Lacking highschool soccer coach Travis Turner is dealing with time behind bars if he’s discovered alive after a weeks-long search.
Turner, 46, was charged with 5 counts of kid pornography and 5 counts of utilizing a pc to solicit a minor shortly after fleeing his Virginia residence on November 20.
The solicitation cost carries “a extra severe sentence” of between 5 to 30 years in jail, prosecutor Bobby Taghavi instructed the Every day Mail on Wednesday, December 3.
If convicted, Turner could be pressured to register as a intercourse offender, which means he would now not be permitted to work as a soccer coach or bodily training instructor.
Turner has labored as a coach at Union Excessive Faculty since 2011.
“Somebody like Travis Turner [if he is guilty] is sitting ready the place his life as he is aware of it’s, for all intents and functions, over,” mentioned Taghavi, who isn’t concerned within the Turner case. “He’ll now not be a coach, he’ll now not be a instructor, he’s in all probability going to have loads of points inside his household and inside the group, particularly while you’re residing in a small group with somebody who’s high-profile like him.”
Turner disappeared into the wooded space behind his residence with a gun, in accordance with an announcement from the household’s lawyer on Friday, November 28.
The coach’s residence is in Clever, Virginia, which has a inhabitants of lower than 3,000, in accordance with the 2020 census.
Whereas Turner’s household has supported him amid his disappearance — his spouse, Leslie Caudill Turner, instructed the Every day Mail on November 25 that the fees towards him should not “true” — Taghavi mentioned the household wouldn’t bear any duty “so long as they didn’t know and so long as they weren’t complicit.”
Taghavi mentioned there may be “no proof” to recommend that Leslie, who has been married to Travis since 2001, was in any means concerned or educated of her husband’s alleged actions.
“They’re additionally victims,” Taghavi mentioned in regards to the household. “It’s very embarrassing to them, there’s a social stigma of, ‘How might you not know? Had been you in on it?’’”
Travis and Leslie share three youngsters: sons Bailey, 25, and Grayden, 21, and daughter Brynlee, 11.
The US Marshals Service joined the hunt for Turner on Monday, December 1, the identical day they issued a $5,000 reward for details about his whereabouts.
The Union Excessive Faculty soccer staff is constant their pursuit of the Virginia Excessive Faculty League Area 2D title after advancing to the semifinals on Saturday, November 29, simply 9 days after their head coach, Travis Turner, disappeared with out a hint. The Bears defeated rival Ridgeview Excessive Faculty within the quarterfinal recreation 21-14, seemingly ready […]
“The search stays lively and ongoing with the help of the US Marshals Service and FBI,” a spokesperson for the Virginia State Police instructed Us Weekly on Wednesday. “We’re nonetheless asking for the general public’s help in offering any data that will result in Turner’s whereabouts.”
VSP mentioned they’re “following up on all ideas acquired” and urged any particular person with a tip about Turner’s location to name 911 or the Virginia State Police, or go to usmarshals.gov/ideas.
“On behalf of the household of Travis Turner, I want to specific their honest gratitude to all who’ve proven concern throughout this troublesome time,” the household’s lawyer, Adrian Collins, mentioned in his assertion on Friday.
The assertion added, “It’s the household’s prayer that Travis is protected and can have the chance to defend himself in a courtroom of regulation.”
