COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former Worthington Christian High School girls' basketball coach accused of having sex with two students on his team was indicted on 10 counts of sexual battery.
The indictment for 35-year-old Jason Dawson was filed on April 3. He was extradited to Columbus after he was arrested in Charlotte, North Carolina last month.
Franklin County Municipal Court records say a detective with the Columbus Division of Police interviewed a woman in December 2023 who said she was in a relationship with Dawson from her sophomore year in 2019 through September 2023.
Records document that the woman said the relationship became sexual in January 2021 when she was 16 years old and she had sex with Dawson about 100 times.
The woman told the detective that Dawson, who was also a teacher at the high school, recorded them having sex multiple times and that he would send the videos to her. The Columbus Digital Forensics Unit was able to extract three of those videos from the woman's phone that showed the two of them having sex when she was 17 years old, court documents say.
Dawson is also accused of associating himself with a different girl who was also on the basketball team. Court documents say that the girl and Dawson had sex in November 2020 when she was 16 years old. No other information was provided.
Dr. Mike Hayes, the head of school at Worthington Christian, released a statement last month saying the school heard of the allegations and called the allegations "despicable, criminal, and against everything we stand for and teach."
Dawson did not appear for a scheduled hearing in Delaware County Municipal Court on Wednesday. A new court date has not been set.