MASHPEE, Mass. – A Massachusetts superintendent is the subject of a police investigation after the mother of a student alleges he barged into their home and went through her daughter’s things.

Marilyn King alleges Mashpee schools superintendent Brian Hyde arrived at her home Tuesday morning escorted by a police cruiser and demanded to know where her daughter slept, and to see if her clothes were in the home, the Cape Cod Times reports.

The visit was the culmination of a residency dispute between the family and the school district. King told the news site she had been attempting to re-enroll her 17-year-old daughter Isabel in Mashpee High School after living in Florida. King said Hyde was apparently upset because she had discussed her difficulties in enrolling Isabel with a Cape Cod Times reporter.

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“I felt so helpless, harassed and violated,” King said, adding that Hyde went through Isabell’s things in an upstairs bedroom while the police officer waited outside. “I was so upset. I said, ‘We’re not doing anything wrong.’”

Nurse contractor Malee Tratt told the Times she was at the King home when Hyde arrived and he “just walked right past the grandmother” who opened the door.

Tratt said Hyde went directly upstairs to Isabel’s room and she could hear him going through dresser drawers.

“I’ve never seen a school go to this length because a child is in school,” she said.

King said Isabell attended Mashpee schools from fourth grade through last November. King divorced and moved to Florida with Isabel. The teen finished her junior year at another school with the aim of re-enrolling at Mashpee High School this year, which King had been attempting to do since May, the Times reports.

King alleges Mashpee officials would not allow Isabell to re-enroll because she didn’t meet residency requirements, despite a purchase agreement for a home in the district – the home Hyde allegedly ransacked. When King closed on the house Tuesday, Isabel went to the school with proof of the home sale to again attempt to enroll, but came home in tears, the mother said.

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According to the Times:

The teen drove herself to school at around 7:10 a.m. Tuesday, but shortly afterward, King said, she got a call from Hyde, who she said complained that Isabel was late for her first day.

“I said, ‘I think she’s just there to finalize the enrollment,’” King said. Hyde said Isabel had no right to be at school if she was not enrolled, King said.

She said Hyde also asked her if she had called the Cape Cod Times to complain about the difficulty she was experiencing re-enrolling her daughter.

“I said, ‘Yes, that’s true. I’m very upset. I’ve been going back and forth to school with no result,’” King said. “He’s mad. I can feel it.”

King said a guidance counselor called shortly after to arrange a meeting for Wednesday, which she happily agreed to. She said Hyde showed up at her door seconds later. King alleges Hyde told her “I need to see if she lives here. I need to see where her bedroom is. And I want to see the clothes.”

“And he went upstairs,” King said. “I was shocked. I was dumbfounded.”

Hyde would not discuss the case with the Cape Cod Times. Instead, he issued a statement, published in full by Cape Cod Today, in which he denies the trespassing allegations and claims the stop was a routine home visit.

“Contrary to published reports, I did not enter the home uninvited,” King wrote in the prepared statement. “I was invited into the house and asked to view a room identified as the student’s bedroom. There was no bed and the room did not appear to me to be occupied. I did not enter the room although I was invited to do so. I then asked if our School Resource Officer could enter. The mother of the student agreed.

“After further brief discussion we left the premises,” he continued. “Our whole visit lasted approximately five minutes.”

Hyde also pointed out that Isabel is now attending classes and “any remaining issues have been resolved.”

Mashpee Police Chief Scott Carline said School Resource Officer William Cuozzo went with Hyde to the home but stayed in the car. King said her daughter had not yet finished moving her things into her new bedroom.

Carline said “any remaining issues” likely are not resolved.

“I don’t have a criminal complaint yet, although I do anticipate one,” Carline told the Times. “We’ll do a full and thorough investigation as to what happened.”