Police: Timberlane teacher was fired twice before arrest [View all]

PLAISTOW — A Timberlane Regional School District official only contacted David Russell’s former employers after his recent arrest for assaulting a 15-year-old girl in his math class — not during the hiring process — new police documents explain.

Human Resources Director Dana O’Gara told investigators it was then she learned he was let go from two nearby school districts for inappropriate touching.

The Nashua School District reported, “Russell was let go due to touching young female students and thinking it was OK to give them therapeutic massages.”

North Andover schools “also let him go for touching,” the police report reads. He taught there for 23 years.

North Andover Superintendent Gregg Gillian said Russell was hired in 1993 and taught health for a year, then science until 1996, math from 1996 to 2009, and physical education from 2009 to 2016.

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