VIRGINIA BEACH -- A former high school volunteer baseball coach in Va. Beach pleaded guilty and was sentenced Tuesday for child sex crimes.
Dennis Ray Collins, 53, sexually abused one of the players on the Bayside team between January 1, 1986 and December 31, 1988.
Colllins was living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina when he was charged and was brought to Va. Beach to face charges of sexual penetration with an object and indecent liberties-custodial.
Collins sentence was 20 years with 10 suspended conditioned upon good behavior, indefinite supervised probation, registration as a sex offender, no with contact with the victim, and payment of all court costs.
Collins also was a youth minister at a Va. Beach church during that time.
