Judge Sentences High School Football Player In Assault Case

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DIETRICH, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge has sentenced a high school football player from Keller to three years of probation and 300 hours of community service after prosecutors said he took part in a brutal locker room assault on a black football player in a small Idaho town.

The Times-News reports that District Court Judge Randy Stoker issued his decision Friday.

John R.K. Howard was originally charged with sexually assaulting his classmate after prosecutors said he kicked a coat hanger into the victim's rectum during the October 2015 incident at Dietrich High School.

But in December, Howard pleaded guilty to felony injury to a child as part of a modified guilty plea, in which he acknowledged he would be found guilty in a trial but maintained his innocence.

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