Ex-Coach Gets Jail in Stalking
Woman given 18 months for not staying away
By Marie McCain
Originally published in The Cincinnati Enquirer, July 26, 2001
Only prison will help control a volunteer boys soccer coach convicted of stalking a 15-year-old, a Hamilton County judge said Wednesday in sentencing the Covedale woman to 18 months.
Lisa C. Dunaway, convicted of stalking a player on the St. Antoninus School team in Covedale, sobbed as she told the judge she wanted nothing to do with the family of the teen.
Ms. Dunaway, a 32-year-old mother of three, said she hoped to get on with her life and take care of her children.
She called the incidents unintentional.
"You are not a viable candidate for community control and the best thing I can do is keep you from our community for a period of time," Common Pleas Judge Mark R. Schweikert told her.
A court-ordered psychiatric evaluation determined she has "significant and complicated personality disorders that will require long amounts of counseling," according to court records.
Ms. Dunaway was convicted earlier this year of stalking the teen player and sending him gifts and sexually explicit letters and e-mails.
She was sentenced to 10 days in jail and five years probation, and ordered to stay away from the teen, his family and other children except her own.
About a week after her release from jail, relatives of the teen said, they saw her outside a store, at a restaurant and at Paramount's Kings Island. They testified that they felt intimidated.
Ms. Dunaway was dismissed from her coaching position, and the archdiocese said it may review recruitment policies for volunteers.
On Wednesday, the judge said the probation violations were far from coincidence.
Ms. Dunaway had testified she consulted her probation officer before going to the park.
"You calculated it and planned it and you involved your probation officer in it," the judge said. "I think you fully knew your victim's family would be out there."
