A former youth league softball coach has been sentenced to five years in community corrections for attacking a former player, a 15-year-old girl, in a recreation center shower room.
Jason Lee Davis, 43, was sentenced for of negligent child abuse causing serious bodily injury and , both felonies, according to the Adams County district attorney’s office.
On April 2, Davis attacked the teen at the Margaret Carpenter Recreation Center. Davis, a coach of the Broomfield Thunder softball team, had picked up the girl at her home, took her to a Target to buy a swimsuit and took her to the rec center, where he attacked the victim in the shower of a family changing room, according to a news release.
Sarah Stout, deputy district attorney, told the court Davis had groomed the girl to trust him as a mentor in her life. He arranged to get her alone without her parents’ knowledge at the recreation center and assaulted her, the release said.
In rejecting a probation sentence, Adams County District Judge Mark Warner said Davis’ conduct was a major betrayal of trust for the victim and her family.
