Football coach molests, blackmails boys

An Asian football coach allegedly sexually assaulted 15-year-old boy, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.
 
FR, was training few teenage footballers and was transporting them to and from the training area.
 
Four months before the crime, the coach managed to add AY, student, to his Facebook account and as his relationship with him grew stronger, he incited him to commit immoral act by sending him inappropriate sketches.
 
The coach managed to get naked pictures of AY as well as of his other trainees and started blackmailing them one after another to physically please him or else he would post their images on social media.
 
On November 15, 2015, after training, the football coach dropped all the other boys except AY.
 
He drove to a sandy area behind a school where he asked the boy to undress.
 
"As I refused, he came to the back seat, where I was sitting, and threatened to post my pictures if I refused. I got scared, so I undressed, and so did he. He then molested me. He asked me not to inform anyone or else he will post my pictures. I could not run away from the car because he locked the door," the boy told prosecutors.
 
Police arrested the coach, who holds a salesman visa, and when confronted, the latter admitted to the crime.
 
Police found inappropriate pictures of other victims, all of whom were training under him.
 
The accused admitted that he had committed the crime with different boys.
 
Police also found inappropriate sketches in his mobile phone. The accused then repeated his confession before prosecutors.
 
The coach faces five accusations - molesting a teenager, threatening him, seducing a teenager to commit a sin through internet, possessing inappropriate pictures of teenagers and blackmailing them, and possessing inappropriate sketches on his mobile.
 
The accused denied all charges in the court and claimed that the mobile phone in which there were inappropriate pictures of teenagers did not belong to him but of a friend who had left the country and kept the phone with him.
 
The court will reconvene on May 16.

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