A criminal complaint first reported by Manhattan-based WABC and the New York Post alleged that Claassen enrolled at Westchester Square academy on 13 April while claiming her name was Shamara Rashad and that her date of birth was in 2010. Claassen also allegedly told Westchester Square's principal that she had just moved from Ohio, but police said her ruse fell apart when the school director confronted her with a social media page revealing her true age and identity.
The first victim went in for her regular physical when Remeus conducted a medical examination and allegedly squeezed her breasts without her consent and placed his knee in between her legs, touching her genitals with his knee over her clothes before taking her hand and placing it on his penis, according to the criminal complaint, which alleges Remeus did the exact same thing to another woman a short while later.