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71-YEAR SEX CRIMES SENTENCE FOR SUN VALLEY AND SAN FERNANDO WRESTLING COACH
October 1, 2019
Josh Cain
Daily News
For nearly two-and-a-half decades, former wrestling coach Terry Gillard used his position as a trusted community member to draw poor and struggling students into wrestling for his teams in San Fernando and Sun Valley.
Once they were in his thrall, joining what he called his inner circle of wrestlers, prosecutors said, Gillard would manipulate his teenage victims into depraved sexual encounters with himself and other students.
To keep them in line, Gillard demanded loyalty, deriding other students as “snitches” who weren’t worthy of his attention, according to the