Ex-coach charged with Sexual Assualt against boy under 14

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Former football coach Barry Bennell has been charged with eight offences of sexual assault against a boy under the age of 14, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.

Bennell, a youth coach who worked for Crewe Alexandra, Manchester City, Stoke City and several junior teams in northwest England and the Midlands, was given a four-year sentence for raping a British boy on a football tour of Florida in 1994.

In 1998, he was given a nine-year sentence for 23 offences against six boys in England.

"Following a review of the evidence, in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors, Mr. Bennell has today been charged with eight offences of sexual assault against a boy under the age of 14."

culled from ESPNFC

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