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Trial Set for Suspended Howard Soccer Coach
posted 12:51 pm Wed May 28, 2008 - LOUISA, Va.
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Suspended Howard University soccer coach Joseph Okoh (OH'-koh) pleaded not guilty to a charge of using the Internet to solicit sex with a teenage girl.
Okoh entered his plea Wednesday in Louisa Circuit Court. Commonwealth's Attorney Tom Garrett said Okoh was returned to Central Virginia Regional Jail in Orange without bond.
Police arrested Okoh on January 25 at a Louisa County hotel, where police said he showed up to meet a 13-year-old girl he had talked with online for several hours.
His conversations were actually with a police investigator who was posing as a girl.
Okoh is scheduled for trial on November 12. A conviction on the charge calls for a mandatory minimum prison term of five years.
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