CEDAR RAPIDS (IA)
Yahoo Sports
May 3, 2019
By Jason Owens
A judge sentenced an influential AAU coach to 180 years in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation charges involving more that 400 boys under his watch.
Former Iowa Barnstormers youth basketball coach Greg Stephen received the maximum sentence from U.S. District Judge C.J. Williams, who said that Stephen deserved to spend the rest of his life in prison.
“The harm the defendant caused to the children is incalculable and profound,” Williams said in a Cedar Rapids, Iowa court, per the Associated Press.
Stephen, 43, faced a minimum of 15 years in prison and saw his pleas for leniency unanswered.
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