“A former Cupertino High School football coach was sentenced yesterday to nearly 3 1/2 years in state prison for molesting two teenage girls, though more than 100 supporters, including former
49ers star Ronnie Lott, came forward on his behalf.
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge LaDoris H. Cordell said Jeff Lamson, a Homestead High School math teacher and coach from 1991 to 1997, still does not fully understand what he has done.
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"I do not think, Mr. Lamson, that you get it," Cordell said. "Your suffering pales in comparison to the suffering of the victims."
The judge said Lamson, 34, stressed his own misery when writing to her for leniency, devoting only one sentence to the plight of the girls.
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Four months ago, Lamson pleaded guilty to 12 felony counts of sexual offenses with a minor, a girl who was 16 at the time. That relationship began in 1990.“