Man Given 18 Years For Sexual Abuse Of Three Children

Schwartz came to the attention of authorities during the early 1990s after several male basketball players at Thomas S. Wootton High School reported being molested, according to Montgomery County police detective Jordan Satinsky, who investigated the current cases. For reasons that were unclear, police did not charge him at the time. Satinsky said Schwartz, who was a volunteer coach, sometimes provided alcohol to minors before molesting them.

Schwartz said he has been receiving sex offender therapy and is now able to control his impulses. Schwartz has been disbarred in the District and will soon lose his license to practice in Virginia, his lawyer said.

"I am taking full responsibility for my abusive behavior," Schwartz said. "I am taking positive steps to make sure nothing like this happens ever again, and I recognize I have a serious sexual disorder."

But prosecutors and his children said he has made such promises in the past to get out of trouble.

When family members discovered that he had been abusing a female relative, he promised to get help, they said. The same thing occurred after he was confronted with the allegations at Wootton High.

Despite the trail of allegations, he was allowed to host foreign exchange students.

Satinsky said Schwartz hosted about 30 students at his home in recent years. Most were ages 13 to 16. The student who reported the abuse to police said Schwartz encouraged him to sleep in Schwartz's bed and to sleep in his underwear.

"American boys sleep in their underwear, not T-shirts and shorts," Schwartz told the teenager, according to police.