Pretty damned wimpy of that Supe.
(And I mean damned in earnest here. This is not blasphemy.)
The missing element is the love of God, which in turn is not acting because it is being rejected. Without that comes all kinds of crazy warped loves. And backboneless men.
Yeah - it sounds as though the story is not a lie at all - but rather that the Superintendent was pressured into saying there was no harassment. Also it sounds as though were girls on sports teams threatened if they didn’t keep quiet??
"The love of many shall wax cold."