5 Evergreen personnel investigated since 2013

Since 2013, five Evergreen staff members have been investigated for sexual misconduct involving students.

Sadie Pritchard

Sadie Pritchard, 42, was the associate principal at Evergreen High School until her May resignation stemming from accusations of having sex with a student. Pritchard is awaiting trial on three counts of first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor after police say she carried on a relationship with a student over the course of several months.

Police say Pritchard began following the alleged victim on Instagram in October 2017, and offered to help him with homework. The messages eventually turned into “flirtatious comments,” and the two began to exchange nude photographs. The victim also told police Pritchard gave him more than $1,000 over the course of several weeks — though he maintains it wasn’t in exchange for sex or to keep him from telling anyone.

Pritchard was placed on administrative leave with pay in May. She resigned a little more than a week later. She was arrested in June, and her trial is set to begin next month.

Mark Lugliani

Mark Lugliani, 60, is a former substitute teacher arrested and facing trial for charges stemming from allegedly locking a girl with a disability in a closet at Evergreen High School and then sexually assaulting her.

Lugliani allegedly assaulted the student on March 29, according to police records. He asked to meet her again on May 3. That’s when the student reported the abuse to a school counselor, records show. The district removed Lugliani from the substitute roster immediately on learning about the alleged assault.

Lugliani was also a teacher at the Battle Ground school district, where he was placed on administrative leave after grabbing and shouting at a student, and eventually removed from the approved substitute list for calling female students “honey” and “sweetheart.”

His trial is scheduled to begin in January.

Eric Smedsrud

Eric Smedsrud, 43, is a former band teacher at Mountain View High School who was fired after reportedly taking alcohol to a former student with whom he was in a romantic relationship.

Smedsrud was placed on administrative leave in December from Evergreen Public Schools. A subsequent investigation revealed he’d carried on an inappropriate relationship with a student for several months, and he was fired from the district in April 2016.

Smedsrud was never arrested or investigated on criminal charges. He surrendered his teaching certificate on Jan. 22, 2018. He continues to deny he ever crossed boundaries with the student while she was still enrolled at Mountain View High School, saying only that he made a mistake in starting a relationship with her shortly after she graduated.

Matthew Morasch

Matthew Morasch, 43, is a former Evergreen High School physics teacher who was convicted in 2017 of one count of voyeurism and two counts of attempted voyeurism. He tried to take photos up a 14-year-old girl’s dress in his class in 2015, as well as an unidentified woman in a Battle Ground Goodwill store around the same time. He’s currently appealing the conviction.

Records show that several students complained on June 15, 2015, that Morasch was sitting across from a student during the final lab exercise when they spotted him recording video underneath her dress. A student snapped a photo of Morasch and reported him to Principal Lisa Emmerich.

Morasch was placed on administrative leave that day, arrested on June 22, 2015, and then-Superintendent John Deeder reported the incident to the Office of Professional Practices on June 30, 2015.

Stephanie McCrea

Stephanie McCrea, a 39-year-old former Evergreen High School teacher, pleaded guilty to four counts of third-degree rape of a child and one count of tampering with a witness after having sex with a boy in her drama program. She’s serving a five-year sentence and is currently housed at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor.

Records show that on multiple occasions in December 2014 and January 2015, McCrea had sex with a 15-year-old at her home and at Evergreen High School. She also rehearsed with the student what he was to say if he was ever interviewed by law enforcement. The student’s mother reported to school officials that her son had exchanged more than 7,000 text messages with the drama teacher.

McCrea was placed on administrative leave on Jan. 9, 2015, and arrested on Jan. 27, 2015. Deeder reported the incident to the Office of Professional Practices on Jan. 30, 2015.