Former Woodlands coach, charged with sexual assault, admits to sex with teen

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The 31-year-old former Woodlands High teacher and coach arrested Wednesday on sexual assault of a child charges previously admitted to investigators he engaged in varied sexual acts with a 16-year-old student at his apartment in The Woodlands.

Despite his involvement with the girl, who is an 11th grade student at the school, “there was this good piece of me that saw that it was wrong,” Richard Bernard Chiamulera told a Conroe ISD Police Department investigator on Feb. 13, according to court records.

The investigator learned Chiamulera, an English teacher and the girl’s junior varsity basketball coach at the high school, initially befriended the girl when she was in ninth grade. She referred to Chiamulera as “Coach C,” documents show.

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Allegations against Chiamulera came to the attention of Conroe ISD police after a counselor at The Woodlands High was told Feb. 5 by students at the school that their friend engaged in “numerous” sexual acts with Chiamulera at his home.

Chiamulera was suspended from teaching Feb. 6. As of Thursday afternoon, he is being held at the Montgomery County Jail on a $300,000 bond, jail records show.

Chiamulera has an extensive career in coaching, having coached track and field in The Woodlands and basketball and softball in Houston. He has also coached sports in Tennessee and Michigan, according to his bio available on the school website Wednesday afternoon.

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