A Baton Rouge youth soccer coach was arrested and charged Tuesday (June 26) with sexually assaulting one of his players multiple times beginning when she was 14 years old, police in Bridgeport, Connecticut, told The Connecticut Post.
Adam Allerton, 42, was arrested as a fugitive in Baton Rouge before surrendering himself in Bridgeport after an 18-year-old told police there Allerton assaulted her while she was on a soccer team he coached at a private school in Waterbury, Connecticut between 2008 and 2013, according to The Advocate.
Allerton moved to Baton Rouge in 2014, soon after which he landed a job as the youth academy director for the Baton Rouge Soccer Club.
The teen provided investigators with text messages in which she confronted Allerton about the assaults, and she cooperated with police when she was asked be recorded in a phone call to Allerton, The Connecticut Post reported.
“We just got wrapped up in this together,” Allerton is reported to have told the teen.
The FBI is involved in the investigation, The Advocate reported, because the teen said the assaults happened across multiple state lines when the soccer team traveled.
Allerton has been charged with multiple counts of second- and fourth-degree sexual assault, according to The Connecticut Post.
Read the full stories from The Advocate and The Connecticut Post.