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Cobb coach convicted of child sex abuse facing extradition to GA

Ron Gorman, 51, a youth wrestling coach from Marietta, pleaded guilty in 2017 to sexually abusing two children.
Ron Gorman, 51, a youth wrestling coach from Marietta, pleaded guilty in 2017 to sexually abusing two children.
By Meris Lutz
June 21, 2018

A former Life University wrestling coach who pleaded guilty to child sex abuse in Pennsylvania now faces extradition to Georgia on similar charges.

Ron Gorman was indicted by a Cobb grand jury Thursday on two counts of aggravated child molestation.

The charges stem from his abuse of a boy from Pennsylvania at his home in Cobb.

Gorman has already been convicted and sentenced to 40 years in Pennsylvania, where prosecutors identified 11 victims and a pattern of abuse going back decades.

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