Former Ohio high school cheerleading coach, substitute teacher sentenced on 4 sex offenses
After several months of hard work by criminal investigators and two special prosecutors, Gallia County resident Michal Paige Huck, formerly a cheerleading coach and substitute teacher at River Valley High School in Gallia County, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for her sexual conduct with multiple teenage boys.
One of the victims with whom Ms. Huck had sex was 13 years old, one was 15, and the other two were 17. They were former students who were involved with a wrestling team that was coached by Ms. Huck’s former husband Matthew Huck, who is awaiting trial on a related felony case.
Huck previously pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of sexual battery.
“We appreciate Judge Margaret Evans accepting our joint recommendation to send Ms. Huck to prison for 10 years,” Special Prosecutor Mark R. Weaver said after the sentencing. “The law would permit a sentence of probation, but the judge saw the wisdom of a long time in prison for such serious crimes.”
“We’re proud of the courageous victims of Ms. Huck, who worked with us to expose the troubling and graphic details of these sex crimes,” Special Prosecutor David Kelley said. “The community is safer with this woman behind bars.”
“We want to thank Gallia County Sheriff Matt Champlin’s office – as well as Attorney General Dave Yost’s Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation – for their expertise and assistance in the investigation,” Weaver concluded. “We’re not done with the Huck investigation yet, but these professionals helped achieve the outcome we saw today.”
Kelley spent nearly three decades as the Adams County Prosecuting Attorney and as an Assistant Prosecutor in other Ohio counties. Weaver was the Deputy Attorney General of Ohio and has served as a special prosecutor in a dozen Ohio counties, including numerous child sex cases and two death penalty prosecutions. He is currently a part-time Assistant Prosecutor in Marion County.
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