100-Year Sentence for Rapist Track Coach

MOUNT VERNON, NY — A track coach who raped and abused one of the girls he coached for years — both on a private team and at her high school — has been handed a 100-year prison sentence.

Acting Westchester County District Attorney James A. McCarty announced that Samuel Davis of Rich Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York, was sentenced Tuesday to 100 years in state prison after having been found guilty at trial in June of:

• One count of Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree, a Class ”B” Violent Felony
• Seven counts of Rape in the Second Degree, Class “D” Violent Felonies
• Two counts of Criminal Sexual Act in the Second Degree, Class “D” Violent Felonies
• One count of Sexual Abuse in the First Degree, a Class “D” Violent Felony
• Three counts of Rape in the Third Degree, Class “E” Felonies

Prosecutors said Davis, 38 abused the high-schooler repeatedly between 2012 and 2015.

Mount Vernon Police became aware of the abuse in April of 2015, after word of the sexual relationship between Davis, an assistant coach on a private track team, and one of the children on the team began to circulate among her team community and after the child told a relative of his prolonged abuse of her.

The investigation then involved the Special Prosecutions Division of the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office, who worked with the Mount Vernon Police Department and the Westchester County Child Advocacy Center, to investigate the case. The investigation revealed that Davis also acted as a volunteer track coach at the child’s high school in the Bronx.

Davis was remanded into the custody of the New York State Department of Corrections.

Assistant District Attorney Mary Clark DiRusso, Deputy Bureau Chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau, and Assistant District Attorney Owein Levin of the Special Prosecutions Division prosecuted the case.