Sex abuse victim files lawsuit against former coach

WILMINGTON (NC)
Star News

By F.T. Norton
Fran.Norton@StarNewsOnline.com

A former Wilmington youth basketball coach who was sentenced to short prison terms in both North Carolina and New York for sexually abusing an autistic female player in 2008 is being sued by the victim.

Court documents filed in August indicate that defendants Freddie Lamont Wilson, the now-defunct Southeastern North Carolina Youth Basketball Association he founded and Grace Harbor Church have until Jan. 30 to answer a complaint seeking a jury trial filed on behalf of the now-19-year-old victim.

Her name is being withheld because the StarNews does not name victims of sex crimes.

The complaint, which asks for damages in excess of $5 million for inflicting severe and permanent traumatic, mental, psychological and emotional injuries, alleges negligence on behalf of the basketball group and Grace Harbor Church for which the group was an outreach ministry.

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