Post NYC Private School Parents Shocked by Abuse Accusations Against Former Baseball Coach: ‘We’re All Shocked’

On Friday, shocked parents at an elite private school in Brooklyn were left reeling disgusting allegations that her former baseball coach preyed on young boys after an accused child molester was released on bail.

The arrest Thursday of 31-year-old Nicolas Morton on 20 counts of sex crimes uncovered allegations that had been the subject of months of rumors and speculation at the $60,000-a-year K-12 Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights.

“It’s terrible,” the mother of a Packer fifth-grader told The Post on Friday morning. “We are all shocked.”

It also raised questions among some families about whether there was sufficient supervision for Morton, who posted bail of $75,000 cash or $150,000 bond after pleading not guilty to numerous sex crime charges, according to court records.

“Honestly, I don’t know what the school did,” the mother said.

Another Packer parent told The Post he feared Morton’s storied past as a baseball phenom at the school gave authorities a false sense of security.

Morton, a graduate student, may not have even been “properly supervised” because of his stellar reputation as an athlete and was “alone with the children,” the parent said.

“The vetting of him and his organization was not as rigorous as it could have been had he been an outsider,” the parent charged.

Prosecutors said Morton allegedly groomed and sexually abused seven boys, ages 12 to 14, who played on his private traveling baseball team, made up of both Packer and non-Packer students.

According to prosecutors, he allegedly forced the boys to expose themselves, bombarded them with inappropriate conversations about masturbation and groped the genitals of three players.

The second parent said he believed Morton was targeted by several more students, but they were not charged due to the statute of limitations.

They also believed that there were students who had not yet become familiar with the experience enough to initiate legal action.

“It’s very hard on them,” the parent said.

Morton worked in the school’s admissions office, coaching the school’s baseball team, until August, when administrators emailed parents saying he had been fired. The Post reported this earlier.

One dad dropping off his son at Packer Friday was surprised by the accusations against Morton.

“It’s terrible,” he said. “I thought he was a good guy.”

Another Packer mother also said Morton’s alleged perverted abuse was shocking, but she said the school responded quickly.

“I think they did a very good job of being transparent with parents,” she said.

None of the parents interviewed by The Post wanted to be named, and many were downright hostile when approached by a reporter while dropping off their child at school in the morning.

“You’re not doing anyone any favors by coming here,” one of them fumed.

A representative for Packer did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.

The man who answered the doorbell at Morton’s Park Slope apartment – located above a sports bar on Ninth Street – fell silent when a Post reporter asked him for comment. He could not be reached by phone.

– Additional reporting by Kyle Schnitzer and Dorian Geiger