Teh One Who Knocks
12-18-2011, 11:47 AM
Daniel Tepfer, Stamford Advocate Staff Writer
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MONROE -- Police said a Brookfield cheerleading coach exchanged nude photographs with a 15-year-old girl.
When police confronted 30-year-old Manuel Batson, they said he admitted sending nude photos of himself to the girl, but claimed he thought it was all right because she had told him she was already smoking and drinking.
Batson, of Church Street, Ansonia, was charged with risk of injury and impairing the morals of a minor. He was released on $25,000 bond pending arraignment in Superior Court in Bridgeport on Dec. 22.
According to police, on Nov. 21, the girl and her mother complained to police that the girl was having an inappropriate relationship with Batson, who rents space at Northeast Tropics Gym in Brookfield.
Police said the girl had begun cheerleading at the gym in July. During some of the practices police said that Batson would flirt with the girl and later struck up a relationship with her on Facebook.
Police said Batson persuaded the girl to send him four nude photos of herself in exchange for him sending three nude photos to her. Police said the girl later told them that she was afraid if she didn't exchange nude photos with Batson, "It would make cheer practice really weird."
Police said Batson admitted to them he sent nude photos of himself to the girl, but claimed he thought she was older because she told him she had been at a party smoking and drinking and teenagers in his family don't do that sort of thing until they are of the proper age.
Fallon Grady, owner of the gym, said when she was informed about the issue she told Batson she would not rent space to him any longer. She said Batson coached three girls at the gym, though the 15-year-old was not one of the girls he coached. Monroe police said Batson was the girl's coach.
Grady said her tumbling team, which the 15-year old is on, practices at the gym on Wednesdays and that is when the girl would see Batson. She said she hasn't done background checks in the past on those who rent space in the gym, but she will start doing that now.
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MONROE -- Police said a Brookfield cheerleading coach exchanged nude photographs with a 15-year-old girl.
When police confronted 30-year-old Manuel Batson, they said he admitted sending nude photos of himself to the girl, but claimed he thought it was all right because she had told him she was already smoking and drinking.
Batson, of Church Street, Ansonia, was charged with risk of injury and impairing the morals of a minor. He was released on $25,000 bond pending arraignment in Superior Court in Bridgeport on Dec. 22.
According to police, on Nov. 21, the girl and her mother complained to police that the girl was having an inappropriate relationship with Batson, who rents space at Northeast Tropics Gym in Brookfield.
Police said the girl had begun cheerleading at the gym in July. During some of the practices police said that Batson would flirt with the girl and later struck up a relationship with her on Facebook.
Police said Batson persuaded the girl to send him four nude photos of herself in exchange for him sending three nude photos to her. Police said the girl later told them that she was afraid if she didn't exchange nude photos with Batson, "It would make cheer practice really weird."
Police said Batson admitted to them he sent nude photos of himself to the girl, but claimed he thought she was older because she told him she had been at a party smoking and drinking and teenagers in his family don't do that sort of thing until they are of the proper age.
Fallon Grady, owner of the gym, said when she was informed about the issue she told Batson she would not rent space to him any longer. She said Batson coached three girls at the gym, though the 15-year-old was not one of the girls he coached. Monroe police said Batson was the girl's coach.
Grady said her tumbling team, which the 15-year old is on, practices at the gym on Wednesdays and that is when the girl would see Batson. She said she hasn't done background checks in the past on those who rent space in the gym, but she will start doing that now.