Judge won't send former Wake coach convicted of molestation back to jail
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Parents of five girls molested by a former Wake County coach expressed anger Thursday after a judge refused to send him back to jail.
Raymond Green was a girls' softball coach for several leagues in Wake County and spent three years as a coach with the Raleigh's Parks and Recreation Department prior to his arrest in 2012.
He was convicted in December 2012 of molesting five of his players and his jail sentence was suspended in lieu of three years of probation.
One of the conditions of probation was that Green have no contact with his victims and their families.
He was in court again Thursday because police say he walked into a Raleigh used car dealership last month where the father of one of the girls worked.
He left the building but stayed in the parking lot until a manager told him to leave.
It was the second time it had happened.
In July of last year, Green was ordered by the same judge he faced Thursday to spend three days in jail after he ate lunch in a restaurant knowing one of the victims was there.
But this time, Judge Howard Manning ruled that Green did not violate his probation because he left the building where the victim's father was.
"Unbelievable, unbelievable, cannot understand how the judge could, could not impose any type of sentence whatsoever on a second probation violation," the father of one of the unidentified victims.
Some of the parents made comments to Green on his way out the door. That caused a dust-up as one of Green's attorneys asked a courtroom deputy to do something.
In the end, everyone was ordered out of the courtroom for the lunch break and parents voiced their anger to reporters.
"The pain that all of us went through with our daughters, it took a toll on us. It was, uh, it was very difficult to get through. And when we've made it through this far and something like this comes back up it just resurfaces all the pain," said the mother of one of the unidentified victims. "It brings all that pain back."
