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Henrico County Football Coach Arrested on "Sexting", Other Charges

Details are unclear at this point, but an Henrico County (Virginia) high school football coach surrendered to police ton May 19th (2009) to face five felony charges alleging inappropriate conduct with a female student at the school. William Macgregor "Mac" Leighton, 31, faces decades in prison if convicted of five felony charges stemming from a relationship with an underage female student at Tucker that authorities say began that same October. "We believe the relationship began in October; it came to our attention earlier this year," Henrico police Lt. Doug Perry said.

Police said two of the charges allege that Leighton sent text messages from a cell phone soliciting pornographic material from the student. Three additional felony counts allege Leighton took indecent liberties with the same minor while in a custodial role.Leighton taught social studies and history at Tucker, according to the school's Web site.

The charges come as Henrico has drawn attention over an outbreak of so-called "sexting" episodes in which students, some in middle school, have sent sexually explicit images of themselves to friends by cell phone. Prosecutors in many jurisdictions across the country have been reluctant to prosecute the cases because they do not clearly violate pornography statutes and because most of the images are taken and sent voluntarily to other minors. In Virginia, some legislators are considering possible language that would address sexting in criminal laws.

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