The former men’s basketball coach at Lawrence High School has pleaded guilty to federal charges tied to allegations he sexually assaulted a female high school student in 2022, according to the Manchester Police Department.
Jesus Moore, 35, was charged with aggravated felonious sexual assault in February 2024, after a woman came forward accusing him of assaulting her when she was a high school student. As part of that case, investigators learned that Moore, at the time a basketball coach at Lawrence High School, had arranged for a female student to get a ride to Manchester, New Hampshire, given her alcohol and sexually assaulted her at a Manchester motel.
The assault happened in 2022 and the victim was a minor at the time, police said. He was later charged with transportation to engage in unlawful sexual conduct, a federal charge. He has pleaded guilty in that case and will be sentenced in January 2026.
Resources for victims of sexual assault are available through the National Sexual Violence Resources Center and the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline at 800-656-4673, and Massachusetts provides this list of statewide and resources for sexual assault survivors.
According to The Eagle-Tribune newspaper, Moore was named basketball coach at Lawrence High School in 2018. He had previously worked as a physical education teacher at Lawrence’s Oliver Middle School. He was a basketball and a football star at Lawrence High School, graduating from the school in 2007.
In a statement issued earlier last year, Friday, the Lawrence Public Schools said only that they are aware of the charges filed against a staff member and that that staff member is on administrative leave. They said they will have “no additional comment on ongoing police and personnel matters.”