﻿{"id":491503,"date":"2021-11-17T14:42:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T21:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=491503"},"modified":"2021-11-17T14:42:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T21:42:31","slug":"former-high-point-swim-coach-pleads-guilty-to-sexual-assault-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/former-high-point-swim-coach-pleads-guilty-to-sexual-assault-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Former High Point Swim Coach Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Former High Point Swim Coach Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault Charges<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aaron Philip Key,<\/strong> a High Point, North Carolina, swim coach pleaded guilty to six felony counts of sexual assault, taking indecent liberties with a child, on Monday in a Guilford County Courthouse, according to news reports.<\/p>\n<p>Key, 28, was arrested in January by the High Point Police Department. According to prosecutors, Key began molesting a 7-year-old boy, who is now 15.<\/p>\n<p>Key is a former High Point Elks Lodge coach who left the position in 2016, according to a team post. It is unknown whether he has coached anywhere since.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Guilford County District Attorney\u2019s Office, Key lived in Raleigh at the time. He became close with the family while coaching the boy. That closeness led to him staying at the family\u2019s home as a chaperone while the boy\u2019s parents were out of town.<\/p>\n<p>Judge <strong>Timothy Gould<\/strong> sentenced Key to two consecutive prison terms of 16-to-29 months. Key also was sentenced to four separate probation terms of 16-to-29 months per count. He will likely spend between nearly 3-5 years in prison, with the potential to serve nearly 10 years of probation thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Key is required to register as a sex offender and pay $75,000 in restitution.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpenews.com\/news\/swim-coach-preyed-on-boy\/article_83340484-6baa-53b6-8b12-46746d4d73b9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former High Point Swim Coach Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault Charges Aaron Philip Key, a High Point, North Carolina, swim coach pleaded guilty to six felony counts of sexual assault,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":316695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[122077,7],"tags":[126913,129829],"class_list":["post-491503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas","category-usa","tag-aaron-philip-key","tag-high-point-elks-lodge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>High Point Former Swim Coach Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault Charges<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former High Point Swim Coach Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault Charges. 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