Former Greenwich Swim Coach Convicted

A former Greenwich High School teaching aide and swim coach for the Greenwich Boys and Girls Club has been convicted of risk of injury to a minor following a three-day jury trial in state Superior Court in Stamford.

A jury of four women and two men convicted Andrew Knapp, 31, of Riverside, on Thursday after five hours of deliberation, according to The Advocate. He was found not guilty of a second and more serious charge of fourth-degree sexual assault. Knapp is free on $200,000 bond and scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 2, according to the report.

The trial was the result of accusations from a 10-year-old boy who told his parents that Knapp appeared in the nude in the youth’s shower stall and asked him to soap down his back on four or five occasions after swim practice at the Boys and Girl’s Club in January and February 2010. The boy testified that Knapp soaped down his back on one occasion touching the top of the boy’s buttocks, according to the Advocate report, which can be found here.