SEATTLE – An Eastside youth volleyball coach is charged with attempted child rape after a Seattle police detective, pretending online to be a 13-year-old girl, caught him in a sting.
Ronald Paul Swafford, 59, is charged with second degree attempted rape of a child.
According to court documents, Swafford answered an online ad placed by the undercover detective and identified himself as a girls volleyball coach. He allegedly sent a photo of himself with his volleyball team.
The detective was able to identify the team uniforms as the Northshore Junior Volleyball Program, a club program for girls age 14 to 18. The detective then went to the team website and found Swafford was listed as the coach.
Swafford allegedly told the undercover detective “he was very interested in teaching sex to the 13-year-old minor female child” and described in detail what he planned to do sexually, according to the probable cause document.
A meeting was set up on Feb. 3 in Seattle. Swafford arrived and was immediately arrested. Police said he was carrying a sex toy, lubrication and condoms.
Swafford was booked into the King County Jail on $300,000 bail.
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