A Montgomery County, Ohio, man is facing more than 100 charges involving sex crimes related to children.

The man worked as a softball coach at a high school. He was placed on leave at the end of April, and he immediately resigned, after an investigation into allegations that he was texting inappropriately with one of the players on his team.

In addition, law enforcement allegedly found 36 videos of a minor on an SD card found in the man's home. These videos showed the victim in varying states of nudity. The man is also alleged to have placed hidden cameras to capture minors in various stages of undress and saving the images.

"Prosecutors said those additional victims were known to [the accused] but were not related to ... local schools."

Source: https://www.whio.com/news/local/former-softball-coach-facing-more-than-100-additional-voyeurism-child-porn-charges/DL3CEGKZSZFFBDEEAGHLURIATA/

Commentary

In the above matter, a complaint about inappropriate texting led to the discovery of other alleged misconduct.

A complaint of wrongdoing is often beginning of discovering inappropriate conduct with children. Child safe environments should always be ready to learn more as an investigation unfolds, including the revelation of severe misconduct and additional victims.

Although not every complaint or investigation will reveal more extensive misconduct, child safe organizations that limit an investigation's scope at the start risk missing important evidence.

For example, if the institution in the above case had simply asked the coach to stop texting players and failed to conduct a thorough investigation or cooperate with law enforcement, the many other minor victims, unrelated to the school, would not have been discovered.

The final takeaway is that complaints regarding child sexual abuse should be treated as opportunities to discover the facts by cooperating to the fullest extent with law enforcement.