Dec 4 4:28 PM

Pa. field hockey coach charged with covering up player's rape

Screenshot of Kutztown Area High School website.
The Stream (Al Jazeera)

Two arrest warrants have been issued after the alleged rape of a Pennsylvania high school student - one for the alleged rapist, and another for the girl's field hockey coach, who was present during the rape and attempted to cover up the incident to save her job, according to police.

The victim, a 16-year-old Kutztown Area High School student, was staying with her coach, Alicia Colon, in a hotel room on August 3 to watch the Keystone State Games, an amateur athletic festival held in Harrisburg, Pa. According to police reports, Colon and a friend brought three men back to the hotel room where the victim and another minor were staying. The men and Colon had taken ecstasy and smoked marijuana before one of the men, 23-year-old Rafael Gomez-Echavarria (shown below), raped the girl during the night.

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