A volunteer assistant girls HS basketball coach (a 22 year old female) has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a 15 year old girl and giving her marijuana. The coach was also a paid track coach last season, but her contract was not renewed. A pretrial conference is set for next week.
This coach helped with a local summer league for a few years and was fairly active in coaching local rec teams. I have worked games involving her teams from time to time.
Also - the girls head basketball coach at the school has been suspended by the school administration "pending an investigation". The school refused to say if the investigation was related in any way to the arrest of the assistant.
This is my local HS where all three of my kids went. My younger daughter had the head coach as a health teacher and I know him very well. It would be absolutely mind-blowing to me if he had even the slightest involvement in the other case. He is very well respected around here and had always seemed to me to be a great guy.
I guess we'll see what happens.
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