Mount San Antonio College has no plans to take action against Brian Crichlow, the school’s women’s basketball coach, who has been accused by three women since 2021 of sexually abusing them in the 1990s while they were students at Pomona High School while he was a teacher at the school.
Crichlow, who has led Mt. SAC to four state junior college titles, Ganesha High girls basketball head coach Vincent Spirlin and two other Pomona High School employees were named in a lawsuit filed by three former Pomona High students this week in Los Angeles Superior Court that alleges Crichlow and Spirlin sexually abused them when they attended the school, provided them with alcohol and marijuana on school grounds, and track coach Kitrick Taylor and the two other employees witnessed the abuse.
A woman, identified as Jane Doe 5 in the lawsuit, alleges that Crichlow began sexually abusing her in the fall of 1996 when she was a 14-year-old freshman. Crichlow, according to the suit, had provided the girl with alcohol and marijuana and had sex with her in the locker room and other places on the Pomona High campus during school hours, at the homes of other coaches and other locations around Pomona. Coaches and employees also provided passes that allowed the girl to leave class to meet with Crichlow and that Taylor, Spirlin and two other coaches witnessed the abuse, according to the suit.
The girl left Pomona High after her freshman year, the suit alleges, in part because she was embarrassed about being referred to around the school as “Brian Crichlow’s girlfriend.”
The suit against the Pomona Unified School District, Crichlow, Spirlin, and two other coaches is seeking damages arising from childhood sexual abuse.
Mt. SAC officials said they were aware of the lawsuits but Crichlow’s job was not in jeopardy.
“There have not been any allegations of sexual misconduct against Mr. Crichlow at Mt. SAC. Allegations of sexual misconduct at other institutions are outside of…
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