Gabriel Lopez May Have Had The Mother's Approval

**FlamingFox** · October 23rd, 2009, 10:23 AM

A 40-year-old soccer coach accused of having an ongoing sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl was arrested Wednesday, Henderson police said.

Gabriel G. Lopez, a Las Vegas man, was booked into Henderson jail on 11 counts of statutory sexual seduction. According to police, he and the girl have had a sexual relationship since May.

The pair were found together Tuesday night in Lopez’s truck while it was parked in a dark spot of the Arroyo Grande Sports Complex parking lot, at Arroyo Grande Boulevard and American Pacific Drive, according to Lopez’s arrest report. An officer asked Lopez and the girl, who was not identified by police, what they were doing and both replied they were just talking. The girl told the officer she was 17 years old before admitting she was 15.

Lopez denied having a sexual relationship with the girl, police said.

The girl said they met through a private soccer club, where he was her coach.

The girl’s mother was also arrested after Lopez and the girl, in separate interviews with police, said the mother had approved of the relationship by saying, “Love only comes around once.”

The girl said the mother also told her, “You can’t deny love,” and, “You never know who it will be.” The mother suggested Lopez buy a phone for the girl so that the girl’s father wouldn’t find out, the girl told police, according to Lopez’s arrest report.

The mother denied approving of the relationship and instructed the daughter to end it, according to her arrest report. She is facing a felony charge of child abuse, neglect or endangerment.

Lopez is listed as a licensed soccer coach for Ballistic Soccer Organization on the club’s Web site. He was head coach of the club’s ‘94 team, which included 13 players, for the 2009-2010 season. Lopez also offered private training to players on the site.

A representative from the organization could not be reached for comment Thursday. Henderson Department of Parks and Recreation officials said Ballistic Soccer Organization does not use any of city parks for practice.

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**myra manes** · October 23rd, 2009, 10:50 AM

I believe the daughter ...... her mom knew ..

**backlash** · October 23rd, 2009, 11:02 AM

Unfortunately, this is not too uncommon in some latin cultures. I worked with a Guatemalan lady that had a 16 year old daughter. She set her daughter up with a 32 year old police officer. He would go out at night, get hammered, then go over to her house and "be" with her daughter. She apparently didn't want her daughter to have to suffer in life (**irony**). As repulsed as we all were, with the parental consent it was legal in the state we lived in. Sad...

**Pene784** · October 23rd, 2009, 11:26 AM

Seriously what would the girls motivation be to lie about her mom approving of the relationship? Mom is an idiot

**ScribbleMuse** · October 23rd, 2009, 11:51 AM

Yeah, this doesn't surprise me. One of my best friends growing up was allowed to have a live-in 30+ year old boyfriend at age 13, when we were in the 8th grade. Later she married him and had 2 children before she graduated. I always felt so bad for her because she seemed so sad, but figured it was the way life was supposed to be. The consensus at that time was that it was allowed. Everyone knew--teachers, other parents, of course us students. There was no hiding it, and no need to defend it by referring to any law, because no one reported it that I know of.

My daughter just turned 11 this summer, and I've been terrified ever since simply because of my own childhood and what I considered "normal" or at least was accustomed to seeing. Parents need to start raising their kids to take care of themselves when they're adults, not grooming them for immediate relationships with sugar-daddies.

**backlash** · October 23rd, 2009, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by ScribbleMuse

Parents need to start raising their kids to take care of themselves when they're adults, not grooming them for immediate relationships with sugar-daddies.

Truer words could not have been spoken...

**Misskittychaos** · October 23rd, 2009, 12:38 PM

Jesus, I want to smack the mother. Why would you want this for your child? Why make them grow up too fast?

**AngelFire** · October 23rd, 2009, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by Misskittychaos

Jesus, I want to smack the mother. Why would you want this for your child? Why make them grow up too fast?

I hope the father of this girl got to his wife first. She should be beaten for what she did...That's no mother

**Dakota Valkyrie** · October 24th, 2009, 12:12 PM

Henderson Police have arrested the mother of a 15-year-old girl who was in an ongoing sexual relationship with a soccer coach.
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According to the mother's interview with police, she denied approving of her daughter's relationship with Lopez, and told her to end the affair.

The mother is facing a felony charge of child abuse, neglect or endangerment.

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