Ex-Fayetteville basketball coach ordered to serve up to 29 years after accepting plea deal

Superior Court Judge Jim Ammons sentenced Rodney Scott to serve a minimum prison sentence of 20 years and a maximum of 29 years in connection with the assaults of eight victims, who ranged in age from 13 to 16 years old, after Scott agreed to the deal.

The judge also ordered Scott to register as a sex offender for 30 years and he was prohibited from having contact with his victims.

Scott had been a foster parent, volunteered as a boys’ varsity basketball assistant coach at Pine Forest High, had coached a boys’ basketball team that competed in a Christian basketball league, worked as a safe schools coordinator at Pine Forest High and worked as a substitute teacher from 1997 to 2010.

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At the time the charges were announced, police said the coach used the sport to entice his victims.

“That was the part of the ruse he used. He lured them in with this dream of playing basketball at a higher level. That was an additional game he played with them with the basketball in additional of living with them with the basketball,” police investigator John Somerindyke said at the time.

Scott had been held at the Cumberland County Detention Center under a bond that soared to almost $22 million.