A York County middle school football coach paid children for nude photos on Snapchat for months — and the school that fired him for being "inappropriate" around students never called the cops.

Craig Day, 28, of Spring Grove, was charged with contacting a minor for the purpose of sexual abuse, unlawful contact with a minor, and corruption of minors after police say he solicited nude pictures and videos from four juveniles between December 2025 and July 2026, according to the Mechanicsburg Patriot News.

Here's the part that should stop every parent cold: Spring Grove Middle School fired Day in 2025 for being "inappropriate around juvenile students and other issues," police said. The school knew something was wrong. The school removed him from the field. Then the school apparently did nothing else. No police report. No warning to parents. No community notification. Day kept his Snapchat account, his Cash App, and his access to children — and he used all three.

According to the affidavit, Day contacted juveniles on Snapchat, starting with requests for shirtless photos framed as monitoring strength training progress. He escalated to pressuring one boy to record himself "streaking" naked in his bedroom. Then came the cash offers. Day paid for nude pictures and videos through Cash App under the alias "Steven Jones," disguising the transactions with notes like "Happy Birthday" and "Fantasy football payment."

One juvenile told police he sent Day nude photos and videos of himself masturbating. Day sent back nudes of himself — including a video of himself masturbating with his face visible. Day tried to meet the boy twice: once to "get naked and go streaking," and once for a Penn State game. Neither meetup happened.

Day wasn't subtle. In a Snapchat group with three juveniles, he recorded himself walking past his phone with his pants down, exposing himself, according to police. One boy screen-recorded it. Another left the group because things were "getting weird." But Day persisted. He contacted that boy on Instagram in July 2026, asked him to reconnect on Snapchat, then requested nudes in exchange for cash and sent a video of his exposed genitals — face again visible. The boy blocked him.

It wasn't a school administrator or a counselor who finally brought this to police. It was a father. In August, a parent went to police after his 14-year-old said Day was trying to get nude photos of students. The father handed over Day's Snapchat username.

A school had enough concern to fire a coach for being inappropriate around children. The system that replaced itself with mandatory reporting protocols and Title IX trainings and DEI certifications apparently couldn't manage the most basic duty — telling parents and police that an adult around their kids had raised red flags. The institution did the minimum to protect itself. It fell to a father to protect the children.

Day's Cash App alias, his Snapchat contacts, his repeated attempts to meet boys alone — all of it continued for months after his firing. The bureaucracy checked a box. The predator kept operating. And the community institutions that once would have made this man's name known to every family in town were replaced, long ago, by procedures that protect the institution first and children somewhere down the list.