Talk about a week of highs and lows.
Just days after celebrating the new year with the birth of his second daughter — the first baby of 2017 at a Las Vegas hospital — a substitute teacher and football coach at an area high school was arrested for allegedly having inappropriate contact with an 18-year-old female student, according to reports.
Ryan Davis, 29, was arrested Wednesday on charges of two counts of sexual misconduct with a student, three days after he welcomed little Rylin Zyairah Davis as the first baby of 2017 born at Sunrise Children’s Hospital in Las Vegas. The girl’s mother, Joslind Nathan, 23, said she named her daughter — who was born about three weeks early — after her father and was excited to be a “good mom,” she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Clark County School District Police Capt. Kenneth Young said investigators recently learned of two incidents between Davis and an 18-year-old student that allegedly occurred sometime late last year. The incidents did not take place on school grounds, Young said.
Davis, a substitute teacher and assistant football coach at Legacy High School since May 2014, has since been relieved of all duties at the school, LasVegasNow.com reported.
Davis was released from a Clark County jail after posting bail, which was set at $50,000 for each of the two counts, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. It’s not immediately clear whether Davis has hired an attorney.
Some parents at the school said they were stunned by the news.
“It’s just not ethical and he is in charge as a figure in the community,” Kaysi Hanks, whose son, Taylor, is a ninth-grader at the school, told KTNV. “It shouldn’t have happened. He’s an authoritative figure.”
Meanwhile, the newborn and Nathan are expected to leave the hospital on Monday. Prior to Davis’ arrest, Nathan said the only thing that mattered was the health of her daughter, who doctors previously said may have been born with Down syndrome.
“It was a false alarm,” the first-time mother told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Sunday. “She was born healthy; that’s all that really matters.”