A decorated high school football coach in Maine was forced to resign on Monday after he mistakenly posted a nude photo of himself on Facebook and a local parent spotted it. Click below to read the rest of the story.
Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School coach Paul Withee said he didn’t realize the racy shot, which was meant as a private message to one person, was posted publicly until a half hour after he put it up last week, Maine’s Sun Journal newspaper reported.
He immediately pulled the photo down — but not before an Oxford Hills parent spotted it.
The unidentified parent complained to school officials on Feb. 7.
“I’m embarrassed, I’m ashamed, I’m humiliated,” Withee, 51, told the Sun Journal.
“I’ve never done anything like this before and I never will again,” he said.
School officials said that Withee was not friends with any Oxford Hills students on Facebook, and they are pretty sure the parent was the only one who saw the photo.
Withee was named the varsity football coach at Oxford Hills in March after spending 19 years at Foxcroft Academy, a private school where he won three state championships and seven class championships.
He also taught math and science at Oxford Hills Middle School.
School Superintendent Rick Colpitts called the nude photo leak a mistake.
“There was never any malicious intent. [The photo\] was never intended for the public,” Colpitts told the Sun Journal. “He tried to correct it. I feel badly for him. I wish him well.”
Withee is not expected to face criminal charges.
