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Missed red flags kept predators in Clark County schools

Records show Evergreen, Battle Ground districts failed to protect students from abusive personnel

By Katie Gillespie, Columbian Education Reporter
Published: November 18, 2018, 6:05am
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Sadie Pritchard Former associate principal at Evergreen High School awaiting trial on three counts of first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor
Sadie Pritchard Former associate principal at Evergreen High School awaiting trial on three counts of first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor Photo Gallery

Five years before her arrest, Evergreen Public Schools officials knew that an associate principal had been interacting with students in ways that “undoubtedly could be perceived as ‘grooming’ behavior.”

In 2013, Sadie Pritchard admitted to former human resources director Bruce Nashif that she was talking to students on her private cellphone, and giving them money and gift cards.

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