Prison time awaits a former H.S. vice principal

Kennebec Journal, May 10, 2008

(excerpt) A former Carrabec High School vice principal and athletic director was ordered Friday to serve nine months behind bars for having unlawful sexual contact with a student while giving the boy a ride home from a basketball game last December.

Frank "Skip" Gleason III, 60, of Anson, pleaded guilty to the offense on Jan. 22. The case had been continued until Friday for sentencing.

The charge and subsequent guilty plea by Gleason, who was a respected school administrator and pastor of a local church, shattered the Anson community, District Attorney Evert Fowle said.

"If we can't trust this individual with the pedigree he had, there's nobody in this society you can trust," Fowle said.

Fowle said Gleason admitted kissing and fondling the boy after being presented with a recorded conversation between him and the victim that occurred the next day. The criminal offense occurred Dec. 21, 2007.