Ex-South Sioux City coach pleads not guilty to sex assault
May 25, 2021
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DAKOTA CITY, Neb. (AP) — A former northeastern Nebraska coach has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl who was a student at his school.
Nathan Rogers, 25, filed a written plea on Monday to charges of first-degree sexual assault and child abuse, the Sioux City Journal reported. Rogers had been scheduled to appear in person Tuesday morning in Dakota County District Court to enter his plea.
Rogers was an assistant football and basketball coach at South Sioux City High School when he was first arrested in March on charges accusing him of raping the girl at his home in December. The girl told investigators she had gone to Rogers’ home at his suggestion to pick up a vaping pen. Once inside, she said, he pinned her to a couch and forcibly sexually assaulted her.