Skip to content

Youth coaches charged with sex offenses involving players

In the last three years, 11 area youth coaches - from the Main Line to North Philadelphia to upper Bucks County - have been charged with attempting or having sexual contact with a player.

Lou Spadaccini, right, coaching baseball at Neumann-Goretti High School in 2010, and above, after his 2011 arrest on charges that included sexual assault against a 13-year-old youth player and giving drugs and alcohol to a 14-year-old. He is serving a 12- to 24-year prison term.
Lou Spadaccini, right, coaching baseball at Neumann-Goretti High School in 2010, and above, after his 2011 arrest on charges that included sexual assault against a 13-year-old youth player and giving drugs and alcohol to a 14-year-old. He is serving a 12- to 24-year prison term.Read more
Published