(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!)
Loading ...I originally posted about Greg Burr here. He is in court now, and still laughing, in front of the judge and jury, about the times he hit his students in the nuts with basketballs, tennis balls, clipboards and other objects. He even put candy down his pants and then fed it to a student.
From FoxNews here:
A former high school basketball coach on trial for hitting players in the groin with basketballs, a clipboard and other objects took the stand Monday and called himself a fun-loving coach and that some players were lying.
Gregory Lynn Burr, 29, is charged with sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust and other counts. He is accused of hitting nine 14- to 16-year-old boys during the 2005-06 season at Monument Academy.
Burr, smiling and laughing as he recalled some of the incidents, recalled four incidents in which he said he hit players in the groin accidentally.
In one instance, he passed a basketball that hit a student in the groin. Burr said he wasn’t looking when he passed the ball and that he laughed, adding that he felt bad.
He also described how a player stuck a piece of candy down his pants then allowed another player to eat it, unknowingly.
District Judge David Miller has told jurors Burr is accused of assaulting the students for abuse, not sexual gratification.
I think it should be a requirement that the teachers are actually adults, not oversized child imbeciles.
Related Articles
15 people responded in this post
[...] earns a place on the bonehead pages — a Colorado high school coach from Monument Academy is standing trial for repeated offenses of hitting kids — in the groin. Twenty-nine-year-old Greg Burr has been [...]
I was one of the players on the girls’ team at monument academy, and i know coach greg really well. the things that were said about this are completely untrue, and i was there during greg’s testimony and the media is warping his responses. he is innocent, no matter what you think. he is a great coach, and was going to be the head coach the of the girls team before he was accused. we were all looking forward to him coaching us! i also know all of the boys on the team, and they are not trustworthy. if you had been at the trial, you would see that none of their stories match up. myself and another girl from the team have been able to disprove at least one accusation by taking the stand, and i cant wait until coach greg is acquitted. i will stand by him, no matter what is said against him!
mgeorge,
Thanks for writing in and letting us know the other side of this. What about previous reports that he had shown the boys pornography? And what about the boy who had to have surgery because Greg injured him?
he did not show them pornography. the guys were checking their myspaces or something, then they found some skateboarding videos, and one guy found pictures of elephantitis, which is when greg made them shut off the computer. i dont know how the boy got to the point of needing to have surgery, but i dont even think it happened during basketball season. greg is not a violent or abusive person, and he would never knowingly hurt someone.
Why would so many kids make these allegations?
not guilty on all charges but one of third degree assault.
also, the doctor said that the surgery was not necessarily caused by a hit to the groin, it was just one of many possibilities.
third degree assault = throwing a tennis ball at a boy going back and forth across a doorway
Jon and mgeorge, thanks for keeping me updated on this. Did he have to pay a fine for the assault? I can’t imagine that they would make him do jail time for that.
More importantly, will he work as a teacher again? Somehow I don’t think he will.
they havent done sentencing yet, but i think it will probably be community service or something. he said he wont coach ever again….. which makes sense, but its what he loves to do
This is no suprise to me. I went to college with Greg (Sterling College, KS) It was amazing to me how filthy he was. The things he would say were really disgusting. He was very immature, and I am not at all suprised that he has not changed.
First of all, he did do everything that was said about him. There were a couple of players who completely exaggerated and made up stupid stuff that wasn’t true, but that doesn’t take away from what really happened. I was a player on the team, and I can understand why some people don’t believe the charges, but they are completely true. He seems like a really nice guy, but in truth he is immature and childish. I was forced to have scrotal surgery BECAUSE OF THIS IDIOT!!!! Who would willingly undergo such painful surgery for no reason? Not me. Trust me, the surgery was needed and I know FOR A FACT it was caused by blunt trauma damage caused by repeated hits from various objects (Not my opinion, a doctor told me that). No one sees what a terrible man coach greg really is. He puts on a front to the world, but to us he was abusive and cruel and did routinely do everything that myself and some other players talked about. unfortunately, a terrible prosecution and lies from several students (if you were involved, you know whom i refer to) ruined the case. But from what I heard, hes divorced and homeless somewhere. He got what he deserved
Mlasswel,
Thanks for writing in. I hope you are healing okay. And isn’t it nice to see the bad guys get their justice?
That coach was one of the greatest men I have ever known. He changed my life and he continues to change the lives of others. Come to find out, his wife was having an affair (with his lawyer), his dad had a heart attack on the steps of the courthouse the night of the verdict and those young men (and they know who they were), lied extensively. I personally know Coach Burr and he is of the best character (even the God father of my children). Bad things happen to good people, it’s sad it happened to him. But unbeknown, he is helping homeless people. The young man that says his surgery had to happen, even had HIS doctor take the stand, and lets just say that the doctor said it could had been a birth defect (as it had to be to these twisted young men). The boy in question would regularily show his genitals to girls that went to school with him, plus there was MAJOR evidence that these young men struck each other daily. I was a teacher at the school and I was told to lie about situations…it was demented and I feel so bad…especially that these young men didn’t realize what kind of man they were coming against, seemingly one that cared deeply for them…even when their parents weren’t there. Did they mention that the coach was there for three years and not one person (other than these select few) EVER SAW ANYTHING. Burr was and is a leader, and it is pathetic. There was a book of over 300 character references, but the judge allowed nothing of MR. Burrs character as evidence…I think justice happened, but I am hopeful he will sue lots of people for slander and maliciousness. This man is amazing dealing with what he had to and still coming out on the other end okay…he is even being contracted to write a book, as his life did get worse after the fact, but he rose above…through the faith and dedication he tried to instill in the teams he coached. One quote I had wished made it to the paper and didn’t was “I am at least glad to see that some of these young men were able to play as a team, but it was the wrong court in which they created the plays to break apart all I had loved”…you spend some real time with this PERSON and the truth is evident..it’s also known that these young men were encouraged by two teacher that were having an affair, and there was no real principal at the school. These kids owe a severe apology, but they only have to convince themselves that it was the truth (although not), and live with what they had done to a man that actually cared. The kid that had surgery was the worst, the coach actually cared fot that young man, but now he gets to remember what treating a young man like a man gets you…taken advantage of. It was all so sad, but mark my words…this coach is one of the greatest men of value, character and integrity…just look at what he survived…could anyone have ever thought that these kids (yes kids) would have been coached enough in lying…to actually believe their accusations? I promise that there are plenty of examples throughout history that can point to the fact that can, does, and will happen. It was so sad, and for you or this kid to say he is horrid, lying, and deserves what he got…you are both the ones that belong on the stand, for the man I know endured, much more than many could do in the same situation. I knew and saw these kids hitting each other ALL THE TIME. And until G got to that school, there was nothing that even came close to real disipline, but if anyone was at trial, it was that, and that alone that was bitched about the majority of the time. Plus the kid with the surgury was caught in a few lies as well, but give him the soap box, he is man enough to continue to write about things even after they are over…a real victim would most likely work at becoming healed, instead of continuously pleading the case…AFTER 12 GROWN ADULTS found the truth other than what is still being put out there…guilty until innocent…guilty after innocence…what a world we live in. I emplore you to actually do whats right and look at it through the less accussing eyes…could you or any of those kids have the character to endure…who knows….but one thing is evident..this man continued on…that speaks volume in itself. Hope this gives a bit more clarification and I hope the young man in question can live with what he made up (even if somethings seemingly happened)…isnt it time to grow up, move on…and possibly understand the good that this man tried to instill. I would rather live homeless with a man of such worth than to hear the ignorance of the continued bull crap. pat, if you want to hear a true story of character…you should speak to the man that was supposedly in store for such pain…love…a wife, a sport, a job, and the team HE HELP DEVELOP, all gone…for what? Getting one charge out of 43 (starting out)…we should ask ourselves based on those numbers…what was it that was so rock solid that it should have put this man in prison? I say to you…a prosecutor with a law degree….12 adults…or do we listen to the banter of these liars…why do we feel bad for them, when we should say “move on”, the truth set coach free, what more is there? But blame on a bad prosecution, and people that couldn’t make their lies add up better to get the end result…the complete destruction of a good man. Hopskott
Burr was a moron, and I am not surprised that you are a loser teacher too. Stop slandering children on blogs. As you pointed out, justice was served, so get over it. I don’t care if Burr is feeding lepers in India- he was an idiot teacher.
Want to Say Something?
Your comments are appreciated. And don't forget to rate the post!