GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—A former business teacher and girls basketball coach at Central High School in Grand Junction has been sentenced to five years intensive probation for the attempted sexual assault of a student.
Thirty-three-year-old Matthew Lindholm had pleaded guilty in July to a felony charge of attempted sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.
He was accused of repeatedly fondling and kissing a 14-year-old girl in his office at the school between January 2007 and February 2008. Lindholm resigned from the district Feb. 11.
He was sentenced Monday.
Lindholm apologized in court to the girl, the school and the community for his actions.
He will also serve 90 days of electronic home monitoring and will have to register as a sex offender.
