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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A former Santa Clarita charter
school basketball coach was sentenced to nearly 17 years and
eight months behind bars in a case involving the sexual
molestation of six boys.
During the sentencing, Randolph Jackson looked straight forward
as victims' family members read tearful and emotional impact
statements, addressing Jackson directly.
Several of the letters addressed Jackson as "Randy," describing
how they invited him in their homes when he first started as a
basketball coach at Albert Einstein Academy.
Parents spoke about how their teenage boys suffered nightmares
and terrors since that abuse. Siblings described how it affected
their relationships.
One family member read a letter written by one of Jackson's
victims, describing how the abuse affected his life.
That letter read, in part:
"I saw my relationships with everyone in my family dying. I was
convinced for years that my best friends hated me, and forever I
won't know if what you told me they said about me was ever true.
It felt like not only did you molest me as much as you wanted
for your personal pleasure, but you wanted me to break down as a
person to the point of suicide so nobody could ever know the
truth."
Back in May, Jackson pleaded no contest to nine counts,
including one felony count each of continuous sexual abuse, oral
copulation of a person under 16 and a lewd act on a child.
The charges involved six boys between the ages of 13 and 17
between November 2010 and January 2015.
Jackson met the boys while working as a basketball coach at
Albert Einstein Academy, a public charter school in Santa
Clarita, and another school. The Los Angeles County District
Attorney's Office declined to name the second school.
In addition to prison time, Jackson was also ordered to register
as a sex offender for the rest of his life. The judge also
barred him from contacting any of the victims for 10 years.
Jackson had been suspended as a coach at the academy prior to
his arrest on Feb. 18, 2015, in Washington, D.C. He has remained
behind bars since then.
http://abc7.com/news/ex-santa-clarita-coach-sentenced-in-molest- case-of-6-boys/1408925/
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