Phelps High School Coach Abuses Volleyball Player
A Phelps High School volleyball coach is facing sex-related charges after allegedly having inappropriate sexual contact with one of his 15 year old players. Police have charged Michael Ray Charles, 38, of Pike County with sodomy related to an incident that happened while the team was at a volleyball camp at the University of Kentucky in July. Investigators in Lexington say Charles allegedly spent a night in the UK dorm room with four teenage girls and had sexual contact with one of them.
Bahe Cook Cantley & Jones sexual abuse attorney Larry Jones, who is a member of the National Crime Victims Bar Association and has represented several victims of sexual abuse, says, "This is yet another tragic instance of an adult in a position of trust who has violated a child. This child will forever carry with her the scars of sexual abuse. It is irresponsible for the school to have allowed this coach to spend the night in a dorm room with several teenage girls."
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