ReVille Admitted to Abuse in Email to Parents

Accused molester Louis “Skip” ReVille attempted to calm fears about his contact with teenage boys in an email to victims’ families prior to being arrested.

“In this email he appears to make concessions about his own behavior,” said Gregg Meyers, who represents several of ReVille's alleged victims, and who saw the message during the course of his own investigation. “The email itself was probably enough to bring a criminal case against him.”

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The message, which has not been publicly released in its entirety, describes "games that the boys would play" that Reville apparently confessed to participating in, according to a Hanahan Police Department report. Meyers said the email states ReVille encouraged the sexually charged games.

The former fixture in the local youth-sports community wrote in the email that he witnessed and encouraged young men to expose their genitalia as a part of basketball and football games at Moultrie Middle School, Meyers said. The exposure would occur as the young men played the sports. A sort of "flashing game," the email states, according to Meyers. ReVille also encouraged the young men to exchange explicit photos of themselves.

Police won't say if ReVille's own email is what sparked the criminal sex-abuse investigation, but Meyers said the message was sent prior to ReVille being criminally charged. The case has since expanded to three police jurisdictions and involves nearly a dozen teenage victims.

“It looks to me like he got word about a group meeting with parents, and he suspected his own behavior might be the subject of the conversation,” Meyers said. “He sent it trying to explain some of the things he had been doing.”

ReVille, a married father of three and a former private school principal, was on six counts of criminal sexual conduct with three teenage boys. Since that arrest, have been filed and Hanahan police have launched their own investigation. He’s being held on more than $1 million in bond.

Meyers, who litigated the now-infamous Porter-Gaud sex abuse case in the 1990s, has said he would be surprised if ReVille's victim count stays , when all the allegations come forward.

ReVille apparently concedes in the email that his own behavior had gone too far with young men, which he had coached in various programs in the area, Meyers said.

Hanahan police spokesman Lt. John Blackmon said he wasn’t aware of the email and couldn’t comment beyond what was in the preliminary incident report. The agency denied a Patch request for the full report, citing state law that allows exemption to the Freedom of Information Act if releasing information could harm a criminal case if released prior to trial.

Mount Pleasant police spokesman Capt. Stan Gragg also would not comment on the email.

A call Tuesday afternoon to ReVille's attorney Craig Jones seeking comment was not returned. Jones has said previously that his client is cooperating with police, and authorities have confirmed that ReVille has admitted to at least some of the charges.

Meyers said the email reads like an attempt to calm fears and to establish some sort of defense for the allegations that could have been coming forward.

“He said it had gotten out of hand,” Meyers said of ReVille’s email. “It appears it was sent in order to build a first position of deniability, but ultimately that fell apart.”

Since his arrest, ReVille has reportedly confessed to many, if not all, of the criminal charges.

Patch editor Greg Hambrick contributed to this story.