MIKE SMITH

Two additional boys told jurors Wednesday that Jami James sexually assaulted them when he was their youth hockey coach, describing the same acts that another boy testified about this week.

One boy said Wednesday that James sexually assaulted him on three occasions — once at James’ house in Columbia Falls, once in a nearby house James used for hockey camp gatherings and once on a boat during a camping trip at Hungry Horse Reservoir.

The other boy who testified Wednesday said he saw a newspaper story about James’ arrest for the allegations in February 2023 and told his parents a day or two later that James did the same thing to him.

Mothers of two of the alleged victims in the case also testified Wednesday, one saying she became close friends with James but it never became sex

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