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http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/04/20/20060420-B2-00.html
Dublin coach, volunteer accused of misconduct
Allegations stem from Coffman lacrosse team’s trip to Tennessee
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Mary C . Bridgman
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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An assistant varsity boys lacrosse coach at Dublin Coffman High School and an adult volunteer coach have been accused of inappropriate behavior involving a player during a team trip to Tennessee last month, school officials said yesterday.
Dustin Pentz, 25, the assistant coach, was placed on paid leave today, as was head coach Brian Simpson, 30, until the investigation is completed, district spokesman Doug Baker said.
Greg Simpson, Frank Simpson and Andrew Elmer were dismissed from their volunteer coaching jobs and are not permitted on school grounds until the investigation is competed, Baker said.
He would not identify which of the three volunteer coaches is being investigated with Pentz.
The varsity team, which has a 6-2 record, is being coached for the time by junior varsity coach Marc Carlson. Its last scheduled game is May 19.
Police in Tennessee will investigate the complaint, said Cristie Keller-Wilt, a spokeswoman for the city of Dublin.
Brian Simpson has been head coach at Coffman for two years but has coached in the district for a decade.
His brother, Greg Simpson, was a first-year assistant, as was Elmer. Frank Simpson, a third brother, had been an assistant for three years.
School officials and Dublin police would not give details but said they learned of the complaint on Tuesday when a player spoke to police.
The incident occurred during spring break in late March.
The team’s schedule indicates it played two schools in the Memphis, Tenn., area March 27-28.
Telephone messages left at the homes of the Dublin Coffman coaches yesterday were not returned, except at Pentz’s home where someone hung up when a reporter called.
Tuesday night, Dublin Coffman Principal Tracey Miller met with about 75 parents of lacrosse players and assured them the complaint would be investigated.
Kathy Dougherty, a parent of a player, said she was reassured by Miller’s remarks, but declined to say more.
"We want to protect the privacy of these students," she said.
Another player’s mother, who declined to give her name so her son would not be identified, said a lot of families are worried.
"We’re all kind of sick, just waiting and not knowing what’s going to happen," she said.
Dispatch reporter Dean Narciso contributed to this story.
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just saw an update on the news and decided to post this from todays paper
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/04/25/20060425-D3-02.html
Coach blames players for police investigation
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Mary C . Bridgman
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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Dublin police investigating a case involving a high-school lacrosse player are trying to determine if allegations of sexual assault amounted to hazing or a crime.
A police report and an e-mail written by Dublin Coffman High School’s varsity lacrosse coach offer different interpretations of what happened in Memphis, Tenn., where the team competed March 27-28.
Coach Brian Simpson told junior-varsity lacrosse coach Marc Carlson in the e-mail that Simpson and his father were on the bus when the event occurred.
"That is what baffles us," he wrote. "If this was such a big problem, why didn’t (the player) say something then to the other coaches? "
Both Simpson and his assistant, Dustin Pentz, are on paid leave pending the outcome of the investigation. Also, three volunteer coaches are not permitted on school property.
Pentz and one of the volunteers were identified as being involved in the case, according to police.
No one has been charged, and police did not identify the volunteer coach suspected of having been involved.
Simpson said in his e-mail that the allegations come from "a few angry young men (players) that either dislike the coaching staff or aren’t getting any playing time and resent us."
Dublin Superintendent Linda Fenner characterized the event as "an extreme form of hazing" in an e-mail last week to the school board.
Allegations began to unfold April 17 after parents told school officials of the event.
Before that night’s game, a school official asked the team if anyone "had fingers shoved up their rectum" during the Memphis trip. One player raised his hand and four or five players said they had witnessed the incident, according to the police report.
The players told police that before the event there was some discussion "between the parties about the glove and not being a believer in the glove."
One coach then held a player down while another, wearing a black glove, inserted his hand into the player’s boxer shorts. The boy was screaming, "Get the (expletive) off of me, leave me alone," the report says.
The event took 20 to 30 seconds, the report says. Players described their teammate as having a "shocked look, ghostly white face." But attorney Karl Schneider, who represents Pentz, said the reports are embellished.
"It’s horseplay. It’s guys being guys."
The incident occurred after dinner during a bus trip to the Memphis hotel where the team was staying.
"It was so light-hearted," Simpson wrote in his e-mail, "that the kids broke into the coaches’ (hotel) room that night and retaliated with a glove on. Everyone thought that was funny! "
Simpson, who has not returned messages seeking comment, did not describe exactly how the players "retaliated."
The police report stated that the players were pushed out of the room.
Simpson said he plans to continue to defend himself and his coaches.
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Things sure have changed in the 10 years since I've been out of high school. There was a similar incident not too long ago in West Chester where a couple boys stuck a pencil up another's ass on the school bus. What is this sick fascination about today?
 
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coxew said:
There was a similar incident not too long ago in West Chester where a couple boys stuck a pencil up another's ass on the school bus.
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http://dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=182062
Dublin Coffman fires lacrosse coach, assistant
The Columbus Dispatch
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:42 AM
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</td></tr> <tr><td class="credit" width="200">CHRIS PARKER | THISWEEK NEWS</td></tr> <tr><td class="cutline" width="200">Dublin Coffman fired varsity lacrosse coach Brian Simpson, pictured here last year, for failing to report an alleged sexual assault to a team member during a team trip last month. </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr> </tbody></table>
The Dublin Coffman High School varsity lacrosse coach and his assistant, who is accused by players of sexually assaulting a teammate, were fired Tuesday night. Brian Simpson and his assistant, Dustin Pentz, had been on paid administrative leave since last week when allegations surfaced that Pentz had inserted his gloved hand into a player's rectum during a bus trip in Memphis, Tenn.
"The facts in this situation clearly warrant the termination of the contracts of both coaches," Dublin school board President Chris Valentine said. "This is a very difficult situation and our district will do everything in its power to ensure this type of alleged incident does not repeat itself."
The board voted unanimously to fire both men.
Board members said Simpson failed to supervise, or investigate and report the incident to district authorities.
After a four-hour executive session, they said he was fired for inefficiency, neglect of duty, misfeasance and/or malfeasance.
In a second resolution, the board said Pentz exhibited immoral conduct, neglect of duty and inefficiency.
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http://dispatch.com/dispatch/content/local_news/stories/2007/03/23/lacrosse.html

Ex-player sues Dublin schools, lacrosse coaches over sexual assault

Friday, March 23, 2007 5:29 PM
By Simone Sebastian


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


A former Dublin Coffman lacrosse player has filed a civil lawsuit against his former coaches and the Dublin school district for a sexual assault he says occurred during a team trip to Tennessee. The lawsuit says school officials did not conduct proper background checks on one or more of the coaches and hired former Assistant Coach Dustin Pentz despite knowledge that he had a “propensity ... for aberrant and inappropriate behavior.”
The former athlete and his mother are seeking at least $25,000 in emotional and physical damages.
The lawsuit filed yesterday in Delaware County Common Pleas Court is assigned to Judge W. Duncan Whitney.
In addition to Pentz, four other former Dublin coaches are named as defendants: assistant coaches Greg Simpson, Frank Simpson and Andrew Elmer; and head coach Brian Simpson.
The Dublin school district fired all the coaches last spring after learning of the allegations.
Frank Simpson is the father of Brian and Greg Simpson.
The athlete, who is now 19 and a student at Ohio University, told authorities that Greg Simpson held him down while Pentz inserted fingers into his rectum during a team trip to Memphis in March 2006.
Each of the them is facing a rape charge in Memphis that carries up to 60 years in prison.
In February, a judge fined Frank Simpson $1,000 for pressuring the athlete to retract his claim during a locker-room team meeting.
Brian Simpson was acquitted of the same witness-intimidation charge.
The Dispatch is not naming the former student or his mother because the paper typically does not identify people who say they've been sexually victimized.
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Pentz and Simpson were part of a whole culture that was all over Scioto when we were in high school. I don't know about this glove ritual, but I do know that the alot of the football guys were always the type of guys that did un-heterosexual things all the time - alot of weird touching and peeing on each other in the shower.

Pentz was a good kid, its unfortunate - and really scary - that he and Greg Simpson couldn't see the difference between being a high schooler and coaching them. From what I've heard, both of them were still way too involved in the high school world up until very recently.

15-60 years in a Tennessee prison is not a good thing.
 
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The Columbus Dispatch : Ex-lacrosse coaches plead guilty to lesser charge in rape case

Ex-lacrosse coaches plead guilty to lesser charge in rape case

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:36 AM
By Charlie Boss


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Two former Dublin Coffman High School lacrosse coaches pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault charges Monday for attacking a player during a team trip to Tennessee in 2006.
Felony aggravated rape and misdemeanor assault against Dustin Pentz, 27, and Greg Simpson, 29, were dismissed. The case is being handled in Shelby County Criminal Court in Memphis.
The player, now a student at Ohio University, says Simpson held him down on a charter bus while Pentz inserted gloved fingers into his rectum.
Pentz and Simpson are due back in court Oct. 1.
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greg simpson played football at ohio state correct?
 
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But attorney Karl Schneider, who represents Pentz, said the reports are embellished.
"It's horseplay. It's guys being guys."

Guys being guys...sticking their fingers up each other's asses. :rofl:
 
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If sticking your finger in a screaming high school boy's rectum is wrong....

(Someone had to say it, what took so long? :()

This is bad news, though. Sometimes I don't understand people, and this is one of those situations. Pretty sick..
 
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