Registered sex offender Clayton Hoff was about to serve his fourth year as an assistant coach for a youth football team when a local news station inquired to the league’s organizers about Hoff’s previous criminal record.

Hoff has two previous convictions of sexual assault on a child: one from 1987 and one from 1995, for which he served nearly six years in a Colorado state prison. Both charges were felonies, requiring him to register as a sex offender.

The head coach of the youth football team in Bennett, CO, Brandon Lambrecht, stated that he was aware of Hoff’s criminal history. He allowed Hoff to continue to work as long as he notified the parents of team members. A fellow parent found him on the sex offender registry in 2005, which was his first year serving as an assistant coach for the team on which his son plays.

Hoff told the news station which found his criminal record that he was never told he could not work for the team because of his status as a sex offender and that he would have left the team if they had asked him to.

The team plays in the Elizabeth Parks and Recreation District league. They did not have any records of Hoff being a coach within their league. They issued the following statement, “We conduct CBI background checks on all coaches. All head coaches and assistant coaches are required to sign a form stipulating that they have no convictions for any offense of a sexual nature or any offense of any kind involving children. We’ll be following up with the teams and coaches from Bennett to determine what involvement Mr. Hoff may have with a team.”

Clayton Hoff can be found on Colorado’s Convicted Sex Offender site here.