The allegations against Ryan Imgrund are outlined in a notice of hearing from the Ontario College of Teachers, a regulatory body for the province’s teaching profession. A disciplinary hearing for Mr. Imgrund will follow. Mr Imgrund did not respond to requests for comment on Friday. He resigned from the college in June. The former teacher described himself as a biostatistician and garnered a large following on social media for his commentary on provincial measures to combat COVID-19. In the notice, Mr. Imgrund is alleged to have molested five female students, with the incidents dating back to September 2016. All five students were on a school team coached by Mr. Imgrund, according to the notice. The college said that between September 2017 and February 2021, Mr Imgrund “engaged in an inappropriate personal relationship” with one of the students. The college said he sent her “numerous” personal messages, took her on long drives, sent shirtless photos of himself and texted her to say “”if you don’t say I’m handsome I’m going to cry” or words to that effect.” When the student stopped responding to his messages, he “shouted, and/or berated her and/or told her that she should be respected and/or otherwise communicated to her that she should continue to have electronic communications with him. ,” the college said. He also sent the other students “numerous personal messages,” the college said. The college alleged that during one-on-one training sessions with three of the students between September 2016 and February 2021, Mr Imgrund used a “technique which required the students to push their buttocks against him”. The college also said that on an out-of-town school trip for a provincial tournament in November 2017, Mr. Imgrund engaged in a “personal group texting conversation” with four of the five students. He “banged on his ceiling/floor when his messages weren’t answered” from his room downstairs, according to the college. He also called students “late at night and/or in the early hours of the morning” when they did not respond to his messages, the college alleged.
