A soccer coach in Tennessee has been arrested after police said they found hundreds of videos and images of him appearing to rape unconscious boys on a phone he left behind at a restaurant.
Police said employees at a local restaurant found a customer’s phone and went through it to try to reach the owner so they could return it. After stumbling upon “unconscionable videos and pictures of children,” they called the police, the department said.
Detectives found “hundreds of disturbing videos and pictures” on the phone, the department said. “In many of them, Campos recorded himself raping unconscious boys between approximately 9 and 17 years old,” its statement said. Police described Campos as a popular coach. They said he “frequented nearby school playgrounds … where he approached kids and recruited them as players on his team.”“After gaining their trust, Campos invited many of the kids to his home where he drugged and then raped them,” police added.Campos has lived in Franklin for two decades, police said. The city in central Tennessee, about 20 miles south of Nashville, has a population of about 87,000.
His arrest is the latest in a string of allegations of sexual abuse of minors in U.S. sports. The high-profile case of
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