Michael Moulton said they were just innocent pats on the back, meant as encouragement. But the four students who accused him of touching them back in 2008 disagreed, claiming the “atta-girls” easily cleared the perv threshold. The 56-year-old Morton history teacher was eventually fired and served 20 days in jail after pleading guilty. Which is where this story would have ended had Moulton not just gotten his old job back.
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