Earl Wayne Gann, a girls junior varsity soccer coach at Ontario Christian High School, has been arrested for allegedly committing lewd acts with a student soccer player that he coached. (Ontario Police Department)
View: Letter to the Ontario Christian High School community regarding allegations brought against a girls soccer coach.
ONTARIO -- A girls junior varsity soccer coach at Ontario Christian High School has been arrested for allegedly committing lewd acts with a 14-year-old player.
Ontario Christian High officials have fired Earl Wayne Gann, 56, of Corona, who had a loaded firearm on him when he was arrested.
The school did not conduct a background check on Gann prior to his hiring about a year ago, Groen said.
"We're very sad to say in this situation we do not have a background check on file and we don't have it," Ontario Christian Schools Superintendent Ryan Groen.
"We're currently doing an internal investigation to discover why that is and correct that so it won't happen again."
Police officers started investigating Gann after he reportedly sexually assaulted a 14-year-old Ontario Christian soccer player on June 15.
The next day, the victim told school authorities that Gann inappropriately touched and kissed her while she was alone with him in the school's training room, according to a police news release.
School administrators forwarded a report of the incident on June 18 to the San Bernardino County
Child Protective Services.The agency then notified the Ontario police.
Detectives forwarded their case to the District Attorney's Office, which filed two felony counts of lewd acts with a child and issued a $750,000 warrant for Gann's arrest.
Gann was arrested without incident on Tuesday following a traffic stop conducted by Ontario police officers near his home in Corona.
The case will be forwarded to the Riverside County District Attorney's Office for review and filing of charges.
In a letter to parents, Groen wrote the administration had met with Gann and suspended "him from all interaction with his former soccer players.
"We are deeply saddened by these allegations and our prayers go out to any of our students or any other young people who may have been victimized."
Groen said his school customarily conducts background checks on faculty and staff members as well as coaches, volunteers or anyone who takes part in an overnight field trip.
Gann has coached the girls junior varsity soccer team for just the past year at the school.
Prior to that, he spent several years coaching in the American Youth Soccer Organization, and was most recently associated with the Eastvale/Norco AYSO region.
"He has been a parent in our school," Groen said.
"He's had girls who have played soccer and so we knew him as a parent and he was recommended that way."
Groen said the school will provide counseling to anyone in need of it because of the incident.
There's at least one person - the alleged victim - getting counseling outside of the school, he said.
Police officers have said Gann may have victimized other players or students, who might be reluctant to come forward and report the crime.
Anyone who has information about this incident can call detectives at 909-395-2949.
Staff writers Wes Woods II and Joe Blackstock contributed to this report.
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