State v. McInerney

A jury found defendant Bartholomew P. Mclnerney, a high school baseball coach, guilty of endangering the welfare of ten children under the age of eighteen, a crime of the second degree defined in subsection a of N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4.1 The judge sentenced him to three consecutive six-year terms of imprisonment and seven concurrent five-year terms.

This second-degree crime applies only to a “person having a legal duty for the care of a child or who has assumed responsibility for the care of a child.” N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4a. Although the evidence was adequate to permit the jury to conclude that defendant…