Sometimes he knelt before them and shined a flashlight on their genitals.īoys testified that Snider also massaged their tired muscles as they lay naked with only hand towels covering their private parts. During Snider’s trial, more than two dozen boys described how Snider asked them to stand in their boxers or naked in front of him while he checked their penises, scrotums and buttocks, either touching them himself or asking the boys to touch themselves.
Torrance police spent the next two months developing a case, interviewing wrestlers and learning about the coach’s inspections in a dimly lighted storage room adjacent to the locker room.
The molestations occurred primarily from 2013 to 2015 after Snider was chosen to direct the Torrance High wrestling program.
