Reston Basketball Coach Will Remain Jailed on Abuse Charges

 
A Reston basketball coach accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl, was denied bond in a Loudoun County court on Tuesday, the Loudoun Times reported.

Marlow Mikassas Afshartous, 39, who also goes by the name Marlow Talley, was arrested Aug. 3 and charged with sexual assault and solicitation of child pornography after allegedly abusing a 12-year-old girl he coached and trained in basketball and requesting her to take a photograph of herself topless with his cellphone. 

Afshartous, who played basketball at Virginia Commonwealth University, has coached teams and trained players around the area, including at Claude Moore Recreation Center in Sterling and Georgetown Day School.
 
Prosecutors said the alleged abuse took place from April to November 2012 at three separate locations: Claude Moore Recreation Center, a church off Evergreen Mills Road and at an outdoor court on Braddock Road in Fairfax County.

Afshartous's trial is scheduled for March. Read more at the Loudountimes.com.