[bedolido]

Michelle Smith (right) in a team photo with her coach, Andrew Garver.

[ex-Texan]

Don't think he will be doing any more high school coaching.

[af_vet_1981]

All he had to do (to avoid breaking the law and risk prison) was wait three years for a wife.

[Aaron0617]

Garver also recently withdrew money from a joint account that he shared with his estranged wife, according to police.

AGAIN!!?? Another guy in his late 30s going through a divorce running away with an underage girl.

sigh...well, I'm hoping things turn out okay for her. They usually do, that is when the girls have some previous type of relationship with these morons. He'll probably be captured in CA or Las Vegas like they usually are when the money is spent. Then do his 7 year prison term, unless it's a woman then in that case it's probation.

Yes women...I think I remember at least 2 cases where 2 female teachers ran away with their male high school students to Las Vegas as well.

[thinktwice]

This guy is toast.

Immoral? Maybe.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Lolita. Lo-lit-a. The tongue taking a trip down the pallette to stop at three on t. She was Lol to her friends a school,....

[Frunabulax]

Michelle Smith (right) in a team photo with her coach, Andrew Garver.

OK, who's the genius who thought we couldn't tell which one was the girl and which was the dirty old man?

[Sender]

Well I hope they have a really fun time on their little fling, because both of them are going to be grounded when they get home. What makes these guys think they can get away with this stuff?

[apillar]

When I was in high school (Late 1980's). One of the male teachers married one of his former students about a week after her graduation (she had turned 18 about a month before). He was in his 40's and had divorced his wife earlier in the year.

The funny thing was nothing was ever said or done about it and he kept teaching (still is I think). Even though anybody with a lick of sense knew that to get married a week after graduation they had to have been together during her high school days. The girl had been his teachers "aide" for the previous two years.

[MineralMan]

Based on the photo, it looks like folks were aware of this relationship between the two. They don't seem to be bashful about it.

Sad business.

[dixiechick2000]

The same thing happened on my daughter's high school softball team.

The coach was in his early forties and married to another teacher in that school. The girl was 15, and my daughter's best friend on the team.

They didn't run away together, but did have an affair for, at least, a year. And, for some part of this time, the girl's mother was complaining to school officials. IIRC, the mother found out after the season was over. Still, it took some time for the school to do anything about it.

He was not allowed to coach softball again, but was allowed to keep teaching.

My daughter and I were thoroughly grossed out, which is exactly how I feel today hearing about this every half hour on the news.

[SamKeck]

An almost identical case happened in San Diego County a few years back when a coach and one of his fifteen-year-old female soccer players ran off to Mexico together but then came back to the States to face the music a few days later. Eventually, the coach went to jail on a variety of charges and the girl's parents sued the school district.

[biblewonk]

It's called transgenerational love.

[Pagey]

She's really gushing in that picture.What always stupefies me regarding situations like this, is that you can only so much continuous sex,you do have to work for a living and he's completely given up his right to his freedom once he's through indulging this young girl, and the law nabs him. There's going to be a point in time (w/ out a doubt) where she's going to want to hang out and talk to her friends again. She's 15 for gosh sake. I will not ever understand behavior such as this. Ever.

[NeoCaveman]

Strange happenings in Beavertown, at first I swore this had to be Pennsylvania.

[wideminded]

Maybe it's just the picture, but this girl looks remarkably mature for a 15 year old. She could pass for someone a lot older.

[SassNClass]

After all is said and done, I certaintly hope Miss Jail Bait was worth it. This coach has a daughter. What did he do - walk out on her for this girl? Nice dad.