A former Cape Coral coach’s attorney is speaking on his behalf after , resulting in his resignation.<\/p>\n
Tyler Murphy, a former Cape Coral High School coach and gym teacher, has not responded to WINK Investigates’ numerous calls, texts, and Facebook messages requesting an interview.<\/p>\n
Murphy’s attorney, Victor Arias, spoke with WINK News off-camera, defending his client against the allegations.<\/p>\n
He said Murphy has a valid reason for not responding to WINK Investigates calls and texts.<\/p>\n
“Mr. Murphy is most concerned about the students and athletes’ mental and physical well-being,” Arias said in a statement over email. “He does not want to make any statements that will negatively impact them.”<\/p>\n
Arias claims school administrators ambushed Murphy with an ultimatum: resign or be fired.<\/p>\n
He called it “an ambush and bullying tactic” and says Murphy was not given a chance to defend himself.<\/p>\n
Lee County School District’s Director of Strategic Communication Rob Spicker tells WINK Investigates they have a different perspective.<\/p>\n
“Mr. Murphy was a probationary employee as defined by law,” Spicker said in a statement. “Probationary contract employees may be dismissed without cause or may resign without breach of contract.”<\/p>\n
In an exclusive interview, the parent also told WINK Investigates she believes her son was benched in retaliation after her relationship with Murphy ended.<\/p>\n
Spicker said the district could not verify this claim.<\/p>\n
Arias said that accusation is “false.”<\/p>\n
Spicker says the school district reviewed text messages from the parent, who claims they prove she had sex with Murphy on the high school’s campus.<\/p>\n
According to Spicker, Murphy confirmed to the district the texts were authentic.<\/p>\n
Arias argues the texts were “purely fantasy talk” and denied any sexual activity occurred on campus.<\/p>\n
WINK Investigates is committed to providing you updates on this story as we learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Cape Coral coach’s attorney is speaking on his behalf after , resulting in his resignation. Tyler…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}