Ex-NFL Player Charged With Raping Teen Student

WRENTHAM, Mass. — A former NFL lineman and high school football coach was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail Tuesday after he was charged with raping a 15-year-old female student whose father allegedly found hundreds of text messages she received from the man.
Danny Villa, who played six seasons with the New England Patriots and was the athletic director at Walpole High School, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Wrentham District Court to three counts of rape of a child over 14 and three counts of enticing a minor. Judge Warren Powers also told Villa to stay away from the girl and her family, Walpole schools and any children under 16 except his own.
Villa's attorney, Heather Baer, said she planned to appeal the bail decision.
Prosecutors said Villa was the girl's basketball coach before she entered high school. The girl told police she had always been good friends with the 44-year-old Villa. more