The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that a trial should be held for a former LaPorte High School volleyball coach on charges that she failed to report a relationship between a 15-year-old player and a 48-year-old coach.
MaryBeth Lebo faces two misdemeanor charges of Failing to Report Child Abuse or Neglect, and the Court of Appeals ruled that a trial should be held to determine whether Lebo knowingly and intentionally failed to inform the relationship between the girl and coach Robert Ashcroft, who had been sentenced to 21 years in prison for sexual misconduct and child seduction last year.
Ashcroft was convicted in July 2011 in the LaPorte Circuit Court of two counts of Sexual Misconduct with a Minor as a Class B felony and a Class C felony, and Child Seduction as a Class D felony.
Lebo can still appeal the ruling by the Court of Appeals.
