37 yr old child predator caught in Magnolia, Texas.
A youth softball coach (so he can be around underage girls).
Vet your children’s coaches & teachers yourselves, parents.
The schools & youth sports organizations are not doing a proper job of it, obviously …
TRUST BROKEN.
A 37-year-old youth softball coach in Magnolia, Texas just got arrested. Nathan Scott Velez allegedly spent weeks chatting online with who he thought was a 15-year-old girl. He asked for nudes, talked sex acts, and tried to set up a meet. It was a detective the whole time.
He coaches little girls in Montgomery County. He works as a lineman for a tech company. Now he faces a third-degree felony, two to ten years, and up to ten grand in fines.
Here is the honest cut: We hand our kids over to coaches, teachers, and mentors every season and pray they are safe. Then we see cases like this and realize too many predators hide right in plain sight in trusted roles.
Parents sign them up for softball to build confidence and stay active, not to worry about the man running practice. Law enforcement did their job with this sting. Good. But one arrest does not fix the bigger pattern.
We need real vetting, real consequences, and communities that stop looking the other way when something feels off.
What does it say about our priorities when kids are not shielded first?
Video Credit: Office of Constable Alan Rosen FB