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Videos of the rapes of 10 unconscious boys were found on a Tennessee football coach’s cellphone after he left it at a restaurant, police said Sunday.
Camilo Hurtado Campos, 56, was booked on charges of child rape and sexual exploitation of a minor, Franklin police said in a statement.
He was still being held on Sunday on $525,000 bond, police lieutenant Charles Warner said. It is not clear if Campos has an attorney and the local public defender did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Police described Campos as a popular football coach and a 20-year resident of Franklin, a city of about 87,000 20 miles south of Nashville. He used the work to lure boys to his home, where he allegedly assaulted them, police said.
“After office hours, Campos visited nearby schoolyards in both neighborhoods (where he had lived) where he approached and recruited children as players on his team,” police said. “After gaining their trust, Campos invited many of the children to his home, where he drugged and then raped them.”
The allegations came to light after employees at a restaurant found a cell phone that someone had left behind and searched it in an attempt to contact the owner, police said.
They discovered “unscrupulous videos,” police said, and contacted police, who traced it back to the suspect.
Detectives searching videos and photos on the phone saw 10 victims, two of whom have been identified with the help of local schools, police said.
However, there are hundreds of videos and photos on the device and it is feared there may be more victims, police said. So far, the victims are described as being between the ages of 9 and 17, the department said.
“Detectives say the children in these videos were in such an unconscious state that they may not even realize they are victims,” police said.
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Detectives hope those who are in the same circles as the suspect can help identify the remaining eight victims or any additional children he allegedly coaxed into his home, police said.
The drug police alleged to have been used in the crimes are not named.
The exact dates of the discovery of the phone and the arrest of the suspect were not available.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
