Authorities in Tennessee do not know exactly which soccer teams or clubs alleged child rapist Camilo Hurtado Campos, but are urging parents to contact them if they believe their child may have had contact with the disgraced coach.
“I don’t know and quite honestly, we’re trying not to be disarming to parents if they don’t hear a club named that their kids were affiliated with,” Franklin Police Public Information Officer Lt. Charles Warner told The Tennessee Star when asked whether authorities had identified which team or teams Campos coached. “We’re urging parents whose kids had contact with Campos, regardless of any program or location to contact us.”
Williamson County Sheriff’s Office Administration Lt. Becky Coyle told The Star that the sheriff’s office did not know which team or teams Campos coached, either.
Sunday, the Franklin Police Department (FPD) announced on Facebook that Campos had been arrested after leaving his phone in a restaurant. In an attempt to find the phone’s owner, staff members searched Campos’ phone, only to discover graphic photos and videos of young boys.
“A heartbreaking investigation is underway as Franklin Police work to identify several young children who were drugged and raped by a Franklin man,” FPD said. “Camilo Hurtado Campos, a popular soccer coach, is being held for Rape of a Child and Sexual Exploitation of a Minor. Detectives are expected to file several additional charges.”
“During an immediate and tireless investigation, Detectives found hundreds of disturbing videos and pictures on that phone,” FPD said. “In many of them, Campos recorded himself raping unconscious boys between approximately 9 and 17 years old.”
The law enforcement entity then provided background information on Campos:
The 63-year-old soccer coach has lived in Franklin for the last 20 years, with that time split between two neighborhoods: Hill Estates and, most recently, on Glass Lane in the downtown Franklin area. During off-hours, Campos frequented nearby school playgrounds in both neighborhoods where he approached kids and recruited them as players on his team. After gaining their trust, Campos invited many of the kids to his home where he drugged and then raped them.
FPD said it has imagery depicting at least 10 rapes, and two victims have been identified so far.
“Detectives say that the children in these videos were in such an unconscious state, that they might not even realize that they are victims.”
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter.
Image “Camilo Hurtado Campos” by Franklin Police Department.
