{"id":48362,"date":"2014-01-28T23:01:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=48362"},"modified":"2014-01-29T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T17:16:11","slug":"child-molestation-trial-opens-against-former-av-soccer-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2014\/01\/28\/child-molestation-trial-opens-against-former-av-soccer-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Child molestation trial opens against former AV soccer coach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Renoir Valenti aka Raynard Haylock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LANCASTER \u2013 Opening statements were made Tuesday in the trial of Renoir Valenti<\/strong>, the longtime Antelope Valley youth soccer coach charged with molesting or sexually abusing more than a dozen underage boys.<\/p>\n

Valenti,\u00a0an American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) coach and referee for several years,\u00a0was arrested Aug. 6, 2012 at his Quartz Hill home. The arrest came after a next door neighbor reported that her son had been molested by Valenti.<\/p>\n

Two days after his arrest, Valenti was charged with felony continuous sexual abuse of a child and annoying or molesting a child. Over the course of the criminal investigation, 15 alleged victims were identified, including five current or former soccer players Valenti coached.<\/p>\n

During a four-day preliminary court hearing in October of 2012, some of the victims, along with law enforcement personnel, gave graphic testimony about the alleged abuse. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his opening statement Tuesday, Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami used a PowerPoint presentation to lay out for jurors a timeline of Valenti’s alleged crimes.<\/p>\n

Born Raynord Haylock in 1959, Valenti illegally changed his name, date of birth and social security number in 1986, Hatami said. Valenti moved to Palmdale in the 1990s, and he molested numerous children in the Antelope Valley, with allegations going back to 1995 involving a 5-year-old boy, Hatami said. The majority of Valenti\u2019s victims were young boys with blond hair and were between 5 and 10-years-old when the molestation or sexual abuse occurred, Hatami said.<\/p>\n

One of the victims is Valenti’s son, who was 10-years-old when he told authorities that his father molested him, Hatami said.<\/p>\n

Also included in the list of victims is Valenti\u2019s ex-wife, who was just 13 when she started dating the 27-year-old Valenti, Hatami said. Valenti \u00a0met the girl through her 8-year-old brother, and he married her two days after her 14th<\/sup> birthday, Hatami said.<\/p>\n

The case was about a grown man who had molested young kids and stolen their innocence, Hatami told the jury.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the end of this trial, the evidence will show the defendant is nothing more than a serial child predator,\u201d Hatami said.<\/p>\n

Defense attorney Michael Morse said Valenti would be taking the stand during the trial to \u201ccategorically deny\u201d all of the allegations, which stemmed from “jealousy.”<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s gonna tell you that none of this happened,\u201d Morse said.<\/p>\n

Valenti is facing 21 charges, the majority of which are misdemeanor child molesting. The charges also include\u00a0five felony counts of\u00a0continuous sexual abuse of a child, as well as\u00a0four felony counts of procuring false or forged instruments, for allegedly obtaining social security numbers under the names Renoir Valenti and Raynord Haylock.<\/p>\n

Valenti\u2019s trial is expected to last at least three weeks, and up to 75 witnesses could be called to testify, Hatami said.<\/p>\n

Previous related stories:<\/p>\n

AV soccer coach to stand trial on child molestation charges<\/a><\/p>\n

Boy molested more than 10,000 times, according to testimony<\/a><\/p>\n

Preliminary hearing resumes in soccer coach child-molest case<\/a><\/p>\n

Allegations aired in soccer coach child-molest case<\/a><\/p>\n

AV soccer coach now charged with molesting 13 boys<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0More alleged victims identified in soccer coach child molestation case<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Local youth soccer coach charged with child sexual assaults, more victims sought<\/a><\/p>\n

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LANCASTER \u2013 Opening statements were made Tuesday in the trial of Renoir Valenti, the longtime Antelope Valley youth soccer coach charged with molesting or sexually abusing more than a dozen underage boys. Valenti,\u00a0an American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) coach and referee for several years,\u00a0was arrested Aug. 6, 2012 at his Quartz Hill home. The arrest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}