Youth basketball coach is arrested for molesting children at sleepovers and offering $5,000 each to buy them after forcing teen to film chilling video message to his parents

A Florida younker hoops manager has been arrested implicit allegations helium molested children and offered their parents $5,000 each to bargain them. 

Carl Philip Lombardo, 58, a unpaid manager successful Ocala, was taken into custody past week by the Marion County Sheriff's Office pursuing an probe that began erstwhile parents claimed helium refused to instrumentality their 15-year-old from a sleepover connected August 31.

Lombardo had returned the teenager's siblings to their parents earlier that day, and allegedly sent the boy's parents a chilling video showing the kid pretending to constitute a missive saying helium wanted to enactment with Lombardo.

'He states, "I'm penning this letter... because..." past becomes emotional,' the video showed, according to an apprehension affidavit obtained by USA Today. 

'He drops his caput and helium cries, and the fishy tin beryllium heard connected the different broadside of the camera... saying "stop crying, conscionable bash it!"' 

When the boy's parents aboriginal said they were going to interaction instrumentality enforcement, the erstwhile manager said helium was not acrophobic due to the fact that helium 'works with schools and his estimation is spotless,' according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office. 

The teen was yet returned safely to his parents, but the incidental had sparked a transgression probe into Lombardo's actions, during which respective children told constabulary helium inappropriately touched them and took bare photos of them.

Then erstwhile deputies aboriginal made interaction with Lombardo, the fishy allegedly admitted helium tried to bargain children from their parents for $5,000 each and turned implicit 2 cellphones to constabulary - which they said contained galore photos of Lombardo cuddling with children, pictures of their feet and different kid intersexual maltreatment material.

The manager would aboriginal admit to officers that astatine slightest 1 of the pictures connected his cellphone depicted 1 of the juvenile victims, but offered 'contradicting statements astir wherefore the juveniles would disclose intersexual abuse, the beingness of [child pornography] connected his phones, and his claims that helium was trying to “save” the children from abuse,' authorities said.

Deputies present allege that Lombardo utilized his presumption arsenic a younker hoops manager to summation the spot of his victims' families to clasp sleepovers astatine his Ocala location aggregate times.

Lombardo would besides allegedly coerce the children done gifts, isolation and threats. 

'He developed a signifier of keeping the children for multiple-day stays, during which helium molested 2 of the juvenile victims, exposed himself to the children and photographed them inappropriately,' the Sheriff's Office claims.

'The abbreviated communicative present is Mr. Lombardo is an implicit predator,' Lt. Paul Bloom told WESH.

Neighbors person besides called him 'strange' and said thing ever seemed disconnected astir the 59 twelvemonth aged who lived alone.

'You could consciousness the vibe disconnected him,' Vanessa Velez told WCJB. 'My hubby from time 1 said it - helium seems similar a creep.'

Richard Foster, different neighbor, noted that helium would spot children astatine Lombardo's location astatine each hours of the day.

'We permission astatine 5 successful the greeting for enactment and travel location astatine 5 successful the afternoon, and they're retired determination astatine springiness successful the morning, and they're retired determination astatine 5 successful the day erstwhile we travel home,' helium said. 'It's conscionable precise odd, precise strange.'

Velez besides mentioned antecedently seeing children permission Lombardo's location successful tears.

'Kids travel retired crying and past my kids would inquire them "Are you guys OK? Everything OK?"' she recounted.

She said the children would past respond, 'Yeah, yeah, and past conscionable support connected walking.

'But it was concerning due to the fact that helium was not joined and helium does not person children of his own,' she said of Lombardo.

The erstwhile manager is present facing charges of quality trafficking of a kid for commercialized intersexual activity, interference with kid custody, lewd oregon lascivious molestation of a unfortunate little than 12 years of age, lewd and lascivious accumulation and 2 counts each of accumulation of kid pornography and possession of kid pornography. 

But authorities person said they judge determination whitethorn beryllium different victims 'due to the quality of these crimes, Lombardo’s erstwhile presumption arsenic a children’s hoops coach, and his evident predatory quality utilizing elements of isolation and control,' and are asking victims to travel guardant arsenic Lombardo is held without bond.