Ex-superintendent pleads guilty to indecent assault
Nearly a week after being found guilty in a jury trial of inappropriately touching a female employee, the former superintendent of Everett schools has pleaded guilty to inappropriately touching two more former staffers.
Frederick Foresteire, 79, of Everett, was found guilty Feb. 9 following a three-day trial in Malden
District Court of two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14. On Wednesday, he entered guilty pleas to two more counts of the same for inappropriately touching two other women.
“The defendant in this case used his position of power to victimize one of his employees, assaulting her and repeatedly making her feel unsafe, uncomfortable and powerless at her place of employment,” said Middlesex
DA Marian Ryan in a statement following the earlier jury trial.
In the jury trial, Foresteire was found guilty of inappropriately touching a 41-year-old woman who worked with him at the Everett Public School Administration Building. The touching occurred multiple times between 2017 and 2018.
Following the trial, Judge Emily Karstetter sentenced Foresteire to 18 months in state prison, of which he will have to serve 90 days before entering two years of probation. He was also ordered to stay away from all his victims and witnesses in the case and to stay away from Everett public schools and their events. He will have to register as a sex offender.
Karstetter on Wednesday accepted the additional guilty pleas, in which Foresteire admitted to additionally indecently assaulting two other women he supervised in 2015, one a 47-year-old woman and the other a then-64-yearold woman.
Foresteire became superintendent of the district in 1989, according to previous Herald reporting, and had served in that position for roughly 30 years before being placed on administrative leave, and then formally retiring, in December 2018 as an investigation was conducted into the allegations of indecent assault and battery on three of his employees.