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January
LAKE PARK FOOTBALL PROBE FOCUSES ON CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER WHO BECAME VOLUNTEER COACH
November 1, 2019
Bob Smith, Robert Sanchez
Daily Herald
Lake Park High School officials have confirmed that their internal probe into the Lancers football program focuses on how a man convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in the early 1990s ended up as a volunteer offensive line coach with this year’s team.
The volunteer coach, Frank J. Battaglia, was charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a girl between the ages of 13 and 16 in 1991 while she was a student at the former Driscoll Catholic High School in Addison.
Court records show Battaglia,