A former coach for a Special Olympics soccer team in Pennsylvania is going to trial on charges of raping a player with intellectual disabilities.
READING, Pa. -- A former coach for a county Special Olympics soccer team is going to trial on charges of raping a player with intellectual disabilities.
The Reading Eagle reports Michael Sheldon was ordered held without bail after a preliminary hearing Thursday.The victim told investigators that he rebuffed Sheldon's advances and that Sheldon sexually assaulted him after he fell asleep. Police say the 28-year-old Sheldon threatened to take away the victim's Special Olympics involvement after the man reported the assault.
A spokeswoman with the Special Olympics of Berks County says Sheldon was suspended after he was charged.
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