PHILADELPHIA (PA
Philadelphia Daily News
BY MENSAH M. DEAN
Philadelphia Daily News
Daily News Staff Writer
Louis Spadaccini, the Catholic high school baseball coach and city court employee arrested in September for allegedly drugging and sexually molesting boys from his team, has decided not to plead guilty.
“Coach Lou,” as he was known at Ss John Neumann and Maria Goretti Catholic High School, was expected to admit his guilt Monday morning, but instead his attorney told a judge that Spadaccini, 37, wants a jury trial.
While Spadaccini was kept out of sight in a holding cell, his alleged victims – in school uniforms – and their parents were in court waiting for a confession that did not come.
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