TAMPA, Fla. — A former Tampa school administrator won’t spend any time in jail after he was convicted of giving a teen an unwanted foot rub in another state.
10 Investigates has been digging into accusations against Olayinka Alege since 2021. We found documentation of at least eight boys and young men who have reported unwanted foot touching since 2009.
In 2021, Alege was charged with simple assault or battery after a teen reported he asked about his shoes, grabbed his foot, took off his shoe and sock without asking, then rubbed his foot for 30-45 seconds at a gym in Warwick, Rhode Island.
Two more young men came forward saying he did something similar to them at the same gym, but they didn’t want to press charges. At the time, Alege was working as a network superintendent at Providence Public Schools.
He resigned after his arrest.
Alege was convicted during his first trial in 2022 and appealed. His second trial had a hung jury. Last month, he was found guilty in his third trial over this charge.
We’ve now learned he won’t spend any time in jail. A judge has sentenced him to one year of probation and a one-year suspended sentence. That means he won’t serve jail time, but he will be monitored by a probation officer for a year.
He must also do 150 hours of community service and have no contact with the teen.
This case happened in Rhode Island, but Alege has a lengthy work history in Hillsborough County Public Schools.
In 2009, five King High School students reported their assistant principal touched their bare feet when no one else was around. All shared a similar story: Their assistant principal would pop their toes as punishment for bad grades.
Hillsborough County Public Schools told Alege to cut it out and continued to promote him up the educational ladder.
None of those accusations led to criminal charges.