In the spring of 1997, a 17-year-old member of the Pomona High School girls track and field team confronted Kitrick Taylor, the team’s coach and a former NFL wide receiver.
Taylor, the girl said according to a court filing, had gotten her pregnant.
Taylor began having sexual intercourse with the girl, referred to as Jane Doe 2 in court documents, a year earlier during a trip to a track meet in Las Vegas when the 33-year-old coach had sex with the girl at a Days Inn motel while Pomona High girls basketball head coach Brian Crichlow had sex with a 16-year-old girl, Jane Doe 1, in the same room in an adjacent bed, according to allegations made in court records.
Now, the girl told Taylor she needed to “take care of a pregnancy,” according to the filing.
Taylor paid for the abortion and arranged for another Pomona Unified School District to drive the girl to the abortion clinic. After the abortion was completed, the employee drove the student back to Pomona High “to attend her remaining classes for the day,” according to allegations in court records.
The woman sued Taylor, Crichlow and the Pomona Unified School District in September 2020. A settlement in the case was reached on December 17, 2021.
Yet Taylor and Crichlow continue to work with children and young women.
Taylor currently works at a treatment center for abused and at-risk children between the ages of 6 and 14 while Crichlow is the head women’s basketball coach at Mount San Antonio College in Walnut where he has led the Mounties to California Community College Athletic Association state championships.
Crichlow, Taylor and current Ganesha High School girls basketball head coach Vincent Spirlin have continued to work with young women despite being accused by seven women in the past three years of either having sex with underage female Pomona High School students during the 1990s or witnessing other coaches sexually abusing students and not reporting the abuse, a Southern California News Group…
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