Former Greenwich Swim Coach Receives 7-Year Jail Sentence

Seven years in prison — that’s the sentence handed down to the former Greenwich High School teaching aide and swim coach for the Greenwich Boys and Girls Club who was found guilty of inappropriately touching a student in the club’s showers.

Andrew Knapp, 31, of Riverside, who’s been free on $200,000 bond since his conviction by a jury in August, was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Bruce Hudock, according to Greenwich Time. Hudock sentenced Knapp to 10 years in prison but ordered that Knapp serve seven years.

The sentence also mandates Knapp register as a sex offender after he is released, serve five years probation, according to the report. He also will be prohibited from having contact with any minors, working in a capacity that puts him in contact with minors and from having any contact with the victim, who is now 15, and the child’s family for 50 years. Any violations of those terms, could force Knapp to serve the remainder of the jail sentence, according to the report.

A jury convicted Knapp of risk of injury to a minor following a three-day trial in August. The victim, who was 10 at the time, testified 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 also testified that Knapp ignored the boy’s pleas and soaped down his back on one occasion touching the top of the boy’s buttocks.

The Greenwich Time report can be found here.

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