- Benjamin Beau Brady, a former Maple Mountain High coach, received home confinement.
- Brady pleaded guilty to sexual acts with two teens and providing them alcohol.
- He must register as a sex offender and serve four years of probation.
PROVO — A former Maple Mountain High School coach who admitted to engaging in a sexual act with two 17-year-old girls and providing them alcohol will spend time in home confinement before a lengthy probation after pleading guilty.
Benjamin Beau Brady, 28, was sentenced on June 8 to two terms of zero to five years in prison for unlawful sexual conduct with a 17-year-old, a third-degree felony, and two terms of one year in jail for furnishing alcohol to a minor, a class A misdemeanor.
Those sentences were suspended and he was instead ordered to serve 130 days in home confinement, in addition to the 50 days in jail he already served, before beginning four years of probation. The man was also ordered comply with group A sex offender conditions, including registering as a sex offender.
Brady, who worked as an assistant basketball coach, was fired from his position on Feb. 5, "as soon as the district learned of the allegations" according to a Nebo School District spokesman.
Charing documents said the man contacted a 17-year-old girl on Snapchat and said he would provide her and her friend alcohol if they met him in a parking lot and engaged in sexual acts. The girl agreed, but charges said her friend "did not want to do anything" but agreed to go to the parking lot. The three met in Provo and got into the back of Brady's truck, where he sexually abused both girls, charges claim.
"When he was done, he gave them alcohol and left," they said.
Provo police were contacted a week later. Brady admitted to officers that he had met up with one teenager multiple times, also meeting her friends on multiple times. He did not tell police what happened in the truck but said everything that happened was consensual.
The mother and father of the girls read statements at the sentencing, along with Brady, court records show.
On June 24, 3rd District Judge Joel Ferre amended the sentence to clarify what restrictions will exist after receiving questions. He specified that Brady would be able to stay at his home with his two children, ages 2 and 4, but could only be with them if an approved responsible adult is also present. Outside of his children, he was ordered to not contact any others under 18 years old or go to places where children congregate unless approved.
During home confinement, he is allowed to travel for work, medical, religious, legal or therapeutic purposes, when approved by Adult Probation and Parole.
Brady pleaded guilty to the charges in March. Charges of forcible sodomy, a first-degree felony, and three counts of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony, were dismissed as part of a plea deal. Additional charges of forcible sodomy and forcible sexual abuse were reduced to unlawful sexual conduct, a third-degree felony, before he pleaded guilty.
Utah County prosecutors also agreed as part of the plea deal to not ask for the prison sentence to be imposed, and to support releasing Brady from jail when the plea was entered.
Although the allegations were centered around actions in Utah County, the case was handled in the 3rd District Court after judicial officers recused themselves because of connections with Brady's father, a former 4th District Court judge.
