‘This morning around 10 a.m. we were notified by Pittsburg County investigators that they had a warrant for someone they thought was living here in Moore,” Sgt. Jeremy Lewis of the Moore Police Department. “On three counts of rape and one count of forcible sodomy. It turned out he was a former high school student here in Moore.”
According to the reports, Freeman, 28, has been accused by an 18-year-old student at McAlester High of rape when he was coach and teacher in 2008. He has been charged with all four counts in Pittsburg County.
”We had a detective go to his residence here and locate him there and place him under arrest for the warrant,” Lewis said. “He was arrested in his home and taken to the Cleveland County jail.”
According to the police, the accuser said each of the encounters took place inside a vehicle owned by McAlester Public Schools.
”Looking at the affidavit, there was three to four separate actual sexual incidents and some other incidents of a sexual nature,” Lewis said.
Freeman left McAlester and moved back to Moore where he was hired as an assistant football coach at Southmoore. That position lasted one season before he took the head coaching job at Hinton High.
Freeman resigned from Hinton in February. There have been no other complaints lodged against Freeman from his other coaching and teaching duties.
”Anytime there’s a teacher-coach arrested, there’s going to be some concern that there could be other victims, being that he was teaching and coaching at another school,” Lewis said. “Of course, that could be a concern.”
