Bad Bad Teacher

(1/25/08 - Initial BBT Report)

Fred Standifer Jr., 48, coach of the junior varsity girls basketball team at Lake Region High School in Eagle Lake, Florida has been arrested on charges of solicitation of sexual battery on a victim younger than 18, lewd conduct, false imprisonment and battery.

It is alleged that Standifer had touched two female players, ages 15 and 16, inappropriately several times between August to the present. Standifer came to the attention of authorities when one of the girls complained to a school resource officer.

One girl told investigators that Standifer locked her in a room and commanded her to pull her pants down and have sex with him and that he had touched her inappropriately on multiple occassions. The second girl said that Standifer had touched her buttocks and made improper statements to her.

Standifer works full time at a Department of Juvenile Justice halfway house and is paid to coach at the school. He does not teach any classes at the high school.

Bond for Standifer was set at $150,500 total.

1/30/08 - Released on Bail

Fred Standifer Jr. was released on $150,000 bail Friday.

References:

Coach Facing Sex Charges Posts Bail (1/30/08)

Lake Region names interim
coach; bail set for Standifer (1/25/08)

Girls’ Coach Arrested on Sex Charges (1/24/08)

Lake Region High coach arrested for lewd conduct (1/24/08)

Lake Region Assistant Basketball Coach Arrested on Sex-Abuse Charges (1/23/08)