Joshua Long
A former high-school basketball coach was bound over for trial Thursday on additional counts alleging he had sexual relations in June with a 16-year-old girl from Webb City.
The girl was the lone witness to testify at a preliminary hearing for Joshua Joseph Long, 30, of Oronogo, in Jasper County Circuit Court in Joplin.
At the conclusion of her testimony, Associate Judge Richard Copeland found probable cause for Long to stand trial on two additional counts of second-degree statutory rape and ordered the defendant to make an initial appearance Dec. 15 in a trial division of the court.
Long was ordered at a hearing on Oct. 30 to stand trial on a third count of second-degree statutory rape involving the same girl. Long now is accused of having sex with the girl on three occasions at his home. Copeland overruled a motion by Long’s attorney, Andy Woody, of Springfield, to have the two additional counts dismissed.
Long had been hired to be the girls basketball coach this year at East Newton High School at Granby. He was forced to resign when the allegations arose this summer, and he was charged Aug. 1. Authorities at the time said Long previously had been employed as a coach for the McDonald County and Carl Junction school districts.
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