JACKSON — A high school football coach who spent a long career working in Mississippi and Alabama has been sentenced to 25 years in a child molestation case involving teenage boys.
Krisi Allen, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney”s office, says Dwight Bowling was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Greenville.
Bowling coached 28 years at Smithville High School in Monroe County, before retiring and taking a job at Sulligent High in Sulligent, Ala.
Bowling was coaching for the Alabama school when he was arrested in September in Mississippi while on his way home from a game. Authorities say a 13-year-old boy who was with Bowling at the time of his arrest accused him of improper touching.
Prosecutors say the investigation found at least four victims.
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