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Benjamin Swain received heavy punishment in Charlotte federal court this week after admitting he secretly videotaped the youths, the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina said Tuesday.

Swain will remain in federal custody until he is assigned to a federal facility, the United States Attorney’s Office said. He will serve his 12 and 25-year sentences at the same time, a spokesman for the United States Attorney’s Office told the Observer on Tuesday.

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He is Benjamin Swain is 47 years old.

Charges – Arrested

A former tennis coach will serve 25 years in prison after admitting he searched three minors stripping and showering, federal prosecutors in Charlotte said Tuesday.

Benjamin Swain, 47, pleaded guilty to the sexual exploitation of a minor on December 9, 2019. Swain used a pen-type camera to record a 15-year-old and two 14-year-olds showering in the bathroom of a bedroom. hotel the four shared, according to a 2016 Charlotte-Mecklenburg police search warrant.

CMPD seized Swain’s camera, laptop and SIM card from his home in Thornbush Court in South Charlotte, according to the warrant. Swain also told Georgia police that he used the same equipment to search the minors, according to the warrant. The search also seized a handwritten letter, a Christmas card, 14 CDs and an iPhone.

Swain was previously sentenced to 12 years in prison for child molestation and for tempting a minor for indecent purposes. He and a 15-year-old girl fondled each other in Bibb County, Georgia, on June 3, 2016, the order said. This case is unrelated to the sexual exploitation charge and was prosecuted by the Georgia court system, says the United States Attorney’s Office in Charlotte.

During Monday’s hearing, Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. said Swain’s 25-year sentence should deter other coaches and people in similar positions from committing similar crimes. Swain will remain in federal custody until he is assigned to a federal facility, the United States Attorney’s Office said. He will serve his 12 and 25-year sentences at the same time, a spokesman for the United States Attorney’s Office told the Observer on Tuesday.

Because he is a British citizen, Swain will be subject to deportation proceedings once his sentences are up. If Swain is not deported, or if he returns to the United States, Cogburn has ordered that he serve a life on supervised release and that he register as a sex offender.

Swain is a former professional tennis player with 25 years of experience, according to various websites. He claimed to have helped more than 40 of his students obtain Division I scholarships, the Observer previously reported.