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Former Hillcrest High School Coach Arrested For Student Sex Crimes

Former Hillcrest High School Coach Arrested For Student Sex Crimes

Former Hillcrest High School Coach Arrested For Student Sex Crimes

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — An assistant high school football coach in Springfield has been arrested on suspicion of having sexual contact with a student.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that 29-year-old Mikael Cooper-Falls was booked into the Greene County Jail shortly before 1 p.m. Monday. He faces charges of second-degree statutory rape, sodomy, child abuse, child molestation and sexual contact with a student charges.

The Springfield school district says Cooper-Falls is no longer a district employee. Besides coaching at Hillcrest High School, he also was a teacher’s aide. The district says in a statement that it is cooperating with the investigation.

Cooper-Falls also is a former starting running back for Hillcrest’s football team. He majored in criminology at Missouri State and played on the university’s football team for four seasons from 2009 through 2013.

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