Ryan Paul Carnell, 29, a former volunteer wresting coach at Westview High School in Rancho Penasquitos, pleaded guilty to a charge of committing a lewd and lascivious act on a child who was more than 10 years younger than he. Carnell has a separate case in which he pleaded no contest to sending harmful matter, a photo of his genitals, to a minor. He faces a maximum total sentence of 3 years and 8 months in prison on both cases.

Andrew King, 61, is a serial child molester who used his position as a swim coach to molest at least a dozen young girls, allegedly including one Oak Harbor girl, over his 30-year career. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison, earlier this year, in a California courtroom after pleading no contest last fall to 20 child molestation charges.

In a sex abuse scandal that some victims compare to what happened in the Catholic Church, at least 36 swimming coaches have been banned for life by the USA Swimming organization, over the last 10 years, because of sexual misconduct with teenagers they coached. One coach, Brian Hindson of Kokomo, IN, secretly taped teenage girls he coached in two high school pool locker rooms. He was sentenced in 2008 to 33 years in federal prison. In some cases, the swimming coaches found to have been sexual predators were able to move from town to town, one step ahead of police and victims and their parents.

Dominic C. Scarfe, 32, a former volleyball coach at Madison High School in Clairemont, pleaded not guilty to nine felony counts related to having sex with one of his students and one count of possession of obscene material. If convicted, he could be sent to prison for up to 27 years.

The arraignment of Robin M. Alarcon, the 35-year-old girl's soccer coach at Del Norte High School, was canceled yesterday while the District Attorney's office reviews the case further. Alarcon is accused of sending "very inappropriate" text messages to one of his students.

In December a former volunteer wrestling coach at Westview High School in Rancho Penasquitos, Ryan Paul Carnell, was accused of molesting a student. Separately, he is also accused of providing pornography and marijuana to a teenage student at the school.

Robin Alarcon, 35, who coached the girls freshman soccer team at Del North High School, was arrested for sending "very inappropriate" text messages to a female student. Alarcon was also a coach on other campuses, as well. He is also a girl's club soccer coach for a team in Rancho Penasquitos. He had cleared all background checks. He is the latest Poway Unified School District high school coach to be accused of improper behavior.

Former swim coach, Andrew King, 61, plead no contest to child molestation charges.  King had been a head coach at San Jose Aquatics and a number of swim clubs in the area over the past 40 years. Since King was arrested in April 2009 on suspicion of molesting a 14-yr. old girl, investigators say they found 12 others who said they had been molested by the coach. King remains in Santa Clara County Jail on $3 million bail.  Santa Clara County DA said that in pushing for the full 42-yr. sentence for King, he hopes to schedule a sentencing hearing before the winter holidays.

John Gutierrez Rodriguez Jr., 44, a volunteer baseball and bowling coach was sentenced to 135 years to life in prison. Rodriguez is being charged with molesting two boys in the late 1990’s.

Henry Sosa, 42, was sentenced to state prison for having sex with a 15-year-old female soccer player. Sosa was a soccer coach for the club team "surf". The incident took place at a hotel in Irvine, California. Sosa had bought alcohol and got the young soccer player extremely intoxicated, before having sex with her in the hotel. Sosa pleaded guilty to six counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child and was sentenced to 52 months behind bars.

Ernest Brooks, 41, is accused of molesting four youth from a San Diego baseball league. Brooks would have large sleepover parties, in which he would have children sleep in his bed with him. Four boys who range in age from 11 to 15, will testify that Brooks fondled them in bed.

Randolph Dimacali, 37, was the founder of the San Diego shores water polo club in 1992. Dimacali would bring teenage boys, who he coached to his home in Clairemont, give them alcohol and marijuana while molesting them. Dimacali was sentenced to one year in jail and five years probation.

Ernest Brooks, 40, faces eight counts of molesting four boys he met at the Adams Avenue Recreation Center Park in San Diego. They have all testified that Brooks, their little league coach fondled them during sleepovers at his Chula Vista residence.

Christopher Reardon, 29, a former youth leader and YMCA swim coach in Massachusetts is facing 130 counts of child molestation involving 29 children.