A former girls high school basketball coach in Alabama who was once considered a great role model for young people has been charged with deviant sexual conduct with a student, among other crimes.
Paige Adams, 35, was arrested Tuesday after a grand jury indicted her on more than 30 sex crimes. The indictment comes less than a month after she resigned from Cold Spring High School after school officials received complaints.
The charges include distributing obscene material to students, one count of sexual contact by a school employee with a student under 19 and one count of sexual conduct or deviant intercourse by a school employee with a student, CBS42 reported.
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Paige Adams, 35, a former girls high school basketball coach in Alabama, has been charged with multiple sex crimes.
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“This 32-count grand jury indictment speaks for itself,” Cullman County District Attorney Champ Crocker told the news outlet.
It’s unclear how old the student was at the time of Adams’ alleged misconduct.
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Adams led the school’s girls basketball team for one season. Her husband, Drew, filed for divorce after she resigned to coach the men’s team. In her only season as coach, Adams led the team to a 23-11 record, a district championship and an appearance in the AHSAA Final Four.
Cullman County Schools Superintendent Shane Barnette praised her as a “great role model for the youth of Cullman County,” 1819 News reported.
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“This is the first formal complaint I have received regarding this employee,” Barnett said in a statement posted on social media. “As soon as the issue was raised, an investigation was immediately launched. The employee chose to resign at that time.”
According to 1819 News, in 2017, Adams left another school in the same district, Holly Pond High School, after just one season. The reason for her departure was not specified.
“It’s definitely hard,” she said. “I’ve been praying about this a lot and I feel like God is leading me in a different direction that I plan to pursue. Sometimes you have to do what’s best for you and your family,” Adams said after resigning.
Adams and her husband have been married for 15 years.
Cullman County Sheriff’s Office vehicles were parked outside the Sheriff’s Building.
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Adams was released from jail on $225,000 bail but was required to wear an electronic monitoring device, local media reported.
Original source of the article: Former Alabama girls high school basketball coach accused of having ‘deviant’ sex with student, abandoned by husband
