B.C. principal banned from teaching after explicit messages to person posing as a teenager

The former head of a B.C. private school has netted a 15-year ban from teaching for sending sexually explicit messages to – and trying to meet up with — a person he believed to be a 15-year old boy.

A consent resolution agreement posted by the B.C. Teacher Regulation Branch says Mark Louis Pierotti first messaged the person on the dating app Grindr in late August 2022.

The person behind the account listed their age as 21, but was posing as a young male in order to lure sexual predators, a tactic commonly employed by people who term themselves “creep catchers.”

The consent resolution agreement says Pierotti messaged the person to invite them over for a drink, at

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