Former LA high school athletic trainer pleads no contest to charges tied to sexual assaults of 12 teens


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@sbsun— Richard Alexander Turner, 65, was sentenced Monday to 36 years in state prison. He worked at San Fernando Valley schools.

MyNewsLA.com—Ex-High School Athletic Trainer Pleads No Contest to Sex Assault Charges. A former athletic trainer who worked at two high schools in the San Fernando Valley pleaded no contest Monday to felony charges stemming from the sexual assaults of 12 teenage girls. Richard Alexander Turner, now 65, was immediately sentenced to 36 years in state prison and ordered to register as a sex offender for life […]

MYHIGHPLAINS—Perryton High School athletic director arrested on charge of ‘sexual assault of a child’. The Perryton High School athletic director was arrested on a warrant for “sexual assault of a child,” according to the Ochiltree County Sheriff’s Office.

Los Angeles Times—School athletic trainer gets 36 years for sexually assaulting 12 female students. A former high school athletic trainer accused of sexually assaulting a dozen teenage girls was sentenced Monday to 36 years in prison after pleading no contest to felony charges, officials said. Richard Alexander Turner, 65, entered the plea during a preliminary hearing to determine whether there was enough evidence for the case to go to trial, court records show. He pleaded no contest to 13 counts of sexual assault involving 12 girls, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's...