Depositions: HS Failed to Report Coach's Misconduct

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Officials at John F. Kennedy High School in LaPalma, Calif, acknowledge their failure to conduct a proper investigation into December 2015 allegations that a water polo coach at the school was trying to date a freshman on his team, and that school officials did not report the allegations to authorities, according to documents obtained by The Orange County Register.

In his own deposition, Joshua Owens, the coach in question, admitted that he felt he was in trouble when summoned to a Dec. 14, 2015, meeting with Dave Jankowski, one of the school's athletic directors. Owens had previously dated a different girl on his team when the allegations regarding the freshman surfaced. "As soon as I thought Jankowski knew anything happened, I was like, great, I'm going to jail for the rest of my life is literally what went through my head," Owens stated under oath earlier this month. "Jankowski is going to throw me under the bus and I’m dead is what literally went through my head as [I was] thinking about it."

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