Poor girl. I think I know who it is, she is the only sophmore on the Varsity team, so it narrows it down really fast.

West coach held on charges


By Jessica Bock
Wausau Daily Herald
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A judge ordered a Wausau West coach and teacher taken into custody after his initial court appearance this afternoon.


Mitch King, 40, must post a $15,000 cash bond before he can be released from the Marathon County Jail while facing 10 felony charges stemming from what prosecutors called a "sexually charged obsession" with a 15-year-old Wausau West student whom he coached on the high school's varsity girls basketball team.

Marathon County Circuit Court Judge Dorothy Bain ordered that if King posts the $15,000, he also must sign a $35,000 signature bond. Assistant District Attorney LaMont Jacobson had asked the judge to order a $30,000 cash bond.

"I see serious crimes, I see a profound breach of trust ... and I see a dangerous obsession," Jacobson argued.

King's attorney, Jim Connell, argued that a signature bond was appropriate because King has no criminal record and no intention of evading the charges.
"He's going to face them," Connell said.

King has family and friends here in the community who support him, Connell said.

Prosecutors filed charges on Tuesday of five counts of sexual assault of a child, three counts of child enticement, sexual assault of a child by school staff and one count of exposing a child to harmful material, according to the criminal complaint. If convicted, he could be sentenced to more than 250 years in prison.

King has been suspended by the Wausau School District from his teaching and coaching duties.