A highschool observe and area coach was acquitted of sexually assaulting an underage male scholar at Doris Johnson Senior Excessive College in Nassau, The Bahamas, 4 years in the past.
In courtroom on Thursday, the jury returned a 6-2 verdict, clearing him on all three counts after almost 5 hours of deliberation.
Prosecutors had alleged that Robert Ayton, 54, touched the complainant inappropriately on the Cricket Membership area throughout a cross-country meet someday between October 1 and 31 in 2019.
They additional claimed the defendant had sexual relations with the teenager at his residence and on the faculty on two separate events between June 1, 2020, and February 28, 2021, when the complainant was between 14 and 15.
Ayton, a Jamaican nationwide, additionally a arithmetic trainer on the faculty, confronted two counts of illegal sexual activity with a minor of the identical intercourse and one rely of indecent assault.
The complainant claimed Ayton touched his genitals whereas giving him a therapeutic massage for an harm on the cross-country meet.
He additional alleged that Ayton pressured him to carry out fellatio at knifepoint within the faculty fitness center, and on one other event sexually assaulted him at his residence after providing him a journey from a observe meet.
The complainant mentioned the defendant locked him inside the home and assaulted him within the lavatory when he tried to retrieve the important thing.
Ayton maintained his innocence all through the trial and insisted the complainant was mendacity, although he couldn’t clarify why the accusations had been made in opposition to him.
