Victoria E. Freile and Gary Craig – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle USA TODAY NETWORK – in the D&C on 10/26/22 on page A2
A jury Monday determined that former Hilton Central School District principal Kirk Ashton sexually abused 21 young boys on school grounds.
The number of victims in the criminal case made this one of Monroe County’s worst cases of sexual abuse in recent memory, and the revelations that Ashton’s actions had gone unreported for years in an elementary school angered parents.
The jury Monday convicted Ashton of 46 counts — eleven counts of sexual abuse in the first degree, 17 counts of course of sexual conduct against a child and 18 counts of endangering the welfare of a child.