{"id":80364,"date":"2025-12-03T21:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80364\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:37:10","slug":"long-beach-high-school-coach-sentenced-for-sexually-abusing-student-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80364\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach High School Coach Sentenced For Sexually Abusing Student: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A former Long Beach high school baseball coach accused of sexually assaulting a student has been sentenced to prison, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Vigil, 35, was given a <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/crime\/cabrillo-coach-who-sexually-assaulted-student-gets-2-years-8-months-in-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two-year and eight-month prison sentence<\/a> and must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life after accepting a plea agreement with the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office, Long Beach Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would give you more than two years,\u201d the victim\u2019s mother told Vigil in court, the news outlet reported. \u201cTwo years is nothing and [my daughter] is scarred for life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vigil was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/suspect-arrested-for-sexual-assault-of-a-minor-additional-victims-sought\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arrested at his Long Beach home<\/a> on July 24 after a Cabrillo High School staff member told police earlier in the month that a female student \u201chad been sexually assaulted off-campus by a substitute staff member, who was also working as a sports coach,\u201d Long Beach police said.<\/p>\n<p>Vigil, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/da.lacounty.gov\/media\/news\/high-school-baseball-coach-charged-sex-crimes-against-female-student\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">employed as a baseball coach with Cabrillo High School<\/a>, is accused of sexually assaulting the girl between May and July at multiple locations, including his apartment, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach Unified School District did not immediately respond to Patch\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Four days after Vigil\u2019s arrest, prosecutors filed seven charges against him, all of which he pleaded not guilty to during his arraignment, the district attorney\u2019s office said. Had he been convicted on all counts, he faced up to eight years in prison, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Per his plea agreement, Vigil pleaded no contest to two of the charges \u2014 meeting a minor for lewd purposes and sexual penetration of a person under 18 \u2014 and the remaining five were dismissed, Long Beach Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/crime\/cabrillo-coach-who-sexually-assaulted-student-gets-2-years-8-months-in-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">full report at Long Beach Post.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A former Long Beach high school baseball coach accused of sexually assaulting a student&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-80364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}