Movie of the week stuff.
June 29, 2007 - Robert Dulin, 49, was summer league basketball coach when it is alleged he had a three-year sexual relationship with a student in 2003, starting when she was 16. The girl also allegedly became pregnant during the relationship and Dulin paid $575 for an abortion according to police.
He was first arrested in December 2005. He was placed under house arrest this week for allegedly making threatening phone calls to the victim. One of the calls came while the now-20-year-old woman was at the police station. He had his bail raised before for the same thing. (Charges still pending in Massachusetts for harassment.) The arrest in June 2006 was his third arrest for violating the court order to have no contact with the now 20-year-old woman. This, apparently, is his fourth arrest. He was charged this week with tampering with a witness, violating a protective order, threatening and harassment.
Dulin was a University of Connecticut basketball star and later, a former Merrill Lynch Co. vice president. He left his job in August 2005 about a month after being arrested for assaulting a former boyfriend of the alleged victim. The boyfriend supplied the first indication of the sexual relationship with the student. Dulin is married.
From the Milford Weekly:Ordinarily the affair would have been legal under Connecticut law. The legal age of consent is 16, but those in a position of authority like a coach or teacher are barred from having sexual relationships with anyone under their care who is younger than 18.
Whether Dulin qualifies under that law will be decided in the courts.
NO CONTEST PLEA July 5 - A judge found Dulin guilty on five counts of second-degree sexual assault, two counts of breach of peace and one count of criminal violation of the protective order, after Dulin's lawyer had entered no contest pleas on his behalf.
Several other pending cases against the former Merrill Lynch vice president, including a breach of peace charge in Derby Superior Court, will be dropped as part of the plea agreement when Dulin is sentenced in September, court officials said.Dulin will be sentenced September 14. (New Haven Register: The plea calls for a minimum mandatory sentence of nine months for the sex assault charge. As part of a plea agreement reached with prosecutors, Dulin also must serve five years of probation and register as a sex offender for 10 years.)
SENTENCED: Sept 14 - Dulin was sentenced to seven years, suspended after 18 months served, with four years probation. Dulin also must register as a sex offender for a 10-year-period.
