Hannah Elizabeth Marth accused of intercourse with student-athlete

Hannah Elizabeth Marth (ESU Warriors)

A 26-year-old trainer and athletic coach in Pennsylvania has been arrested and charged with a pair of felonies for allegedly having a yearlong inappropriate sexual relationship with a teenage scholar who was a member of the college’s monitor and area program.

Hannah Elizabeth Marth was taken into custody and charged with one depend every of institutional sexual assault and sexual assault by a sports activities official, each of that are third-degree felonies, prosecutors introduced.

In keeping with a press launch from the Workplace of the Northampton District Lawyer, Marth in Might 2021 was a javelin coach for the Northampton Space Excessive College Observe and Discipline group. The alleged sufferer, a 17-year-old male, was a scholar and “lively participant” on the highschool’s monitor and area group.

“A trusted relationship between a scholar athlete, an athlete’s guardian, and a coach is usually a weak one,” District Lawyer Terence Houck mentioned in an announcement concerning the prices. “An abuse of that relationship exhibits a coach’s blatant disregard for the well-being of these he or she coached, and above all – the regulation. This defendant defied that belief when she dedicated this alleged crime towards the sufferer.”

An investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police decided that Marth and the scholar — whose title isn’t being launched by authorities — “had been concerned in a sexual relationship,” the DA’s workplace mentioned.

The connection is alleged to have begun on Might 22, 2021 when Marth despatched the sufferer a textual content message at roughly 2:00 a.m. inviting him to her residence on Hunsicker Drive in Lehigh Township, about 75 miles northwest of Philadelphia. After he arrived at her residence, prosecutors say that Marth “initiated  sexual contact with the sufferer.”