A former track coach who showed a 15-year-old male student a pornographic film and fondled his buttocks is going behind bars for three years.
Clyde Turner was sentenced Monday in the case. He argued unsuccessfully that the boy in question and another male student who also complained were out for revenge after he cut them from the John Muir High School track team.
In a related development, California's state Supreme Court has upheld a law allowing prosecutors to try suspected child molesters for crimes they're accused of committing decades before complaints were actually filed.
The ruling allows charges to be filed within a year of the case's reporting to authorities no matter when the crime in question actually happened.
This ruling is expected to affect dozens of California cases already in the court system, according to the Associated Press, which notes the ruling also contradicts rulings by other states' courts that such laws are unconstitutional.
In most other cases, California prosecutors must file charges within six years of the crime's occurrence.
