A Prince George?s administrator was indicted on four separate sex charges for allegedly molesting a 6-year-old male student at school, according to a spokesman for the Prince George?s County state?s attorney.
Shadrick Munro Woods, 40, of Lanham, was released on $50,000 bail this week.
Woods, vice principal at Gaywood Elementary School since September 2006, allegedly watched security cameras to track when students entered bathrooms, according to sources close to the investigation.
Woods allegedly followed boys into the bathroom and molested them, under the guise of helping them tuck in their shirts, sources said.
Suspicion fell upon Woods when a 6-year-old started acting strangely and then came home with a new Game Boy, authorities said.
The toy was thought by investigators to be a bribe from Woods.
Police are awaiting similar reports from other students.
The abuse was said to have occurred between Dec. 15, 2007, and March 10, 2008, when Woods was reassigned to administrative duty outside of the school and away from children, said schools spokesman John White.
A full background check prior to his hiring revealed no criminal history, White said.
Before his position at Gaywood, Woods worked in the Tampa, Fla.-based Hillsborough County Public Schools as a sixth-grade teacher and vice principal, said Linda Cobb, a Hillsborough school system spokeswoman.
In 1998, Cobb said, he was accused of pushing a student against a locker and grabbing his neck, a charge Woods denied.
The school district served him a letter of reprimand, the only stain on his 11-year personnel record with the district, she said.
Woods officially resigned from Hillsborough in June 2007, nine months after taking the new job at Gaywood.
