Former softball coach sentenced to life in prison
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WOODLAND — A former youth softball coach convicted of sexually assaulting two of his teenage clients received his fate Wednesday: 37 years, four months to life in state prison.
A Yolo County jury convicted Jack “Buck” Maldonado Thomas of forcible sexual assault of a minor, sexual battery on a minor and first-degree burglary in October. His offenses occurred in West Sacramento during the summer of 2018 as he trained the 15- and 16-year-old girls whose parents paid thousands of dollars for private coaching lessons.
In addition to his sentence, Thomas, 43, got an earful from the parents of his two young victims, as well as the Yolo Superior Court judge who presided over his trial where three other women testified that Thomas once preyed upon them, too.