September 06, 2005

Home search may lead to more charges against coach at Pottsville school

POTTSVILLE (PA)
The Morning Call

By Chris Parker
Of The Morning Call

New charges may be pending against a Pottsville track and field coach accused of secretly videotaping half-clad teenage girls in a high school gym.

A search of Daniel M. Shields' home last week recovered a DVD burner ''which may allow us to view a DVD that we recovered in the first search, so there may be more charges filed,'' said Schuylkill County District Attorney Frank R. Cori.

Any new charges would be consolidated with the current charges against Shields, 61, of 30 Bryn Mawr Ave., Cori said.

Shields, a longtime track coach at Nativity BVM High School, allegedly videotaped three female students, two 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old, in April and May.

Posted by kshaw at September 6, 2005 07:45 AM