DOWNINGTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- A former high school football coach was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl.
According to the Chester County District Attorney's Office, Kenneth Walls, 76, of Downingtown, is charged in connection with the sexual abuse of a child, now 12 years old, from 2020 to 2022.
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Walls is a former staff football coach at Downingtown West High School and recently volunteered as a coach for the football team.
He is charged with multiple counts of aggravated indecent assault, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse and related charges.
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Walls is being held at Chester County Prison on $100,000 cash bail.
"The child victim in this case showed tremendous courage by telling a mandated reporter at her school about this awful abuse. The defendant engaged in a common pattern of child predators: he lavished the child with gifts, took her shopping, and made her feel special. In fact, he was grooming her and her family by duping them into thinking he was a kind and generous man. These despicable criminal violations will have life-altering consequences for this child and her family, and we will do everything possible to get justice for them," said District Attorney Deb Ryan.