More victims of alleged ‘sexting’ baseball coach in O.C. sought
Orange County authorities are seeking any additional alleged victims of a longtime baseball coach accused of sending sexually explicit text messages to two teenage boys.
The district attorney’s office said Edwin Alan Wikstrom, 53, of Anaheim was to be arraigned Thursday on two felony counts of distributing pornography to a minor. He was being held in Orange County Central Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Wikstrom has been a baseball coach in Anaheim and Lakewood for more than 30 years, authorities said. He was arrested June 11 after a parent of one of the two boys discovered the text messages and notified Anaheim police, the D.A. said.
He met the boys, ages 16 and 17, through his volunteer coaching job at Katella High School, the D.A. said. Investigators allege Wikstrom sent the boys “sexually explicit text messages on multiple occasions” between 2011 and 2013.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Supervising Dist. Atty. Investigator Paul Carvo at (714) 347-8794 or Orange County Crime Stoppers at (855) TIP-OCCS.
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