Editor’s Note: The below story contains graphic descriptions of alleged sexual acts.
Credit: Falls Township Police Department
A former Levittown youth softball coach will serve five to 10 years in prison for having a sexual relationship with a a teenage player, who was also his daughter’s friend.
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Kevin Jones, 34 , of Hoover Drive in Falls Township, will serve the jail time and also have to register as a sex offender when he is freed from state prison. The sentence was handed down Thursday at county court in Doylestown.
Jones pleaded guilty in August to charges of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a minor, aggravated assault on a minor, statutory sexual assault, corruption of minors and related offenses as part of a plea deal previously struck.
Jones coached for Levittown American and Levittown Bulldogs before stopping last year.
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The victim, who is now 16, and Jones exchanged over 1,400 text messages since 2011 and had even more communications had been sent through Facebook’s private chat system, police said.
Investigators said they found photos of Jones and the teen “posing together as a couple” on his cell phone, and he called himself her father.
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The victim told family she was involved in a “sexual relationship” with Jones around mid-January, police said. Her mother, court records show, went to police shortly after to report the allegations.
The illegal contact started with a kiss Jones gave her as he was driving her home from hanging out with the similarly-aged daughter, police said. The kiss led to groping, then oral, vaginal and anal sex, according to an affidavit. No drugs or booze were said to have been involved.
When police interview Jones, he said their contact was like a parent-sibling relationship. He said they would often hug and kiss in front of the victim’s mother, police reported.
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Just before meeting with investigators, the girl texted Jones and apologized for ruining his life, police said. He answered with, “Who knows?”
Jones showed his wife a text from the girl stating, “Run, my mom knows.” He then contacted a lawyer who told him to cease contact with the girl, police said.
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Court records show the victim proceeded to send the 34-year-old messages over Facebook during the following days apologizing to him and saying how lost she was without him.
At the Jones’ March preliminary hearing, the girl testified and Assistant District Attorney Michelle Henry said a handful of the victim’s softball teammates came to court to support her.
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A fire devastated Jones’ trailer on Hoover Road just hours before police planned to execute a search warrant. Police officials said potential evidence, like bedding, computers and cellphones were all destroyed in the early morning fire.
Falls Fire Marshal Rich Dippilitto said in summer that the cause of the fire was “undetermined” and no evidence was found to link Jones to the blaze. The fire is believed to have started in the area of the dryer.
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One of the teams Jones’ coached released a statement at the time of his arrest and said they were “shocked and appalled.”
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