Another educated idiot bites the dust. With Gov. Moonbeam’s realignment, he won’t be locked up for two years and may even be dumped out of prison into a county jail from the get-go.
EX-COACH SENTENCED FOR TEEN SEX, FAINTS
By Henry K. Lee
San Francisco Chronicle
March 28, 2013
A former water-polo coach at a San Mateo high school fainted as he was sentenced to two years in state prison for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl who played on his team.
Joshua David Tatro, 26, of El Granada was held up by his attorney Chuck Smith as he was being sentenced Wednesday in a Redwood City courtroom.
"He was standing there and he just started to shake, and I could tell something was wrong," Smith said Thursday. "So I put my arm under his arm and, sure enough, he started to go down and I caught him and gently sat him down. But he got right back up and sat through the remainder of it."
Tatro engaged in sexual activity with a girl on the Aragon High School water polo team from October 2011 to May of last year, investigators said.
The two also exchanged photos of "private body parts" on their cell phones, said Steve Wagstaffe, the San Mateo County district attorney.
School officials learned about the relationship and notified police. At the time of his arrest in June, Tatro had been working for a year at Aragon as a water polo and swim coach.
Tatro pleaded no contest in January to sexual penetration of a girl under 18 and sending pornographic material to a minor with the intent of seduction, both felonies.
A second 17-year-old girl on the water polo team came forward after Tatro was arrested and told police he had asked her to come to his home for sleepovers and movies, Wagstaffe said.
Prosecutors charged Tatro in that case with making sexually inappropriate communications. Although that charge was dropped, Superior Court Judge Mark Forcum was allowed to consider the incidents involving both girls before sentencing Tatro on Wednesday.
Tatro must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life as a result of the charge relating to the sexual photos. Smith said he believed this was unfair, especially because the more serious charge of penetration gives a judge the option of not ordering a defendant to register.
"Because Josh sent a picture of his genitals to her, he has to register," Smith said. "That seems like a punishment way out of proportion to the crime."
1 comment:
Presumably she already had had a petty good view of the subject matter. Other than the fact it is illegal I don't see the big deal. It was, however, incredibly stupid. Then again so is banging your students.
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