Collins asserts that the account is a fake persona.
In aninflammatory post, they refer to Aisha Mills as mulatto.
Yet the question remained justwhowas behind thefake accountandwhy.
According to Mills, Desiderio had recently been teaching in the district at her childs school.
That was his final post before the administration officially removed him for touching students inappropriately, though not sexually.
We reached out to Desiderio for comment, but he did not respond.
Still, records ofinvestigations and proceedingsinvolving him and the Newburgh school district go back to 2015.
He was finally terminated in 2023, which he claims was retaliation for him being awhistleblower.
He had previously filed a complaint that the district was falsifying the attendance records of student athletes.
This is typical employment law.
Let me cover myself so you cant fire me.
Im gonna say Im a whistleblower kinda thing.
[It] is the most creepy thing Ive ever seen in my life.
He has hundreds of pictures of children.
I dont know whose children these are.
Some of those photos were even at the school their children attend.
His Instagram account appeared racially charged as well.
His profile read: Getting white money, but Im still black.
But is the Daniel Baez account really just afiredteacher trying to get his job back?
Stridiron was even elected board president in 2023 before being ousted.
Shes kind of been a really great get, Mills said.
They did a national search with a firm.
Representation matters to how our young people see the possibility of themselves, she told me.
So, I will never back away from that.
But that wont stop Aisha Mills and Melanie Collins from fighting back.
This is not going to stop, Mills said.
She thinks were coming for her now.
Collins was standing right next to Bousche at the time.
It seems someone has graduated from fake Facebook profiles to fake phone numbers.
Unfortunately, those promises were not kept and the entire district is dealing with the consequences of those actions.
Most recently, he has alleged discrepancies with the districts finances.
He asserts that the new superintendent has ignored these concerns, which is why hes demanding a forensic audit.
However, corruption in the district has hit close to home for Stridiron as well.
As a result, he says the district retaliated by manipulating student records to deny his son valedictorian status.
Additionally, he and his family have faced physical and verbal threats.
I have had nine tires with nails put in them, he told us.
Two carloads full of men come to my house and threaten my wife and sons.
They falsified my oldest sons educational records.
We were forced to sue the district because they violated both my rights and my sons rights.
We filed a lawsuit to make a statement that we were not going to be bullied into silence.
The Newburgh Enlarged City School District declined to comment on this matter.
