Category Archive for : ‘COACH’

Mario Martis, a 29 year old accused pedophile, slept with at least three elementary-school boys after their principal assigned him as a school volunteer despite knowing about his criminal history with another child.  Sidney Massey, who headed PS 37, knew that Martis had admitted endangering a 12 year old boy in 2000, when he invited him into the East Harlem school three years later.  Massey was removed from the school and reassigned to administrative duty when the new scandal surfaced last year.  Before the probe was complete, he resigned.  Martis’

Police offered a $12,000 reward yesterday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a sexual predator who has struck four times beginning last year.  The suspect is described by police as between 18 and 25 year old, 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-11 and weighing 160 to 180.  His crime wave began at 4:30 p.m. last October 27, when he grabbed a 16 year old girl as she was walking home from a subway station.  He pulled a knife and forced the girl to a nearby rooftop, tied her to a

Lynn Saunders, a 38 year old teacher, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 12 year old girl and was freed with a slap on the wrist.  The girls father exploded at Saunders on June 15, 2005, saying, You stole something personal and precious from my daughter!  Saunders, who worked as a basketball coach at St. Paul’s, a Catholic school in the New Brighton section of Staten Island, had pleaded guilty to sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child in exchange for six years’ probation.  She was charged with

John Lamenzo, a 61 year old softball coach at Bloomfield High School, has been arrested on a voyeurism charge involving a cellphone camera at Buckland Hills mall. He is accused of using the camera to tape women changing clothes in a fitting room and taking pictures up the skirts of women on escalators. He was charged with voyeurism and breach of peace. He was arrested after a woman caught him recording a 16 year old girl while the teenager was changing in a fitting room.

(Manchester, Connecticut)

Drew Sanders, a 49 year old former Staten Island high school basketball coach,  accused of spanking his players for missing shots admitted on September 15 that he crossed the foul line.  The former Tottenville HS assistant varsity boys coach allegedly made at least three of his players, two 15 year olds and one 16 year old, pull down their shorts and underwear, then whacked them, sometimes with a wooden ping-pong paddle.  He pleaded guilty to three counts of forcible touching, a misdemeanor that requires him to register as a sex

David Hiltbrand, a Philadelphia Inquirer feature writer has become the second man to accuse the elite Poly Prep Country Day School of hiding a devastating secret;  the late gridiron coach, Philip Foglietta, is a pedophile who destroyed the lives of at least 12 boys dating to the 1960s.  School officials refused to fire or file charges against him despite complaints he molested students during a his 23-year tenure.  Another former student, John Jay Paggioli, who contends Foglietta repeatedly molested him when he was 12 and 13 in the 1970s, is