NEEDHAM (MA)
Needham Times
By Amanda McGregor / Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
The Natick High School hockey coach embroiled in a sex abuse scandal spent seven years teaching and coaching at St. Sebastian's School in the 1980s, and an allegation has since arisen that he may have engaged in inappropriate behavior while at the Needham school.
Joseph B. Doyle, 44, worked as a hockey coach and social studies teacher at the private Catholic school on Greendale Avenue from 1981 to 1988. He is free on bail awaiting trial in New Hampshire for attempted sexual assault after allegedly exchanging explicit e-mails and arranging a meeting for sex with an undercover New Hampshire police detective posing as a 14-year-old boy.
A former St. Sebastian's student of Doyle's told the Boston Herald last week that he warned St. Sebastian's School officials two decades ago that Doyle was drinking with students, buying them beer and, on at least one occasion, showering with his hockey squad.
"I complained to St. Sebastian's, and they never did anything," the student, a member of the class of 1982, was quoted as saying.
