RIALTO: Ex-coach charged with molesting girls
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Floyd Eddings Jr.
A former coach at Eisenhower High School in Rialto was charged Thursday, March 7, with molesting two of his female basketball players.
Floyd Eddings Jr., 55, of Rialto, was arrested by Rialto police at his home, nine years after the allegations were first raised that he had sexually assaulted players between 1999 and 2004 — the same time period that another Eisenhower coach was convicted of having an affair with a female student athlete.
Police said they are concerned there may be more victims in the Eddings case, and are urging anyone with information to contact Detective Carla McCullough at 909-820-2521.
Eddings was a contract employee and walk-on coach with the Rialto Unified School District from 1995 to 2004, district spokeswoman Syeda Jafri said. In addition to girls basketball, he coached freshman football and boys and girls track and field. He resigned from the district in 2004. Officials could not disclose if it was related to the molestation allegations.
“At this time, we continue to work with the Rialto Police Department and cooperate in the investigation,” Jafri said.
Since 2007, Eddings has worked as a security attendant during school hours for the Corona-Norco Unified School District. He was placed on unpaid administrative leave Thursday, district spokesman Thomas Pike said.
Corona officials were notifying parents of Eddings’ arrest, Pike said.
Eddings is accused of performing sex acts on two girls who were 14 or 15 years old and played for the Eisenhower girls basketball team while he was coach, Rialto police Capt. Randy De Anda said.
When the girls came forward in 2004, police did not have enough information at the time to ask prosecutors to file charges, De Anda said. In recent months, however, police received new allegations, and presented the case to the district attorney’s office this year, De Anda said.
Prosecutors charged Eddings with sexual penetration by a foreign object with the first girl in August 2004, according to a criminal complaint. He also is charged with two counts of lewd acts with a child and penetration by a foreign object of a second girl from August 1999 through May 2001.
He is in custody at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, awaiting arraignment.
Eddings was a wide receiver for the New York Giants in 1982 and 1983.
In 2005, former Eisenhower football and softball coach Glenn Tompkins was sentenced to six months in jail and three years’ probation after pleading no contest to statutory rape. A softball player said she and Tompkins had a sexual relationship that began in 2002, when she was 16 and he was 26.
Eddings’ arrest adds to a period of turmoil for Eisenhower High School.
Current Eisenhower varsity boys basketball coach Steve Johnson is on medical leave after being shot during an attempted robbery at a San Bernardino park restroom. San Bernardino police sought charges against Johnson of criminal activity and obstructing detectives, but the district attorney’s office announced last week that it had declined to prosecute him.
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