ABERDEEN — An ex-high school football coach who spent a long career in Mississippi and Alabama has been sentenced to 35 years in state prison in a Mississippi molestation case involving teenage boys.
Dwight Bowling was sentenced Tuesday in Monroe County Circuit Court.
In June, the 56-year-old Bowling pleaded guilty to numerous Mississippi state court charges of luring teenage boys into having sex.
Bowling was coaching for an Alabama school when he was arrested last September in Mississippi on his way home from a game. Authorities said a 13-year-old boy who was with Bowling at the time of his arrest accused him of improper touching.
On Aug. 16, he was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison in a molestation case.
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