12:50 p.m. EDT, June 29, 2013
The Winter Park High School coach arrested on several sex charges, including lewd and lascivious molestation of a girl under the age of 16, was released from jail Friday.
Ashley Sinclair Brown ? who took the girls basketball team from losing nearly every game to an 18-win season last year ? was arrested Thursday.
He posted the $5,600 bail Friday.
Brown, 29, the head coach for the girls team since May 2011, worked for the school district since March 2010. He makes about $18,000 annually as a program assistant.
Brown's job was to work in Winter Park's in-school suspension program. He was also an assistant coach for the football team, said Kathy Marsh, a district spokesman. He is accused of forcing a young girl to send him videos of herself "twerking," a sexually suggestive dance, police said.
The former University of Central Florida football player also asked the young girl to send him videos and photos of herself performing sexual acts.
He threatened to post information about her online if she refused to send the videos and photos.
The girl told her mother about Brown's inappropriate behavior and the mother informed police June 14.
The girl told her mother that she had been getting the messages since June 10.
She also said Brown had touched her inappropriately on school grounds at least twice.
Brown is also facing charges of contributing to the delinquency of a child and transmission harmful material to a child.
Brown was not working over the summer, Marsh said, but has been told that "at this point he is not welcome on the campus."
Further employment action likely will get underway when school district offices reopen Monday.
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