Huntington Uni drama

Update from Huntington. They have hired Lauren as their new head coach. Good for Lauren!

What is going on?? So they hire the wife who retains the last name of the coach that was fired for child seduction and kidnapping. Their assistant coaches are lying about who is there and who left. Now their head track coach Childs was massaging the legs of their women at the conference meet this weekend. What the jeepers is going on? How can HU condone all of this? How can this continue? Someone has to put a stop to this. The whole thing reeks and just puts young kids in danger of even more harm than was already done. It's a small college, there is no way that everyone didn't know what was going on. Now they try to cover it all up and continue with the same behavior. If I were an athlete there I would get out>

Any more news on what’s going on here? Are Lauren and Nick still together? Is he is jail? Will there be a trial? It’s been months and this is still so crazy.

Pickled, do you sit in on Lauren and victims conversations? Do you personally know that lauren sits down and talks about this athlete about going pro or becoming an olympian? And how do you even know who the victim is? I went through all the documents and it never lists a victim. So can you please share how you found this information?

Funny. I also have a VERY close connection. I sat in the pre trial meeting actually.

In fact I know that Lauren didn't meet the victim until the victims freshman year and the victims coach set up the meeting between her and lauren.

So obviously your not that good of a family friend of you have that information wrong.

Also since I was at the Pre trial I know it was the State that offered the plea deal! Nick didn't even ask for it... So maybe the charges weren't what we thought they were

HUNTINGTON, Ind. (WPTA) - Court documents show a plea agreement has been filed in the case against a man facing child seduction charges stemming from an alleged relationship with a teen while he was a track coach.

Probable cause documents allege that Nicholas E. Johnson used someone else’s identity to establish a relationship with a teenage girl with whom he later had sexual contact while he was working as a Huntington University track and cross country coach. The university said Johnson is no longer employed there.

Johnson was originally charged with four felonies: two counts of child seduction, kidnapping, and identity deception.

A plea agreement filed in the case shows Johnson intends to plead guilty to the charge of identity deception. The agreement requests a cap of 180 days on the executed sentence and also requests that a no-contact order be issued for the victim. The agreement must still be accepted by a judge, and if it is, he could be sentenced to between six months and 2 1/2 years. His next hearing is set for Feb. 7.

https://www.wpta21.com/2021/12/29/plea-agreement-filed-case-against-huntington-coach-facing-child-seduction-charges/

LRC note: We are consolidating this post from another thread by the same author

Looks like this has been resolved.

h-ponline.com

Former HU cross country coach sentenced

BRETT STOVER bstover@h-ponline.com

Former Huntington University cross country coach Nicholas Johnson was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to identity deception.

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Can we talk about the fact that even after Johnson was charged, his wife is still coaching at HU. It all seems very suspicious and weird that the university would allow this. Especially since it looks like she hasn’t divorced/separated from him? Also weird that all the recent threads regarding this have been deleted.

Why do I think you are either the disgraced coach or a close relation? Before he was fired he was charged with child seduction and kidnapping and the only reason he was able to plea to the lesser charge was because the victim refused to cooperate. That is in the public court documents. And now it appears that he is still affiliated with ther school program through his wife.

All that said, maybe this would have all been brushed under the table, but it just so happens that a top national Div 1 recruit who just so happens to train with the former coache's wife just made the very odd choice of decommitting from a major Div. 1 program a week before the semester started to run at an NAIA school with the guy's wife as the coach. Sorry but that is going to make people notice and wonder what exactly is going on.