The parents of a student-athlete said they were told by school district officials that former Concord High athletic director Bill Haubrich had fully clothed pictures of their daughter linked with pornographic pictures of look-alike women in a slide show on his school-issued laptop computer.

The parent of another student-athlete contacted by school officials said she was told that Haubrich had pictures of her daughter and pornographic look-alikes on his computer. But she said she was given less information about how the two sets of pictures were related.

In the past two weeks, school officials have contacted the parents of "about a dozen" students, school district lawyer Ed Kaplan said yesterday.

Haubrich resigned abruptly Aug. 7, citing family, personal and administrative pressures. At the time, school district officials did not elaborate on the reasons for his resignation. Two days later, Haubrich surrendered his teaching credentials to state education officials. He had worked in the Concord schools for 27 years, serving as a coach, teacher, administrator and, most recently, athletic director.

The parents have not been allowed to see the images. One parent told the Monitor that school officials described them as a slide show in which a benign school photo of their daughter was followed by pornographic images of women who looked like their daughter.

Haubrich has not returned Monitor phone calls. His lawyer, Jim Rosenberg, issued a statement yesterday from Haubrich.

"Immediately when confronted with these allegations, I tendered my resignation to the school," the statement said. "I cooperated in any way that I could with the administration.

"At no time did I have inappropriate contact or communication with any student whatsoever. I apologize to anyone that has been affected by this."

The parents said their first fear was that their daughters' photos had been digitally altered so that the girls' faces were superimposed onto the bodies of naked women. They said school officials assured them that was not the case.

Rosenberg declined to describe the images but also said the two sets of photos hadn't been combined in that way.

"We deny any allegation that there was an overlay of a student image with an inappropriate image," he said.

Until yesterday, school district officials declined to discuss Haubrich's resignation or allegations that he had pornographic images paired with students' photos on his school-issued computer. After the Monitor spoke this week with parents of two of the students involved, Superintendent Chris Rath referred calls to Kaplan.

Kaplan answered some basic questions about the discovery of the images and the district's subsequent investigation but did not cite Haubrich by name. He said district officials discovered inappropriate images on an employee's school-issued laptop in early August. School administrators immediately launched an investigation that took about 10 days, Kaplan said.

When Haubrich resigned, that investigation was still under way.

Once the investigation had "confirmed the facts," Kaplan said administrators decided to reach out to the parents of the students involved, but not to the students themselves. Doing so took another 10 days or so, Kaplan said, because administrators wanted to talk to each set of parents in person.

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