Former wrestling coach gets 71 years in prison for sex crimes against 9 children
LA TimesA former wrestling coach at a Sun Valley high school convicted of sex-related charges involving nine children was sentenced Tuesday to 71 years in state prison, prosecutors said. Gillard met his victims through his role as a wrestling coach at John H. Francis Polytechnic High School, where he was also a campus aide, and his work at the Boys and Girls Club, prosecutors said. I could never snitch.” During the trial, jurors heard testimony that Gillard sexually abused young wrestlers as far back as 1991, when he directed an 11-year-old boy to have sex with a woman in the backseat of the coach’s Cadillac while he watched. Three of the victims have sued the former coach, the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Boys and Girls Club of San Fernando, alleging that the institutions had prior knowledge of Gillard’s misconduct and should have removed him from having contact with children.
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