(10/19/09 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)
Brandon Figurski, 20, a former volunteer assistant swim coach at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan has reportedly been charged on allegations of sending sexually explicit texts to two 15-year-old female members of the diving team.
Figurski is reportedly charged with felony counts of child sexually abusive activity, using a computer to commit a crime and communicating with another to commit a crime.
It is alleged that Figurski via text message repeatedly asked the students to send him explicit pictures of themselves and discussed having both girls engage in sex acts.
Figurski came to the attention of police when one of the girl’s parents discovered the text messages and turned the phone over to the police. As a result, a computer crime detective assumed the identity of both girls and took over their cell phones.
Oakland County Sheriff’s investigators continued to pose as the teens and set up a meeting with Figurski for August 31. When Figurski went to meet with who he thought would be one of the girls, he was instead confronted by sheriff ’s deputies and arrested.
In September, Figurski was arraigned and his bond was set in the amount of $50,000.
Figurski is being held in the Oakland County Jail in lieu of bond with a pretrial court date set for October 22 and a trial date set for November 5th.
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Exactly. this is just ridiculous. Those girls had to be explicit to draw him in. So why does he get in trouble for being human?
Brandon is a sweet heart. This wouldn’t have gone so far if the two “innocent” 15 year olds weren’t texting him right back. They could have ignored him and let it all go. Obviously something was said by them to encourage it. I feel REALLY bad for brandon. This is soo wrong!
I agree with most of the things posted on here..
I’ve known Brandon for quite sometime, and yes he did LOVE girls, but he wasnt out to hurt anyone.
Maybe he did take it to far yes, but he does NOT desurve to have his entire life ruined over a mistake he made, people get away with actually RAPING people everyday but the minute someone catches wind of a 20 year old texting an underage girl its considered unlawful?
These girls egged him on and he, being a man, wanted what virtually every guy wants.
Brandon Figurski is a sweetheart, and for one mistake to mess up everything he has worked for in his life, to mess up everything is wrong.
He will no longer be able to attend school finctions or work at any place where care is family or child oriented… that is messed up.
It’s not like he’s going to screw some 10 year old girl, and its not like he would actually rape someone.
So why so harsh?
Brandon is one of the nicest guys I ever met and I can’t even believe this story. Knowing Brandon as long as I have this story sounds like it has been twisted!!
Brandon is not the type at all to do something like this, and I hope that things turn out right in the end.
We love you Brandon!!!!
it is unfortunate that this is the story that is being spread around in the news.
I can tell you 100% knowledge that 1)he NEVER touched these girls 2)he stated in one text message that he “does not have time for this… i just want to be your friend”, after which the detective continued to still try to bait him.
please stop assuming that what you read on the internet is the full story. it is nowhere close.
currently brandon is being held with people around his age that ACTUALLY TOUCHED AND HAD SEX with girls in their teens and are facing less of a sentence than he is… how does that make sense?
I have met Brandon as well, I didnt find him to be nice at all. He is one of the most pathetic people i’ve ever met in my years. and He knew very well what he was doing. He has that type of attitude all the time. Hes cocky and he thinks that he can do whatever he wants. The laws are the laws, you cant speak to your students like that and you cant speak to underage girls that way. He needs to grow up and hopefully this is a reality check. Karma for him, hes wronged a lot of people. I hope justice is served.
“His whole life ruined.” Perhaps — and it’s just a thought — he shouldn’t have done it. This wasn’t a harmless flirtation, an innocent touch on the shoulder or congratulatory hug that someone misinterpreted. He lit the fuse, nobody else. It’s scary that someone would consider him the victim. But that’s our society today.
I’ve met Brandon and he is one of the nicest guys ever. But he also loves girls, and our laws make that illegal. I don’t agree with them, in the early years of America, girls were getting married at 14 to 45 year olds.
Now if a 15 or 16 year old talks dirty, or tries to hang out with anyone older then them, they go to jail.
It’s just ridiculous.
The sad truth is that “when” he gets convicted of a sex crime, he will forever be labeled a sex offender. When he’s 40, 50, 60 years old he will be on a website stating in big bold letters that he is a child sex offender. So sad. The guy is 20. He did a STUPID thing. Our laws are screwed up. He doesn’t deserve to have his whole life ruined for this.