Former Maui High School football coach gets jail time for sexting
WAILUKU >> A former Maui High School football coach has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for sending sexually explicit pictures to a teenage girl.
The Maui News reports that 40-year-old David Bui of Wailuku was sentenced Thursday after pleading no contest to five counts of indecent electronic display to a child.
The victim told prosecutors she knows what it is like to grow up without a father and asked that Bui not be sentenced to jail, but Wailuku District Judge Blain Kobayashi said no jail time would undermine the offense.
Bui is accused of sending a number of inappropriate messages to the victim in 2014 when she was then a 14-year-old sophomore at a different school. She came forward to school administrators and police in February 2015.
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She’s a kind, forgiving person. A bit too much, perhaps.
She may need a little more counseling. But good gesture!
What? That it is right to send everybody to prison!
np, I just don’t want her to be a victim again. I think I’d rather see him do thru class to fix his behavior rather than jail.
Growing up without a father may be part of the problem. Perhaps the culprit sensed a weakness, a search for a father figure, and took advantage of it. 30 days is not enough.
Bui is a sick, evil individual. If I were the father of the 14 year old I would not accept just 30 days. Clearly this judge has no experience in raising a daughter – shame on him.
What are you talking about? The judge didn’t accept 30 days, that was the judge’s determination.
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Iʻm impressed. Not.
Well geez, you folks are all over the landscape. It is wrong for an adult to take advantage or attempt to take advantage of a child. Okay? Was that too difficult?
Sorry, I guess I responded emotionally. In three decades in the public schools, very rarely have I ever had to deal with something like this. Where the coach is an “at will” employee, the school side response is really easy. If evidence exists, terminate. With a classified or certificated employee, the standard is a little higher. Substantive and procedural due-process must be documented. When that has been appropriately done, the unions have never opposed termination. The courts are another matter and do not impact internal investigations. For example, some suspects have been acquitted but have still been terminated.
I can understand that we do not want to put the offender’s child or children in an awkward situation but the victim’s comment regarding the knowing what it is like to grow up without a father would possibly mean that offender has a child or children of his own. I do empathize a lot for the girl for what she went through. Obviously it bothered her enough to report it to officials. I also feel for the children of the offender as what they will be put through will also be painful. This selfish act by the offender has brought tragedy not only to the victim but to his own family. And let’s not make light the heinous act by seeing it as just a fleeting act that does not warrant jail time because it does. The act could have been just the beginning of something even more serious. Now, I can understand how others may see the sentence as being too harsh but we need to make an example of this inappropriate behavior. As others have mentioned, if I were the father of that girl, 30 days would not even be close enough for his actions.
Maui has lots of devils disguised as the angel of light.