Wrestling Coach Gave Students Alcohol, Fondled Them in Hotel: Police

YORKVILLE , IL — A visiting wrestling coach who was traveling through town with his team and staff is accused of providing alcohol to minors and sexual misconduct.

David Murphy, 29, of Mokena, was charged with multiple counts of aggravated battery and criminal sexual abuse, according to the Yorkville Police Department. The incident took place between Dec. 11 and Dec. 12 at the Hampton Inn in Yorkville.

According to Kendall County Now and the Daily Journal, Murphy turned himself in to police Friday. The charges involve five juveniles and an 18-year-old victim. All six were students and included four girls and two boys.

“Murphy performed a series of acts on the defendants during the course of one evening and the next morning,” the state’s attorney’s office told Kendall County Now.

Murphy is alleged to have made physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature, according to the report, and reportedly “pulled the victim’s pants back to expose her underwear, squeezed her buttocks and groped her breasts over her clothing,” Kendall County Now reports.

Charges also claim Murphy, while in a hotel room, “squeezed (another) victim’s buttocks, kissed her on the forehead and pulled back her pants to expose her underwear,” according to the article.

In addition, Murphy allegedly kissed another one of the victims on the cheek and lips and squeezed her butt and pulled her pants back to expose her underwear.

A male victim claimed Murphy ”looked me in the eyes and said his one goal in life is to kill another human being,”

Another victim said Murphy grabbed her by the neck and shoved her into a hotel room door and said, “If you don’t get them to open the door in 10 seconds I’ll break the (expletive) door down,” Kendall County Now reports.

Murphy also allegedly brought alcohol to the room for the students and told them “perverted stories,” according to one of the female victims.

According to the Daily Journal, Murphy worked as a social studies teacher at Herscher High School in addition to being a wrestling coach. He has since resigned from his position.

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