High School Football Coach Arrested in Porn Scandal

The bad news about high school coaches behaving badly continues. This time, Michael Pickering, a 40-year-old assistant coach of the freshman football team at Staples High School in Westport, Conn., has turned himself in for providing players access to a pornographic website. He allegedly told police there were "issues" on the football team and that he had passed on the access code to players as a way to "create camaraderie among members of the team," according to local media reports.

The Westport Board of Education contacted police after someone filed a complaint, according to WTNH.com. The members of the team verified the allegations to police, who then obtained a search warrant for Pickering's computers. The coach turned himself in and was arrested for three counts of risk of injury to a minor. In addition to coaching the Wreckers freshman football squad for nine seasons, Pickering coaches freshman lacrosse and works in the school district's maintenance department.

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