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Former softball coach pleads guilty to soliciting sexually explicit material from members of team Date published: 6/6/2008
BY FRANK DELANO A former coach at Washington & Lee High School has pleaded guilty to four felony counts of soliciting sexually explicit material from members of a girls' softball team last year. At a hearing Tuesday in Westmoreland County Circuit Court, Melvin Antonio Smith III, 21, also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of attempting to have sex with a child 15 years or older. In a plea agreement, Smith's attorney, Vinceretta T. Chiles of Richmond, and Westmoreland Commonwealth's Attorney Dean J. Atkins recommended that the court sentence Smith to 41 years in prison with all but 18 months suspended. The agreement also stipulates that Smith, who lived at Dunnsville in Essex County, register as a violent sex offender and avoid contact with his victims or their families. In return for the guilty pleas, Atkins agreed not to prosecute seven other felony charges and one other misdemeanor count against Smith. Smith will be sentenced July 16 by Circuit Judge Joseph E. Spruill Jr. On July 14, Smith is scheduled to be tried in Richmond County Circuit Court on four felony charges of carnal knowledge of one of the players on the team, animate object penetration and taking indecent liberties. Smith served for about a month last year as a volunteer softball coach at the school in Montross. Frank Delano: 804/333-3834
anyone who is a teacher should know coming in they are dealing with serious trust issues, more so than USUAL...pullleeeze....fry him...cut his balls off
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