COOPER CITY, Fla. – The parents of a child they claim was sexually assaulted by a Cooper City little league coach are speaking about their son's pain and the fear that his former coach will be released from jail.
The boy's family told Local 10 News crime specialist John Turchin that they want to make sure that doesn't happen. They hope that by speaking publicly, it will encourage other parents to talk to their children who have come into contact with David Solomon, 47, over the years, to see if they were sexually abused.
Solomon, who was a baseball coach at the Cooper City Optimist League, was arrested at his home Thursday and is being held without bond at the Broward County jail on two counts of sexual abuse on a minor.
"Since Thursday, our world has been turned upside down," the boy's father, who wished to remain anonymous, said.
The mother and father are lost in their grief, agonizing over what happened to their son.
'To find out what really happened to him -- It broke my heart," the boy's mother said.
The couple said they are living every parent's nightmare after learning that their son's coach, someone who had gained their trust and loyalty, allegedly preyed upon their son.
"His innocence was taken from him. He's just an 11-year-old boy," the mother said.
According to detectives, the sexual assault began in early April during a team sleepover at the coach's home in Cooper City.
But the boy told detectives that most of the sex acts happened in the coach's car. He said Solomon claimed that if he told anyone, it would violate the "bro code."
"I guess looking back on it now, there were signs that were there -- just nobody saw them," the father said.
The father said those signs included text messages.
"You can see that he was always the one offering to pick him up and take him home by himself," he said.
What frightens the mother and father is that Solomon was cleared of similar allegations in 2000 when he was arrested and charged with molesting two boys who played on the baseball team he coached in Hialeah Gardens.
"He got away with it once -- what's to say he can't do it again?" the mother said.
The charges were later dropped when one of the boys recanted his claim.
"Justice prevailed I guess," Solomon told Local 10 News in 2000. "Kids know what to say, when to say it to get them out of whatever they need to get out of, and you just have to look out for No. 1."
While Solomon is jailed and facing two counts of sexual assault, the victim's mother said she hopes Solomon will forever remain within the walls that now confine him.
"A coach is supposed to be someone to guide you, that you look up to, that you admire --and here he is -- he's betraying all of our trust," she said.
Local 10 News learned that a second victim has come forward and additional charges are expected. But like this mother and father, detectives are concerned there are more victims.
Anyone who believes their child was a victim of Solomon is asked to call the Broward Sheriff's Office.
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