Jamaica News

A high school football coach, who allegedly fondled the genitals of a 14 year old boy three years ago, appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on Friday (December 11), where he was offered bail in the sum of $200,000. He was offered bail on condition that he surrender his travel documents and report to the Duhaney Park Police Station on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. A stop order has also been placed on him at all ports.

Allegations are that the accused, while employed to a Kingston high school as a coach/student warden, approached the boy’s mother and expressed and interest in having him play for the school’s football team. The boy attended a different school at the time, but the woman allowed her son to attend a residential football camp that was being hosted by the accused. However, on the day in question, it is alleged that the boy was asleep, but awakened by the touch of someone’s hand on his genitals. The boy reportedly protested, but the coach allegedly told him to not say anything and to continue watching television. The coach is then said to have continued fondling the boy’s penis until he ejaculated, and then ordered the boy to fondle his (the coach’s) penis.

The boy did not tell anyone about the incident, and in September of the year he was enrolled in the high school where the accused was the coach. It’s allegedly that the accused then made further advances toward the boy, who told a teacher about the sexual acts that the accused told him that he wanted him to perform with other men. In October 2009, the boy eventually told his mother about the incident, and a report was made at the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse, and the accused was arrested and charged with indecent assault.

He is to return to court for trial on January 2, 2010.