Former local high school baseball coach to spend 10 years in prison for molesting a player

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On Tuesday, Virginia Beach Circuit Court Judge Patricia West sentenced former Bayside High School baseball coach Dennis Ray Collins, to 20 years in prison, with ten years suspended.

Collins, 53, pled guilty to one count of sexual penetration with an object, and one count of indecent liberties while in a custodial role.

Virginia Beach Commonwealth Attorney Harvey Bryant said that the abuse took place in Collins’ home.

The molestations occurred between 1986 and 1988. During the period in question, Collins was also a youth minister at Thalia Lynn Baptist Church in Virginia Beach.

His victim came forward and filed charges against Collins in the fall of 2009. Collins, who was living in Winston-Salem, NC at the time of his arrest, was extradited to Virginia Beach a few days before Christmas.
 

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