A former football player is in huge trouble after some horrific allegations surfaced.
Anthony Anderson, a former University of Tennessee football player, was working for Knox County School as an assistant track coach and was said to be using his position to get minors to have sex with him, indictments allege.
The 33-year-old resigned in 2021.
A Knox County grand jury first indicted Anderson in March 2021 in a five-count document alleging solicitation of a minor and attempted sexual battery by an authority figure. Records allege he committed the crimes between Aug. 1, 2020, and April 27, 2021.
If Anderson had been successful in inducing the alleged victims to have sex, it would have amounted to sexual battery by an authority figure, records state.
A grand jury on July 14 subsequently returned a second set of indictments, alleging aggravated statutory rape, sexual activity involving minor and sexual exploitation of a minor. The counts involve one victim. Crimes allegedly occurred between Dec. 24, 2021, and Feb. 6 of this year.
Charges state he is alleged to have had sex with a victim, who was at least 13 but younger than 18, on February 6.
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Witnesses in the investigation include personnel from Austin-East High School, records show.
Anderson played at Tennessee from 2009 to 2011. He played as a defensive back and WR.
