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MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Accusations of enactment crimes involving players connected a precocious schoolhouse hoops squad person shaken a tiny community.
A photograph from the Mariposa Gazette Newspaper shows Mariposa County High School boys' hoops caput manager Pierce Chaney.
He was taken into custody for kid maltreatment and failing to study a transgression arsenic a mandated reporter.
As a precocious schoolhouse coach, Chaney is required by instrumentality to study instances of suspected maltreatment oregon neglect of a minor.
Chaney's apprehension follows the arrests of 2 Mariposa County High School Basketball players for aggregate enactment crimes.
The Mariposa County Sheriff's Office said a genitor made a ailment regarding the players being sexually abusive, which prompted an investigation.
"Two juveniles were arrested for a multitude of enactment crimes, but they are superior successful quality that made america beryllium progressive successful the situation," said Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese.
He explains, each transgression is serious, particularly those involving children.
"Mariposa is simply a assemblage that sticks together, that bands unneurotic successful a clip of crisis, and a clip of thing arsenic superior arsenic this," said Sheriff Briese.
The lawsuit is present successful the hands of the District Attorney.
"To person it hap present successful our small community, conscionable is wholly mind-boggling. It blows you away," said District Attorney Walter Wall.
He said helium received the study from the sheriff's bureau connected Tuesday afternoon.
"When radical instrumentality their children to school, to enactment successful sports, they expect those children to beryllium kept safe. They expect those children to person a bully clip and prosecute successful immoderate large carnal activity, bash immoderate contention and live, according to the definite rules, the rules of the basketball. They don't expect their children to beryllium exposed to, transgression activity," said Wall.
The Mariposa County Unified School District Superintendent declined our petition for an on-camera interrogation but sent implicit a connection that says in-part,
"I privation to stress our committedness to prioritizing the information and well-being of our students and staff."
Additionally, the schoolhouse territory is moving intimately with the individuals affected by the intersexual maltreatment allegations.
The territory said each erstwhile boys' hoops coaches person been relieved of their duties.
The District Attorney volition reappraisal the study from the Sheriff's bureau and is expected to marque a determination connected moving guardant with charges for the 2 minors and Chaney.
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