Ex-Coach Is Sentenced on Phone Charge

BURBANK — A former Burbank High School football coach pleaded no contest Tuesday to charges that he made annoying phone calls to another coach who exposed the Salle Dumm sex scandal.

Municipal Judge Rand Rubin sentenced John Paul Greaves to 200 hours on a Caltrans cleanup crew and two days in city jail.

In exchange for Greaves’ plea, prosecutors dropped misdemeanor charges of failing to report child abuse and making death threats against former Burbank High head football coach John Hazelton, Deputy Dist. Atty. Robert Walters said.

Greaves, a part-time assistant coach from 1994 to 1995, was accused of knowing about an alleged July 14 sexual encounter between Dumm, president of the Burbank Education Foundation, and a 17-year-old football player, but failing to notify district administrators or authorities.

Prosecutors had also accused Greaves of threatening Hazelton in order to keep the sex allegations against Dumm quiet, as well as failing to report the alleged incidents.

Prosecutors argued that Greaves, as a district employee, was required by state law to report incidents of child abuse to his supervisors or authorities.

But the plea-bargain was reached Tuesday after Greaves’ attorney, James Goldstein, countered that Greaves was not under contract to the district during the summer, when the alleged incident occurred, and therefore was not required to report it.

Rubin also ordered Greaves, 32, not to contact or harass Hazelton, former school counselor Maureen Burke, who has also accused Greaves of making threats, and the 17-year-old football player.

Dumm, a prominent fund-raiser and school booster, faces a Superior Court trial in July on a statutory rape charge. Her arrest also led to the resignation of former school board President Joe Hooven, who admitted knowing about the allegations but failing to report them. Hazelton also faces trial on a misdemeanor charge of failing to report child abuse.