Volleyball coach,( coach, not a teacher) 22, faces felony charge of having sex with student, 16

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | 1/4/2005 | TOM KERTSCHER

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By TOM KERTSCHER tkertscher@journalsentinel.com Posted: Jan. 4, 2005 Racine - A 22-year-old woman who coached a private volleyball club and briefly coached at a Racine County high school has been charged with having sex with one of her 16-year-old players.

Jennifer L. Bradley of the 6000 block of Leeward Lane in Caledonia was charged with one felony - sexual assault of a student by an instructional staff member, which carries a prison term of up to six years - and five misdemeanors. She made her initial appearance Tuesday in Racine County Circuit Court.

According to a criminal complaint:

Bradley and the boy had a sexual relationship between June 12 and Sept. 4 while she coached a private club that he played for called Next Level Volleyball.

On Aug. 16, Bradley was hired as an assistant girls volleyball coach at Case High School, where the boy attends school and plays volleyball.

Bradley was suspended Sept. 23, after the allegations surfaced, and she has since resigned from her school position, Linda Flashinski, spokeswoman for the Racine Unified School District, said in an interview. She was not a teacher at the school, Flashinski said.

The complaint says the boy's mother told a Racine County sheriff's investigator that Bradley let him use her cell phone, let him drive her car though he was not licensed and let him use her credit card so that he could play poker and make bets on a Web site.

The mother said her son's grades dropped from A's and B's to D's and F's and that he has run away from home at least three times since being confronted about the relationship, the complaint says.

The mother had suspected that her son was having an affair with Bradley after she found a computer message. She thenbegan taping telephone conversations between Bradley and her son, the complaint says.

The boy told a sheriff's investigator that he had had sex with Bradley about five or 10 times.

[Thebaddog]

I googled and got nothing. We'll have to stay vigilant, I bet she's hot.

[LWalk18]

If I am reading the story correctly, the affair starting while she was a coach for a private club and before she got a job in the public school. Don't be so sure this can't happen at a private school.

[anniegetyourgun]

Yep, this is exactly what parents expect when they send their minor kids to school, leaving them in the hands of the responsible professionals.

[Petronski]

LOL


Good one.

[StoneGiant]

"Nice spike!"

[kingsurfer]

Yeh I noticed that. My typing has gone to pot recently.

[NJ_gent]

"16 year old boy, 22 year old woman? Excuse me if I don't seem outraged enough."

California's age of consent is 16. This woman, as per the law, raped a minor. As bad as molesting a pre-teen? Certainly not. Fine and dandy? No.

[TheBigB]

My typing has gone to pot

Just Say No. :-)

[Richard Kimball]

When I was 17 by about three weeks, a 24 year old woman and I had an affair. I'm fifty years old now, and I'm still greatful. There was a thread about another teacher who had sex with a 13 year old boy and that's different. By the time you're sixteen, you know what you're doing, in regards as to whether or not you choose to have sex with someone.

[MikefromOhio]

To the 16 yr old boy: Dude, way to go!!!

To the 22 yr old coach: WTF? Couldnt score with anyone nearly your age?

[pissant]

Here, once again, is the Florida Teacher who is headed to the pokie:

[MikefromOhio]

"...coached a private volleyball club..."

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I don't believe this incident took place in a public school.....

[Petronski]

The boy told a sheriff's investigator that he had had sex with Bradley about five or 10 times.

The kind of sex where one loses count is usually the best kind....or so I've heard.

[speed_addiction]

What is this new phenomenon of women seducing boys? Is it the Mary Kay La Tourneau Syndrome?

This has always been going on. It is just easier to get caught by an email, text message on a phone or something. In almost all of the cases, the young man has never been the one to bring charges or complain (What? You think they are crazy?). They are almost always caught by a parent or someone else. When I was 13, I would have screwed any female on two feet and a skirt. I am not saying this (older female/young male) is in anyway right (though it may be a stroke of amazingly good luck for a teen), but it does not carry the stigma for the victim that it would if she was female. When it happens to a young girl, she gets pointed at. When it happens to a young man, he usually gets high fives.

[MikefromOhio]

I remember when I was 18 I was dating a 27 yr old.....which is an even bigger age difference than this one....

Honestly at 16, I had an idea what I was doing. I might not have known fully, but it was different....

[MikefromOhio]

When it happens to a young man, he usually gets high fives.

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its not right, but LOL anyway :)

[zzen01]

AWW "Pinkie Promise"!

[drjimmy]

Here, once again, is the Florida Teacher who is headed to the pokie

I think it was her involvement with the kid's "pokie" that got her in trouble in the first place.

[MikefromOhio]

WTF?

[KC_Conspirator]

Where were these women when I was growing up?