An Archdiocesan high-school baseball coach was arrested this week on charges stemming from two encounters with teenage boys.
Police arrested Louis Spadaccini, 37, Sept. 20 and charged him with rape, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, endangering the welfare of a child, simple assault, indecent assault and furnishing alcohol to a minor, for two separate incidents.
After being released on bail, Spadaccini, the varsity and JV baseball coach at Neumann-Goretti High School in South Philadelphia, was again taken into custody that night with charges from the second incident.
The initial charges were filed after Spadaccini allegedly took a 14-year-old boy to a Holiday Inn in South Philadelphia Sunday and gave him beer and a mixed drink spiked with a Xanax. The boy was visibly intoxicated when Spadaccini dropped him off at home, and his parents took him to the hospital and contacted police. There was no evidence of sexual contact in that case.
However, after those charges, a 13-year-old boy came forward and reported that, three separate times in July and August, Spadacinni sexually assaulted him at the same hotel and at Spadacinni’s home.
Spadaccini, who works part-time at the high school and full-time at the Court of Common Pleas, has been put on administrative leave at both.
Himself a Neumann grad, Spadaccini has coached the team for five years and led the effort to win two Catholic League championship, the school’s first in five decades.
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