By Pat Roxborough, Staff Reporter
WESTERN BUREAU:
TWENTY-EIGHT year-old football coach, Donald Eccleston, is booked to appear in court tomorrow to face accusations that he buggered a seven year old boy.
Donald Eccleston, who once coached the under-12 football team at the Mount Salem All Age and Junior High School, was arrested last week after the boy's mother told the police that the coach molested her son.
According to the allegations which were drafted based on the report that the boy made to his mother, Eccleston took him to an empty classroom on January 8 at about 5:40 p.m. and buggered him.
The boy said Eccleston gave him $40.00 after the incident.
Veronica Hines, the school's principal, told The Gleaner that Mr. Eccleston was not employed to the school. However, she refused to disclose the circumstances under which he had been coaching the team.
"I am not willing to give any information at this time. Let me put it this way, he is not employed to the school as a coach," she said.
When Eccleston appeared in court yesterday, Resident Magistrate Paulette Williams set the matter for mention tomorrow in order to give the coach a chance to secure the services of a lawyer.
Tomorrow when Eccleston appears in court he will most likely be informed of a date on which a preliminary hearing will be conducted to determine if there is enough evidence against him to take the matter to trial in the Supreme Court.
