Former Pennridge High School, Faith Christian Academy Coach Eric Romig Pleads Guilty to Sex with Teen

By By Bob Keeler and Erin Weaver
Montgomery News
January 29, 2014

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Former Pennridge High School and Pennridge Belles softball coach and former Faith Christian Academy in Sellersville girls basketball coach Eric Romig pleaded guilty Monday, Jan. 27, to charges of having had a sexual relationship last year with one of the members of the softball teams, the Intelligencer reported.

Romig, 36, was arrested in October and charged with crimes including institutional sexual assault, corruption of minors and unlawful contact with a minor.

A 16-year-old player on the two softball teams told investigators she and Romig began to “date” in May or June of 2013, after which Romig picked her up at her Perkasie home and took her to Earl B. Druckenmiller Park in Sellersville and to his home in Richland Township, according to information in the affidavit of probable cause.

The relationship included having sex and making and exchanging pornographic videos, investigators said.

It was discovered after the teen’s parents became suspicious and took away her cellphone, investigators said.

Calls to Jennifer Schorn, the Bucks County deputy district attorney prosecuting the case, were not immediately returned for more information on the Jan. 27 court proceedings before Bucks County Judge Wallace Bateman.

The Intelligencer reported prosecutors said Romig had propositioned two 16-year-old Faith Christian team members when he was a coach there during the 2008-09 school year. He was made to resign, but the incident was not reported to police and Pennridge School District, which subsequently hired him, was not told, either, according to the article. There was no reported physical contact between Romig and the Faith Christian students.

Officials at Faith Christian Academy and the Pennridge School District did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment.

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