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Ex-Carmel coach guilty of child seduction weds victim

By Lisa Renze-Rhodes
lisa.renze.rhodes@indystar.com
January 13, 2002
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. -- Less than one week after being sentenced on three felony counts of child seduction, former Carmel High School teacher and coach Donald A. Renihan married the victim -- now an 18-year-old woman.
Renihan, 41, and Andrea Ray were married Saturday evening at Cyntheanne Christian Church near Noblesville, where Renihan's father, Larry, is pastor. One of the people attending the wedding said the elder Renihan did not perform the ceremony but did serve as his son's best man.
Renihan was arrested and charged last May with five counts of felony child seduction after his sexual relationship with Ray -- when she was 16 and 17 and a basketball player at Westfield and then Carmel for Renihan -- came to light.
Renihan was sentenced Tuesday on his guilty plea in December to three counts. Released from jail on probation, he was ordered to immediately forfeit his teaching license. Additionally, he cannot have unsupervised contact with children under age 18 (except for his own children), must undergo counseling and complete 120 hours of community service during his 31/2 years of probation.
It was unclear whether Ray's family members attended the wedding, but a statement released by Renihan's family asked for time to heal.
"We do not want the Rays upset any more than they already appear to be," the statement read. "If this 'story' had not been so overly exposed by the media, they would probably not be upset.
"You have no idea how overly zealous reporting has hurt children and adults. There is no need for this story to be reported today. Some day, when it is safe to talk, the real story will be told. Hopefully the lies and injustices will be recognized."
Maegan Pace, 18, a friend and classmate of Ray's at Carmel High School, attended the wedding. She said she's glad for her friend, adding the pair were "obviously happy."
"They wouldn't go through all this trouble," Pace said, "if it wasn't meant to be."

Remember the Titans - But how? / New 'non-gender specific' entries sought for Glenwood mascot 
CHATHAM, IL - Three drawings - each depicting a strong, fierce-looking man - may fit images of the mythical Greek giants known as Titans, but they apparently were not what some students had in mind for a mascot or logo. So it's back to the drawing board to come up with a Titan design. Student councils at Glenwood High School and Glenwood Middle School are asking students to submit alternative drawings of a Titan. Students thought the three drawing were too masculine, so the advisor to the student council has asked for new drawings of a new “non-gender specific” Titan. The school dumped their old Indian mascot because it was considered offensive. NORTH REGION NEWS

Witchdoctors banned from Nations Cup
CAIRO, January 17 -- Caf have banned "team advisors", otherwise known as witchdoctors, from any role within teams competing in the African Nations Cup. 
The Confederation took the step to avoid presenting a "third-world image" during the most high-profile tournament on the continent. 
Countries that in the past have employed so-called "wise men" include Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cameroon, Congo, Togo, Ivory Coast and Zambia. 
And there are reports that some intend to avoid the ban by buying their spiritual advisors tickets for the games. 
Once inside the ground the witchdoctor will then get to work, spreading "juju" in essential places. 
Witchdoctors have travelled with squads at past competitions to be available for consultation at all times. BBC ©2000 africast.com LLC

Hockey player pinned under Zamboni, driver suspended 
MONTREAL - The city of Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., has suspended one of its Zamboni drivers after a player on a Midget Triple-A hockey team that had not vacated the ice in time became pinned under the ice-clearing machine.
Claude Marchesseault, team president of the Collège Antoine-Girouard Gaulois, said it is lucky no one was hurt in the incident last week. The machine had already done one circuit around the boards when it began heading down the middle of the rink, where the team's 19 players were huddled.
"They were doing their team cheer," Mr. Marchesseault recounted in an interview yesterday. "The first player he hit was the goalie, who had on all his pads. He lost his balance and knocked down the other players."
Patrick Guay, a defenceman, had his leg caught and was pulled along until players managed to free him. He had a scare, but was fit to play the team's next game.
Municipal officials opened an investigation and suspended the veteran driver, whose name has not been released. City council is scheduled to decide his fate at a meeting on Monday night.
"I think people are going to pay a lot more attention now when the Zamboni comes on. And I think the message has been sent that you shouldn't start cleaning the ice until people have left the ice," Mr. Marchesseault said, adding he does not think the driver deliberately tried to hit the players. National Post

HS COACH BITES HEAD OFF SPARROW IN FRONT OF TEAM
- Aron D. Bright said he grew up on a 390-acre farm, and killing a sparrow is no different than setting a mouse trap. On Tuesday, the 31-year-old teacher and head wrestling coach at Avon High began a two-week suspension without pay for biting the head off a live sparrow in front of team members in December.

TOPLESS CHEERLEADER 
- One particular dance routine you won't see on TV, though it already is the stuff of legend in cheer and dance circles. It had everything: True grit, high drama — and bare breasts. Carla Sanchez calls herself very modest, the most modest person she knows. "You have no idea," she says. "Not even my mother has seen me naked."
Imagine the dilemma she faced when she and 17 other members of the New York University dance team began the 2-minute, 15-second routine they had worked on for months in hopes of securing a national championship. All was fine for about 15 seconds — until the plastic snap on Sanchez's spandex top inexplicably came undone. Sanchez had an instant to make a very public decision: Quickly cover up, as every fiber in her preacher's-daughter body wanted — or just keep dancin'. USA TODAY April 26, 2002

BRITISH GOLFER CALLS IN SICK, GOES TO PLAY GOLF, GETS CAUGHT AND FIRED, GETS AWARDED BACK PAY
- Fired golfer gets £19,000 By Claire Featherstone A Shropshire factory worker who was fired from work after being spotted playing golf while he was off sick has been awarded nearly £19,000 in compensation - almost two years after losing his unfair dismissal case. 

MICHIGAN HS ATHLETES ARRESTED FOR THROWING URINE ON PEOPLE FROM CAUGHT: CAPTURED IT ALL ON TAPE
- A fifth Napoleon High School senior implicated in a rash of drive-by attacks in Jackson was jailed Wednesday on two counts of felonious assault and conspiracy. Police said more than two dozen victims have come forward. They were hit with bottles, fruit, ice and urine. A videotape allegedly shot by the boys in January and February details numerous attacks in Jackson. The story continues to receive widespread media play.

ASPIRING PRO GOLFER STEALS CLUBS TO FINANCE TOURNAMENT TRY
First, authorities say he cheated on his golf score, hoping to increase his chances of qualifying for the BUY.COM tournament this weekend. Neely’s score card had a 67 written on it in red. But when Schumacher looked closely, he saw numbers written in pencil under the red. The true score was 78, not good enough to qualify for the tournament.
Then, once he was caught, he confessed to detectives that he had hopped from tournament to tournament participating in qualifying events across the region, stealing along the way, detectives said. Investigators found $6,500 worth of premier golf clubs — $2,400 worth taken from Millwood Golf & Racquet Club in Springfield — in his camper earlier this week.

ADULT LEAGUE SOFTBALL PLAYER ACCUSED OF CHOKING 74-YEAR-OLD UMPIRE INTO UNCONSCIOUSNESS 
- What was supposed to be a fun evening of co-ed softball turned violent, police said, when a 34-year-old Boca Raton man choked a 74-year-old umpire unconscious. Charles J. Mitchell turned himself in to Coconut Creek police Monday and was charged with aggravated battery on the elderly, a first-degree felony. 

SPORTS BRA COSTS HIGH SCHOOL RELAY TEAM TITLE
STEVENS POINT, Wis. - Brandi Chastain, beware. 
A group of track runners could become as synonymous with the sports bra as the soccer player who stripped off her shirt at the World Cup. 
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association disqualified the Stevens Point Area Senior High School's 800-meter relay team after one of the runners wore an illegal sports bra. The association later reinstated the team. The team of Jackie Kropp, Molly Sprouse and Emma and Kara Tauchman won the race at Thursday's sectional meet in Ashwaubenon by 9 seconds. But a meet official disqualified them because a runner had a sports bra that was white with 1/4-inch black trim on the straps. 

Ice-cleaning machine fumes put players and fans in hospital 
About 150 ice hockey players and fans needed hospital treatment in Belgium after fumes from an ice-cleaning machine made them ill.
First players then fans started feeling ill after the start of the championship game between Olympia Heist and Griffoen Geel.
An investigation revealed that a machine used for clearing the ice between matches had been pumping out carbon monoxide.
Olympia Heist were beating Griffoen Geel 6-3 when one of the Griffoen players left the game, saying he felt sick and dizzy. A few minutes later, a team mate followed him.
A spokesman for the stadium told De Morgen: "They were shouted at, because everybody thought the players couldn't accept they were losing."
But then more and more players and fans began to feel ill and had to leave the stadium. 
At least 112 people managed to drive to the local hospital in Geel and the rest had to be taken by ambulance.
The hospital alerted the local fire brigade who checked out the stadium and found the fault with the ice-cleaning machine.
Story filed: 11:06 Monday 25th February 2002 Ananova

$3 million Hazing
A former Pentucket High sophomore who claims he was sexually assaulted when hazed at a football camp last summer is demanding that the school district and its member communities pay him $3 million in reparations. Matthew joined the football team and last August he headed to the football camp with about 50 teammates and six coaches. At the camp, they were housed in three buildings -- one for the coaches and two for the players, Matthew told his attorney. On the second day of camp, during a break between the morning and after-lunch practices, Matthew said he was overcome by several of his teammates. First, Matthew said, they dragged their testicles over his face, then pulled his pants down and tried to jam a peeled banana in his rectum. Eagle-Tribune Writer

School-rivalry prank leads to a big stink in Tyler, Minn. 

TYLER, MINN. -- Coach Bob Schueller is putting his Russell-Tyler-Ruthton boys' basketball team through practice, and the gym floor is so glossy it reflects the blue shirts as the RTR Knights drive, pivot and shoot.
But a slightly duller swath of hardwood extends south from center court, and when it gets warm, Schueller said, that area smells like hogs.
That's the area where boys, mostly from archrival Lincoln HI in Ivanhoe, spilled several gallons of liquid hog manure and cheese sauce on the floor in what authorities call a prank gone bad.
Very bad, as it turns out. Six of the teenagers, ages 16 and 17, have been charged with felonies. They are to make a first appearance in Juvenile Court today, and may face thousands of dollars in restitution costs for the damage to the floor. Star Tribune, Published Feb 28, 2002


Trainer Takes Blood from Teen
Man wanted in swindle, sex crimes is returned

By Alicia A. Caldwell | Sentinel Staff Writer 
Posted March 8, 2002 

DAYTONA BEACH -- A former Father Lopez High School volunteer trainer accused of bilking an elderly woman and drawing blood from and having sexual contact with students has been returned to Volusia County after months of fighting extradition from Michigan.

William Ronald Johnson was booked into the Volusia County branch jail Wednesday night, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday. Linda Brinker, a spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office, said Johnson lost his bid to block extradition during a Feb. 22 hearing in Michigan.
Johnson, 41, had been in custody in LaPeer, Mich., serving a seven-year sentence on decade-old charges of sexual misconduct while volunteering as a coach there. He was arrested there in April and sentenced on those charges in July. He began fighting extradition to Florida in November.

Brinker said Florida authorities knew about Johnson's arrest in Michigan, but they had to wait until his case there was resolved before moving to have him returned to Volusia.

According to Volusia County court records, Johnson was wanted on charges of grand theft and embezzlement from an Ormond Beach widow. He also was charged with lewd and lascivious assault on a child and practicing health care without a license. He also is accused of dispensing steroids at Father Lopez High School.

Fan at children's soccer match bites coach's ear 

LONDON (AP) -- A fan at a youth soccer match who was angry over his team's loss attacked the other squad's coach and bit off a piece of his ear, a prosecutor said Wednesday.  Peter Tucker, 49, is accused of assaulting Simon Kay after the Hove Park Colts beat the Fishergate Flyers 6-2 in a game for children under 15 in Southwick in November 2000. Prosecutor Guy Russell told the Hove Crown Court that Tucker "behaved oddly" during the first half, yelled at players and kneed a parent in the groin during a sideline brawl. After the match, Tucker followed Kay, the Colts' coach, into a parking lot and wrestled him to the ground, Russell said. Tucker pleaded innocent. 

Nightclub nudity ends Little League support 
By the AP - 01/02/02 
BILLINGS (AP) — Planet Lockwood, a bar and casino in suburban Billings, has been one of the steadiest supporters of Lockwood Little League since the club opened five years ago. No more. Little League President Lynn Hilliard says the club is no longer an appropriate sponsor because it started offering live nude dancing the night after Christmas. “There’s a lot of people just very uncomfortable and very unhappy that they’re doing this,” she said. 
Hilliard said Planet Lockwood has sponsored a junior girls softball team and staged annual fund-raisers. It has donated from $80 to $300 a year to the Little League. 
“If they continue with their plans,” she said, “then no, Lockwood Little League will not accept money from them.” 

Two students sue their school because they were dropped from the majorettes.
By Dan Levine 
Published 01/10/02 
If you need a reminder of just how petty high school can be, consider the majorette odyssey of Stephanie Tata and Rebecca Mickolyczk. 
The two girls are now juniors at North Haven High School. Last year, they twirled batons on the school's majorette team, but not anymore. The coach dismissed Tata and Mickolyczk in April, and the girls say they are victims of cliquishness gone over the top. 
Perhaps in Texas, the situation would be resolved with a contract killing, a la Wanda Holloway. But this is New England, so the girls and their mothers are suing the coach, the athletic director and the high school principal, claiming the majorette coach violated their civil rights by cutting them from the team without just cause. 
Newspapers and radio shows across the country picked up the story. The mothers say they do not want money or any other kind of compensation besides restoring the girls on the team. "Just treat them fairly," Dolores Tata says. 
But the girls have no case, argues Robert Rhodes, a Halloran & Sage attorney representing the defendants. The girls tried out and didn't make the squad because they simply weren't good enough, he says. 
"This lawsuit is nothing more than legal blackmail," Rhodes says. 
dlevine@hartfordadvocate.com 

Former HS Security Guard/Coach Helps Girls Get Jobs as Strippers
CAMDEN - A former school security guard who admitted to helping three high school girls audition for jobs as exotic dancers was barred yesterday from working in the public sector for life. 
Marlon Bounds, 38, of Willingboro, also was sentenced in state Superior Court of Camden County to two years' probation and 50 hours of community service. He pleaded guilty in October to three counts of abuse and neglect of children. 
Bounds was a security guard at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden when he took two girls, ages 16 and 17, to audition at dance clubs in late 1997, according to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office. Both girls were hired. 
He arranged for another 16-year-old girl to pose nude or partially nude to help her get a job as an exotic dancer, prosecutors said. 
Bounds, a former high school football coach who also worked part time at the Camden Housing Authority, is currently collecting unemployment, said his lawyer, Troy Archie. 

Old friends share joy of Viagra at golf club 

BY ALAN HAMILTON 

A PHARMACIST who supplied his elderly golf club friends with under-the-counter Viagra tablets was officially reprimanded by his professional disciplinary committee yesterday. 
Michael Allen, 63, of Woodbridge, Suffolk, admitted supplying several fellow-members with the prescription-only drug, used to treat erectile dysfunction, after telling them how much it had improved his own married life. 
Inspectors from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society found 204 tablets unaccounted for at Mr Allen’s two pharmacies in Framlingham and Wickham Market. Mr Allen told a hearing of the society’s statutory committee in London that he had taken 150 of the tablets himself and had supplied the rest to friends to help with their libido problems. Mr Allen said that one of his friends in his sixties had remarried a woman 20 years his junior and another, aged 68, was married to a woman of 48. 
He told the committee how, four years ago, he had himself suffered problems. 
“The thought of going to a doctor just horrified me,” Mr Allen said. “Early in 2000 Viagra was launched; it seemed so natural that I wanted to give it a try. I can only say that it gave me such relief and made my relationship with my wife just excellent. 
“Individually, my best three or four friends came to me and explained their situations and asked me if I thought it would work for them. My answer was ‘well, why not?’ I know I did wrong; I know I ought to have told them to see a GP first, but when good friends are under pressure ...” 
Martin Ibbitt, society drugs inspector, found that the number of tablets supplied to Mr Allen’s business by wholesalers did not tally with the number of NHS prescriptions issued. 
When he visited the pharmacy he found three packets of Viagra containing a total of 20 tablets concealed behind the waste pipe of a sink. 
Explaining why it was a prescription-only drug, Mr Ibbitt told the hearing: “It has some side-effects which are quite significant.” 
Mr Ibbitt said he did not know whether any of Mr Allen’s friends who received the drug had medical conditions. “I didn’t embarrass them by going to see them.” 
The committee found Mr Allen guilty of misconduct as a superintendent pharmacist, but decided not to strike him off the pharmacists’ register. 
Copyright 2002 Times Newspapers Ltd. 

Fans angry at cover-up

BY MARK RUSSELL 
15jan02 http://sport.news.com.au/

A CRACKDOWN on women exposing their breasts during Perth Glory's home games has upset fans.
Security guards were accused of aggressively pushing aside supporters to get to two women who bared their breasts on Saturday night during the Glory's match against South Melbourne at Perth Oval. 
The two women were later escorted from the ground. 
Glory Shed Supporters' Club president Basil Hanna said yesterday he had complained to the club about the security guards who appeared to be on instructions to crackdown on female fans exposing their breasts. 
Mr Hanna said eight women had bared their breasts during a home game the week before in what has become almost a tradition at the Shed, the area where most Glory fans come together to watch games at Perth Oval. 
One of the Glory fans' songs includes the verse, "The Glory Shed is wonderful, it's full of tits, beer and singing". 
Mr Hanna said women had been baring their chests for years at the Shed but it usually happened only once or twice a season. 

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