Post-New York City Private School Parents Stunned by Sexual Abuse Charges Against Former Baseball Coach: ‘We’re All Shocked’

Shocked parents at an elite Brooklyn private school were stunned Friday by disgusting charges that his former baseball coach took advantage of young children, since the accused of molesting minors was released on bail.

The arrest of Nicolas Morton, 31, on 20 counts of sex crimes Thursday laid bare 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-grade girl told the Post Friday morning. “We are all shocked.”

It also raised questions among some families about whether there had been enough supervision of Morton, who posted bail, set at $75,000 cash or $150,000, after he pleaded not guilty to a series of sex crime charges, court records show.

“To be honest, I don’t know what the school has done,” the mother said.

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

Morton, a former student, may not have even been “properly supervised” because of his excellent reputation as an athlete, and was “alone with the kids,” the father said.

“The background investigation on him and his organization was not as rigorous as it could have been if he were an outsider,” the father charged.

Prosecutors said Morton allegedly groomed and sexually abused seven boys between the ages of 12 and 14 who played on his private traveling baseball team, which consisted of a mix of Packer and non-Packer students.

He allegedly forced the boys to expose themselves, peppered them with inappropriate conversations about masturbation and touched the genitals of three of those players, according to prosecutors.

The second parent said he believed there were a handful of other students who were allegedly attacked by Morton, but who were not included in the indictment because of the statute of limitations.

They also believed there were students who had not yet come to terms with the experience enough to take legal action.

“It’s very raw for them,” the father said.

Morton worked in the school’s admissions office while coaching the school’s varsity baseball team, until August, when administrators sent an email to parents informing them that he had been fired. The Post previously reported.

A father who dropped his son off at Packer on Friday was shocked by the allegations 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 felt the school acted quickly.

“In my opinion, they did a very good job of being very transparent with parents,” he said.

None of the parents who spoke to The Post wanted to be named, and many were openly hostile when approached by a reporter during the morning return to school.

“You’re not doing anyone a service by being here,” one roared.

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

A man who answered the intercom at Morton’s Park Slope apartment, located above a Ninth Street sports bar, fell silent when a Post reporter contacted him for comment. He could not be reached by phone.

—Additional reporting by Kyle Schnitzer and Dorian Geiger