Parents at posh private school in New York reel after abuse charges against ex-baseball coach: ‘We are all shocked’

Shocked parents at an elite private school in Brooklyn were reeling Friday sickening accusations that the former baseball coach preyed on young boys – when the accused child molester was released on bail.

The arrest of Nicolas Morton, 31, on a 20-count sex crimes indictment on Thursday exposed allegations that had been the subject of months of rumor and speculation at the $60,000-a-year K-12 Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights .

“It’s horrible,” the mother of a fifth-grade Packer girl told The Post Friday morning. “We are all shocked.”

It also raised questions among some families about whether there had been adequate supervision of Morton, who posted bail of $75,000 cash or $150,000 surety after pleading not guilty to a slew of sex crimes charges, court records show.

“Honestly, I don’t know what the school did,” the mother said.

Another Packer parent told The Post they feared Morton’s storied past as a baseball phenom at the school was giving the administration a false sense of security.

Morton, an alumnus, may not even have been “properly monitored” because of his stellar reputation as an athlete, and was “alone with the kids,” the parent said.

“The vetting of him and his organization was not as rigorous as it would have been had he been an outsider,” the parent accused.

Prosecutors said Morton allegedly groomed and sexually abused seven boys between the ages of 12 and 14 who played on his private traveling baseball team, which consisted of a mix of Packer and non-Packer students.

According to prosecutors, he forced the boys to expose themselves, peppered them with inappropriate talk about masturbation and touched the genitals of three players.

The second parent said they believed there were another handful of students who were allegedly targeted by Morton but who were not included in the indictment due to the statute of limitations.

They also believed that there were students who had not yet processed the experience enough to take legal action.

“It’s very raw for them,” the parent said.

Morton worked in the school’s admissions office while coaching the school’s varsity baseball team until August, when administrators emailed parents that he had been fired. The Post reported this earlier.

A father who dropped off his son at Packer on Friday was surprised by the allegations against Morton.

“It’s terrible,” he said. “I thought he was a good guy.”

Another Packer mother also said Morton’s alleged perverse abuse was shocking, but she felt the school acted quickly.

“In my opinion, they’ve done a really good job of being very transparent with the parents,” she said.

None of the parents who spoke to The Post wanted to be named — and many were downright hostile when approached by a reporter during the school’s morning episode.

“You’re not doing anyone any favors by being here,” someone raged.

A representative for Packer did not return The Post’s request for comment.

A man who answered the intercom at Morton’s Park Slope apartment — located above a sports bar on Ninth Street — fell silent when a Post reporter asked him for comment. He could not be reached by telephone.

– Additional reporting by Kyle Schnitzer and Dorian Geiger