School Sent Parents Waiver They Could Sign To Let Sex Offender Coach Their Kids

ByMF Jones

Parents received a waiver from a school in Texas allowing their children to be coached by a registered sex offender.

Thomas Whiteman, 46, a former baseball player with the Houston Astros, is on the sex offender registry until 2030 for online solicitation of a minor in 2010.

The minor in question was a 14-year-old girl.

If I tell you what the waiver says you probably won’t believe me, so here’s a screenshot before I transcribe it below:

It reads: “Coach Tommy can speak first-hand about the dark shadows of sports, especially professionally. He, himself a talented athlete, spent many years praising himself and feeding his flesh. The Lord so graciously refused to let the world have him and rescued him from his sin in a tremendously dramatic, yet necessary way. Tommy now spends his time pouring into young men around him, helping them navigate this tricky culture with Christ. His heart is to not only share his vast knowledge of baseball skills, but more importantly, the freedom he found in his Redeemer. Before you commit to Coach Tommy’s leadership, check out his testimony here.”

Lol – they really couldn’t come up with better language than “pouring into young men around him”? You couldn’t come up with better satire if you tried. “Feeding his flesh”? Jesus!

As you might expect, parents did not want Coach Tommy “pouring into” their children, and so The Texas Home Educators Sports Association (THESA) – a Christian educational body providing sport opportunities for homeschooled young people – is now under fire.

As such, Whiteman, who has previously also coached high school softball teams in another county, is now no longer listed as a coach on THESA’s website.

On their website, they had a testimony about him under subheading ‘the darkest shadows,’ where he admits engaging in ‘inappropriate conversations that led to adultery,’

The bizarre testimony states: “Eventually I found myself in chat rooms late into the night while my wife and innocent infant daughter slept.  I was engaging in inappropriate conversations that led to adultery.  One of these online conversations ended up being with a minor…but it was never a minor…it was a police officer. The sting went down exactly like you would imagine on T.V.  It was no question the worst day AND the best day of my life.” 

You see, he was only trying to sleep with a minor, but in the end, he was the victim of a TV sting!

Crazy to think that he had been coaching kids for all this time before someone kicked up a fuss. I wonder if any parents actually signed the waiver? Call child services if so.

For the Premier League coached who was ‘blocked’ from working with players for being too hot, click HERE.

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