OT - former girls basketball coach pleads not guilty

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

All charges are public, regardless of the crime. Which ones the media, or Mark, chooses to spotlight vary.

I don't think they are necessarily publicized with that goal in mind....just that it makes good ratings for the news outlets.

And I fully agree that a ruined innocent life is not worth a few convictions. And that is the basis of our system. The odds are strongly stacked in favor of the alleged criminal....and many get off (or are back on the streets too early) because we value protecting the innocent over punishing the guilty.

You're right, they're all public, but you never really see front page newspaper articles and nightly news stories about a factory line worker getting charged with check kiting

I have to admit if a coach at my daughter's school was charged with this sort of crime, I'd want to know about it. But aside from the coach/player aspect of this, I don't find it particularly abhorrent for a 22 year old man to have a relationship with a 17 year old.

In a year, if he'd been her coach or boss, it would have simply been an inappropriate work relationship and not a crime. I certainly find it less reprehensible than, say, a 50-something CEO having a relationship with a college-aged intern.

While I certainly think what this guy is alleged to have done is wrong, I do have a problem with calling it a sex-crime.