A former Franklin High School football coach was sentenced Friday to more than 36 years in state prison for sexually assaulting five boys. Jaime Jimenez, 48, of Los Angeles, was a volunteer coach who assisted the full-time staff. Authorities said that Jimenez’s abuse of young football players at the Highland Park high school stretched as far back as 2002 and that he actively pursued boys from then until his arrest in early 2015. A fixture in the Franklin community, Jimenez knew some of his alleged victims when they were in elementary school; one testified that the abuse began when he was 9. “Teachers and administrators would see him coming and going in (Jimenez’s) car, and they know that is against policy,” he said.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 14, 2017 03:20 UTC