On a winter day in 2021,17-year-old Aryalle Stoner called police to make a shocking allegation: her father, longtime high school football coach and educator Ronnie Stoner, had been sexually abusing her from the age of 11, she said.

But the ensuing police and CPS investigation was flawed from the start, and Aryalle faced family pressure to take back her claims. Phone calls obtained by KyCIR show Ronnie’s girlfriend, another JCPS employee, tried and succeeded in getting police to drop the case.

An expert in child sex abuse investigations who reviewed the files said she saw many concerns with how the detective and social workers handled the case.

Meanwhile, Ronnie continued working with vulnerable youth and coaching football. Interviews and public documents reveal a surprising loophole tha

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