EVANSVILLE, IN – Sexual abuse attorneys at Massillamany Jeter & Carson are actively investigating reports of student sexual abuse in the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation after authorities charged 26-year-old Noah Mikael McBride with multiple felonies for having sex with a 15-year-old girl.
According to media reports, McBride worked as a teacher and track coach at North High School, which is part of the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation, before he was arrested in May 2025.
MJC Partner and sexual abuse attorney Tom Blessing said that “Schools have a duty to exercise reasonable care in the hiring, training and supervision of their employees.”
However, one local media outlet reported that the Indiana Department of Education had no record of issuing McBride a teaching license, which Blessing said raises serious questions about how schools screen applicants for teaching positions. “There are certain categories of school staff who don’t need a teaching license, but it makes you wonder if he even underwent a background check. Did anyone check his references? Who was supposed to supervise him? Schools can’t just allow anyone who walks in the door to have access to children.”
“There are often institutional failures which result in students being sexually abused by teachers and coaches,” Blessing explained. “Sometimes it’s bad policies, sometimes it’s lack of training, sometimes it's failure to screen applicants, sometimes it's inadequate supervision. It’s usually a combination of one or more which enables sexual misconduct in our schools,” Blessing explained.
If you or someone you know has been the victim of sexual abuse at school, please contact our office for a free confidential consultation with one of our Indiana school sexual abuse attorneys.
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View the official Indiana Teacher Licensing database entry here.