High school football coach is arrested for raping 15-year-old schoolgirl and forcing others to send him nude selfies on SnapchatÂ
- Damien Hyatt, 25, was arrested on Wednesday in Moriarty, New MexicoÂ
- He is accused of raping at least one underage girl at Moriarty High Schoo
- Assistant football coach 'bought others alcohol in exchange for sex'
- He is accused of harassed the girls until they sent him nude photographs
Damien Hyatt is accused of raping at least one underage girl and harassing two others
A high school football coach has been arrested for raping and harassing three underage schoolgirls.Â
Damien Hyatt is a former student of Moriarty High School in New Mexico and has worked as an assistant coach to its undefeated football team for two years.Â
The 25-year-old was arrested on Wednesday for sexually abusing three female students aged 15 and 16 at the school.Â
Police believe he harassed the girls, telling them he would only leave them alone if they sent him nude photographs on Snapchat.
He is facing 24 child sex offences including 13 rape charges.Â
Hyatt is accused of striking up a relationship with his first victim, a 15-year-old student, a year ago.Â
Investigators say the pair had sex more than once and exchanged nude photographs.
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He then began accosting a 16-year-old girl at the same school, KRQUE reports.Â
Hyatt pestered the girl for sex repeatedly, it is alleged, and only left her alone when she sent him nude photographs on Snapchat.Â
Another girl said he begged her for sex but she declined. She says he also grabbed her buttocks.
The 25-year-old is an assistant football coach at Moriarty High School in New Mexico (above)
Hyatt has worked as an assistant coach to the Moriarty Pintos football team (above) for two years
Hyatt allegedly bought some of the girls alcohol at a local Walmart (above) to try to bribe them into having sex with himÂ
The assistant coach bought the third girl and her friends alcohol at a local Walmart to try to get her to sleep with him, she claimed.Â
She eventually sent him explicit photographs after he threatened her family.Â
Alongside 13 rape charges, Hyatt faces a handful of others including criminal sexual contact and penetration, Â criminal solicitation to commit criminal sexual penetration and bribery of a witness.Â
He was placed on administrative leave at the end of September.Â
'We’re working closely with law enforcement to ensure the safety and security of students during the investigation and be respectful of privacy matters,' Tom Sullivan, superintendent of the Moriarty—Edgewood School District, told The Albuquerque Journal.
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