Youth Coach Charged With Aggravated Sexual Contact With 13-Year-Old Girl
MAYS LANDING, N.J., (CBS) -- A youth coach is behind bars on Tuesday. Multiple police departments are investigating along with the Department of Children and Families.
On Saturday morning, it was all trophies and pizza for youth coach, Sinclair Ceasar. Now, he's in Atlantic County jail and just a quick search of his criminal history, you would find at least one event that would make parents say he should not have been around kids.
Parents in Mullica Township say Ceasar, 52, has been involved in coaching youth sports for several years.
Just Saturday morning, he coached a boys four and five-year-old basketball game at the Mullica Township School. Later that day, police say he exchanged his clipboard for handcuffs.
He was arrested by Hamilton Township Police on the charge of aggravated sexual contact with a 13-year-old girl. It turns out it isn't his first run-in with the law.
Records show that in 2006, he was charged with sexual assault, later pleading guilty to the lesser charge of endangering the welfare of a child and serving more than 400 days in jail.
"It's pretty disturbing that a more thorough background check wasn't done being that he had a prior arrest," Jillian Gallagher, a local parent said.
Despite numerous attempts to reach officials with the Mullica Township Recreation Association, Eyewitness News does not know the extent of Ceasar's coaching or if they do background checks.
The organization is run by volunteers and not governed by the township.
"They got to have a clean record to be coaching children and have authority with the children," Gallagher said.
Parents say the association needs to make their background check policy clear and if they don't do checks, they should start.
"I know it costs money to do background checks," said Alesia Shute, a local parent. "But, it's all volunteer and we want to trust everybody, but we can't, obviously. We can't. It's terrible."
Ceasar is on $50,000 bail. Police say that they will not official say how he knew the 13-year-old girl, but they say there is a possibility that he could have other victims and if so, they hope they come forward.
