Tennis coach guilty of sex abuse

Marx · #1 18th-October-2007

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A tennis coach has been found guilty of sexually abusing a Merseyside schoolgirl she taught. The jury at Liverpool Crown Court convicted Claire Lyte, 29, of two counts of sexual activity with a child.
The court heard the 13-year-old girl's mother caught her daughter and the coach naked and in bed together in October 2005.
Lyte, of Solihull, West Midlands, who taught the girl at a national tennis academy, wore the girl's knickers.
During the three week trial the court heard that Lyte, named as Young Coach of the Year in 2001, had slept in the same room as the youngster, who cannot be named, at tennis tournaments.
Policy changed
It was also revealed that a day before the girl's mother found the pair in bed together Lyte had been given an official warning by her bosses at the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA).
She was later given another warning for her conduct with young players she coached.
Following Thursday's verdict the LTA said it had radically restructured its youth academy scheme in light of the case of Lyte.
It meant children who previously lived too far away to commute to the tennis academy, like the victim, had to lodge with local families and start at new schools, often seeing their parents only at weekends.
But the LTA has now abandoned this policy to run a network of 14 centres around the country, meaning children stay at home as their skills are nurtured.

Marx · #2 18th-October-2007

From 10th Oct (a week ago)

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Coach 'wore child's underwear'

The tennis coach denies sexually assaulting the girl from Merseyside

A tennis coach accused of having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old admitted wearing the child's knickers. When police searched Claire Lyte's home they discovered the pink underwear in a gift bag containing massage oil and lotions, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Miss Lyte, 29, denies five counts of sexual activity with a child.
The jury heard that Miss Lyte, who coached at the Lawn Tennis Association's academy in Loughborough, wore the underwear at least twice.
The former coach, from Shirley in Solihull, told the court she did not realise she was wearing them even though they contained the girl's name.
She said: "I wouldn't knowingly wear a pair of her pants with her name tag in them.
"That's what's confusing, that I put them on and didn't notice the name tag."
DNA traced
Miss Lyte, once ranked in tennis's top 500 until injury ended her career, claimed the knickers were innocently left at her house when she had been looking after the girl.
Police traced Miss Lyte's DNA on the knickers.
The coach, who is alleged to have had a sexual affair with the girl during 2005 and 2006, said the pants were mistakenly put in her cupboard after her mother washed them.
The defendant said she did not choose to wear them but picked them out randomly thinking they were her own.
Maintaining that the knickers would be given back to the girl - who cannot be named - she said: "I have my own pink pants as well and wouldn't have differentiated between them."
Teenage infatuation
In October 2005, the child's mother claims she discovered the youngster in bed together with Miss Lyte and engaged in a sexual act.
Asked why the girl would lie to concoct a story, Miss Lyte said: "I have thought long and hard, when I did so much for her with tennis and when her mum couldn't be there.
"The only thing I can come up with is that her mum has persuaded her to agree with these allegations which are just not true."
Mr Davies told the court that a document was discovered in Lyte's room during the police search.
It was a contract written by the girl to the coach in which she had drawn the pair of them in bed together with the words "You" and "Me" over it.
Miss Lyte said she believed the girl was in the grips of a teenage infatuation.
Miss Lyte's defence argues the incident never took place and the allegations had been fabricated by the mother, who was upset the child's tennis career was coming to an end.
The trial continues.

field marshall watkins · #3 3rd-November-2007

And finally.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...de/7074721.stm

Some select cuts before a quick comment from yours truly. My emphasis.

A female tennis coach has been jailed for two years and nine months for sexually abusing a schoolgirl.

Claire Lyte, 29, was criticised by the judge at Liverpool Crown Court for telling lies to avoid conviction.

During the two week trial the court heard the 13-year-old Merseyside girl's mother caught her daughter and the coach in bed together.

Judge Nigel Gilmour said: "In attempting to escape conviction you alleged that three generations of the victim's family were all part of a wicked conspiracy to get you convicted of crimes you hadn't committed.

"There wasn't and never has been such a conspiracy by the family.

It was revealed in court that days before the girl's mother found the pair in bed together, Lyte had been given an official warning by her bosses at the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA).

She was later given another warning over her conduct with young players she coached, which the judge said was an aggravating factor in her case.

After Lyte was found guilty, Judge Gilmour told the jury he had offered the coach the chance to change her pleas at the start of the trial because of "overwhelming evidence" against her.

Right, correct me if I'm wrong, but she lied on the stand and conspired to mislead the jury? That's perjury.

She was found guilty of sex abuse with a minor.

She had a history of such behaviour.

She had been given warnings in the past.

The evidence was overwhelming.

And she still gets less than 3 years?

This man got 8 years for underage sex.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...ds/7030360.stm

This bitch literally got away with it. She'll appeal, then talk bollocks about how she was abused as a kid (by her dad of course) and skip jail entirely, instead spending a bit of time in a community rehab thing.

Oh the pleasures of being the 'oppressive' sex.

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