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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.

Credit: Credit: Cobb County Sheriff’s Office

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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.

ExploreThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in February how Gorman continued his career as a celebrated youth wrestling coach even after two Cobb mothers reported him to local authorities and Pope High School, where he was a volunteer with the wrestling program.

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Meris Lutz is a contributing writer covering climate, the environment and the economy. She is particularly interested in stories that explore the intersections between climate change and labor, markets, health, biodiversity, government transparency and public access to natural resources.

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