MCMINNVILLE, Ore. — The former Westview High School head football coach who resigned in June after allegedly slapping and shaking players while they were sleeping at an overnight summer camp made an appearance in a Yamhill County Courtroom on Wednesday afternoon.
Jamal Anthony Jones, 32, is facing 12 counts of misdemeanor harassment for the incident that took place at Linfield University.
The appearance was a condition of Jones being booked and released in Yamhill County in early July.
The Westview High School football team was in the last day of a multi-day camp when Jones allegedly woke some players around 1 a.m. by slapping and shaking them.
One of those players, rising senior SeKoa Kurkowski Afoa, told KGW, "He was putting his hands on people. He open-palm slapped people.” He said in total, the players estimate about 30 of them were slapped or shaken awake.
Jones later resigned, a day after the Beaverton School District said he had been put on administrative leave, pending an investigation. On July 10, Jones turned himself in to McMinnville Police, nearly three weeks later.
Jones is also a full-time police officer with the Hillsboro Police Department, and he has been placed on leave by the HPD.
His next court appearance is scheduled for August 29. He is expected to enter a plea at that time.
Alma McCarty contributed to the reporting in this story.