A 23-year-old teacher and swim coach at a Nevada high school has been arrested and accused of having sex with a student, per LasVegasNow.com.
Jonathan Scheaffer was listed on the Desert Pines High School website as a science teacher and a girl’s swim coach, according to LasVegasNow.com. He was arrested last week.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Scheaffer resigned from his position last week, and that he had been with the school district since the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year.
According to the Review-Journal, Scheaffer is charged with 11 counts of sexual contact between a school employee and a pupil between the ages of 16 and 17. The Review-Journal also reports that the age of consent in Nevada is 16, but that a state law prohibits teachers from having sexual contact with students who are younger than 18.
The Review-Journal reports that prosecutors alleged that the girl “was unwilling to have sex and submitted to Scheaffer’s pressure,” and also alleged that Scheaffer had had relationships with other students.
Meanwhile The Las Vegas Sun reports that the student searched the internet for “the definition of an abusive relationship,” and that Scheaffer had once “grabbed her by the neck and choked her until she couldn’t breathe.”
The Las Vegas Sun also reports that the girl’s mother knew about the relationship, and that though she tried to scare Scheaffer off, she eventually relented.
Mr. Scheaffer was a member of USA Swimming thirteen years ago when he was 12. So, according to Olympian David Berkoff, he should be banned for life?
I thought it was kind of a strange sentence that the girl submitted to the teacher’s “pleasure” so I looked up the article and she submitted to his “pressure”. Makes more sense.