Coach accused of sexually assaulting a female student, taking her on a trip out of the town and proclaiming his love for her. Adrian Julio Lovera, aged 31, who is working as a coach for diving and soccer at Niles West High School, and the girl, whom he had been coached in diving, had agreed to start dating shortly before the Christmas after the two of them communicated through phone calls, text messages and Facebook, the Cook County prosecutors said on Friday.
Diving season at the Skokie school had ended about a month before when Lovera took the 17-year-old girl to the Blackhawks game and dinner on Dec. 23, the Assistant State’s Attorney Ed Murillo said.
Murillo said, that night Lovera kissed her and two days later on Christmas Lovera gave the girl a rose and drove her to the McDonald’s.
At the fast food joint Lovera kissed her, and minutes later after parking about a block away from the girl’s home he kissed her again, Murillo said.
Murillo also sad that, the two kissed during the run along Lake Michigan a few days later. But Lovera crossed the line further when he took the girl to his friend’s apartment while the pal was away and he kissed her and made groped her chest and between her legs.
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Then, in the last month at the Lovera’s apartment, which is in the 4000 block of North Western, the two had sex, Murillo said.
Murillo said, around Jan. 19, Lovera took the girl to Ann Arbor to watch a concert and also to stay at a hotel. When they traveled back to Chicago and were in the Lovera’s apartment, he told the teenager that he loved her.
The next day, Lovera and the girl acknowledged that they should end up their relationship because it was inappropriate and that Lovera could lose his job or go to jail, Murillo said.
A few days later, the girl’s brother saw a note from Lovera on her iPad telling that he loved her, Murillo said. He contacted the authorities, leading to Lovera’s arrest.
The defense attorney Adam J. Sheppard noted a “delay” in the girl’s outcry and added that his client is close to his family, which includes a brother who served in the Marine Corps and a mother who works at theTarget.
Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil ordered Lovera held in lieu of $75,000 bail for the criminal sexual assault. Kuriakos Ciesil also ordered Lovera to stay away from the internet while awaiting trial.
Before Murillo detailed the allegations in the court on Friday, Kuriakos Ciesil told him and Sheppard that she had attended the Niles Township District 219 schools and asked if they were all right with her setting bond in the case.
Lovera’s prosecutors said that he was 30 when the relationship started, and was placed on administrative leave when the District 219 officials learned of the allegations on Jan. 23.
Lovera started working in the district as a substitute teacher in 2010, according to the statement from Jim Szczepaniak, District 219’s director of community relations. Lovera has coached boys and girls diving at the Niles West since 2011 and began working as a paraprofessional in the Special Education Department at Niles North in 2013, the statement said. He was also named head coach of the girls soccer at Niles West two years ago.
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