Soccer Coach Arrested in Forney High Hazing Case That Led to Sex Charges Against Boys

A Forney High School soccer coach was booked into the Kaufman County Jail Wednesday in connection with allegations of sexual assaults involving his team, jail records show.Kristopher Duplissey, 41, was arrested on a charge of failure to report the allegations of sexual assault among his players. Court records made public more than a year ago showed school officials, including the coach, knew of the accusations weeks before they were reported to authorities.Five team members -- including one who was legally an adult -- were taken into custody in January 2018 after at least two teammates said they were sexually assaulted. One said he had been sodomized in 2015 and again during the 2017 soccer season. Failure to report abuse of a child is a Class A misdemeanor in Texas. But if a person tried to conceal the abuse, it's a felony.   Continue reading...

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