Former Osceola youth softball coach Michael Feltz will serve 30 years in prison for child molestation, after pleading guilty to statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl on one of his teams last month.
State business records list 45-year-old Feltz as the president, director and treasurer of OC Crush Fastpitch Corp., a youth travel softball league based in Osceola.
He was sentenced to 40 years in prison Friday by St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Hurley. But under a plea deal with prosecutors, 10 years of that sentence will be suspended.
Feltz will also serve 5 years probation once he is released, must register as a sex offender and pay the victim’s family $1,900 in restitution.
Police began investigating Feltz earlier this year after a parent discovered that he was in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl on one of the league’s teams.
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