A former professional volleyball player who later worked as a coach and security monitor at a Doral charter school was sentenced Friday to seven years in state prison, followed by 10 years of probation, after jurors convicted him of encouraging students to have sex inside a classroom .

Yuniesky Ramírez Martínez, a Cuban-born athlete who previously played professional volleyball in Puerto Rico, was arrested in 2023 after two students accused him of directing them to a private media classroom so they could have sex without being caught on security cameras. Prosecutors said surveillance video showed the coach secretly watching and recording them through a two-way mirror.

During the trial in July, one of the teenage victims testified, "He told us that we could go somewhere more private so

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