USA Swimming permanently revoked the coaching privileges for Savannah Reis. She and her husband Fernando are the coaches of Performance Elite Aquatics in Madison County. A Rankin County grand jury recently indicted her for two counts of sexual battery. The victim was a male teen swimmer at PEAQ. The organization's website states:
Fernando was the Business Manager at Hartfield Academy. However, he is no longer mentioned on the school website. Savannah was a teacher at Madison Station Elementary. She is currently on administrative leave.
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D-I-V-O-R-C-E....
So what has this done to PEAQ? Are they still practicing and competing? Who's in charge?
PEAQ is all but finished. Makos and Sunkist are basically holding a draft for their best swimmers.
My question is whether her position at PEAQ meets the statutory definition of "coach" in Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-95(2), which is the statute under which she is charged. (Was it a paid position? Was it legally affiliated with the school system? etc. Does it matter?) This may be a case for the Miss. Supreme Court to interpret that law.
Considering she's facing a maximum of 30 years in the Penitentiary, she may have nothing to lose by finding out what "coach" really means for the purposes of the "sexual battery" statute.
Hartfield can’t afford to pay 250k a year and have this kind of baggage causing bad publicity for them.
This woman has not been tried or convicted, why all the presumption of quilt/
9:49, she admitted guilt to the Investigator and more than like.y the act was committed at their home.
So did he know something and fail to report it? Is that how Harfield justifies his firing? I realize we’re a no contract state, but if they fired him simply due to the scandal than they should be ashamed.
That would be guilt, not quilt. Let's put it this way. I know the teen and he still can't wipe the smile off his face. He is also called "The Man" around town.
Dustin Hoffman also sent him congratulations.
That's enough for me.
Business Manager at Hartfield, and he made $250,000? If this is true, they sure won’t have any trouble replacing him.
As I said before, an almost 18 year old that ties up with that ain’t a “victim” in any sense of the word. Good grief.
Well, she being the adult SHOULD HAVE KNOWN the repercussions! he has 50% fault in ruining the couples career. Who knows, maybe her husband knew and liked it..... next move is to reunion and hang a pineapple on the door
Former PEAQ parent here. Fernando Reis is a good man and a phenomenal swim coach. He poured his heart and soul into that team and it's heartbreaking to see this happen all because his wife is an idiot. To describe Savannah as a "coach" with any authority over this kid is ludicrous. She'd occasionally sit in a chair on the swim deck and supervise when Fernando had other things going on, but honestly I'm not even sure she knows how to swim. I never heard her give one word of actual coaching advice to anyone.
I have never seen so many sick people in my life. All these comments would be different if the accuser was female and the accused was a male. None of the posters on here can be parents and if you are I pray for your kids.
Hartfield has a morality clause since they are a religious private school. They recently fired a teacher for "co-habitation" because she went on a cruise with her boyfriend. Her husband had passed away 2+ years ago. Hartfield isn't what it projects itself to be.
I've never seen a news outlet post about such a horrible situation with such zeal.
Fairly certain that Savannah swam for Tupelo High School and Delta State.
No doubt that KF was picked on for being a nerdy kid and this is his way of paying the world back.
Should have gotten herself a sugar daddy and she wouldn’t have been arrested. Some women think with....wait. They don’t have two heads. My bad.
She might have screwed a 17 year old who is almost grown by society’s standards but she is a sexual predator and she does not need to be tempted or tempt someone else who may be even younger than her last victim. So, if she was a lonely housewife at the Kroger on Lakeland would that make it ok? No. She was in a position of TRUST with young children Like the poster above said. She should have gotten an older man At least she would have made a little money
17 year old players aren’t young children.
Five year old kindergarteners are going children.
But nice try.
2:22 - She swam for Delta State as Savannah Valentine. She knows how to swim.
But you do bring up an interesting point. I wonder if her defense is going to be that she wasn't "his" coach. My understanding is that she worked with the younger swimmers and he worked with the older swimmers. If there is no "coach" label, there is nothing illegal about sexual contact between her and a 17 year old. Immoral, disgusting, yes. But illegal - no.
Isn't the arraignment this Friday?
The repeats of the sugar daddy guy are creeping me out...just sayin. There’s an app for that.
She was assumed by swim-members and parents to be a 'coach'. She held herself out as a 'coach'. She and her husband offered the appearance of coming as a 'coach package'. She gave instruction. She was in a position of supervision and authority. She gave advice and council as a 'coach'. She therefore was a 'coach'.
She might not go to jail, but she'll be renting a Uhaul.
And Kingfish will have to fall back on 'Hottest News Anchors and Weather-Girls'.
It’s scaring me too!
What is scary about the Sugar Daddy reference?
I remember, before Penthouse, when we could buy little paperbacks with stories like this.
Some of you are putting too much emphasis on the coach thing. The statute provides that a person is guilty of sexual battery "if the person is in a position of trust or authority over the child including _without limitation_" So it really doesn't matter if she was actually the younger kids coach, etc. She worked there. Reasonable that she was in a position of trust and authority. A parent driving a carpool can be in a position of trust and authority.
12:07, I'm not sure the civil law of apparent authority applies to the criminal statute.
8:27. What’s a paperback? Is that an iPad still in the box? Please explain that
8:47, when a statute provides a list, it is generally construed to be exhaustive. In other words, if it ain’t listed, it was left out intentionally. Were it not so, and the statute means what you say, it will likely be struck down as unconstitutionally vague.
The 'not a coach' argument didn't work well for 11:21 (after six attempts), so now he's off on another tangent...'unconstitutionally vague'.
What has changed to make everyone go from “she is innocent” to “it’s not a crime cause they were almost 18”?
She's a nice looking lady. And a jury may take pity on her when the young buck testifies looking more like a stud thoroughbred than an defenseless rape victim.
8:34, I once mentioned that I questioned whether she meets that statutory definition of "coach." Then, in response to a suggestion that the sexual battery statute applies to car pool drivers, I wrote that such an application would probably render the statute unconstitutionally vague. That's not a tangent, it's actually how statutes are interpreted. Please learn to count, then demand a refund of your law school tuition.
-9:40/11:21
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