Plea Agreement Reveals Extent of Youth Coach's Abuse

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A plea agreement filed Thursday in federal court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, revealed that a prominent youth basketball coach had engaged in the exploitation and physical abuse of hundreds of boys over several years, the Associated Press reports.

Greg Stephen, 42, was a coach and co-director of the Iowa Barnstormers, an Adidas-sponsored traveling program that has produced several Division I college basketball players, since 2008. The program serves boys ages 9 through 17. Stephen preyed upon former players, their friends and other athletes. A hard drive containing folders named for 400 different boys, each containing explicit photos and videos, was discovered after police were tipped off in February by Stephen's brother-in-law, who discovered a recording device while remodeling a bathroom at Stephen's residence. Stephen used devices intended to look like a towel hook or a smoke detector to secretly record boys showering in his home, in his lake cabin and in hotel rooms while the Barnstormers traveled to American Athletic Union tournaments or NBA games.

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