Sex crime trial set for Whitehall coach

A suspended Whitehall girls basketball coach and teacher has been assigned a trial date of July 15 for a felony sex offense with an underage female student.

[Grant]

The girl was 15 when this happened? And here we are two years later bringing this to someones attention? Something is rotten in Denmark, and if this chick has oral sex "multiple times", little miss innocent was not new to the rodeo by any stretch of the imagination. What he did was wrong, but then theres more to this then what we are being told...mark it and strike it!

[Ryan]

Not that I agree with what he did and we should be prosecuted if guilty, but how come the full extent of the law comes down on male teachers, but we have female teachers having their underage students babies and they just get a "You should not do that".

[Caitlin]

If this 'relationship' began before her freshman year, that means she was 13 or 14. Why are we calling this 'sexual contact','having sex', and 'the relationship'. We should call it what it is -- child molestation, statutory rape, and victimization. An adult does not have a 'relationship' with a child this young. He is a criminal and she is a victim. Why are we mincing words?