Former Moore Catholic gym teacher Megan Mahoney arrested on rape charges, police say

By Maura Grunlund
Staten Island Advance
October 21, 2014

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Megan Mahoney, a former gym teacher and coach at Moore Catholic High School, has been arrested and accused of statutory rape.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Megan Mahoney, a former Moore Catholic High School gym teacher and assistant basketball coach, has been arrested and is facing rape and other charges in connection with an affair she allegedly had with a student, according to an NYPD spokesman.

She was arrested on Monday morning and faces charges of rape in the third-degree, criminal sexual act in the third-degree and endangering the welfare of a child, the spokesman said.

Ms. Mahoney, who resigned from Moore in January, is alleged to have had sex repeatedly with a 16-year-old male student while employed by the Graniteville school.

She was released without bail, according to a report by the New York Post.

Ms. Mahoney is one of two former female basketball coaches at Moore Catholic who have been reported in the New York Post and other media of having sexual relationships with students.

Richard Postiglione, who has been accused of inappropriate behavior with a former staffer, stepped down as Moore Catholic's athletic director and girls' varsity basketball coach, but remains the school's director of finance and operations, according to a letter sent to Moore Catholic parents earlier in October.

Postiglione's career change-- that a source said was due to health reasons-- happened a little more than a month after reports surfaced in the media of the alleged misconduct by the female coaches. Postiglione supposedly knew but failed to report those incidents to authorities.

An Advance All-Star, Ms. Mahoney was a stand-out basketball player at Wagner College and St. Peter's Girls High School.