Fullerton Junior All American Bears

The Fullerton Junior All American Bears are members of the Orange County Junior All American Football Conference (OCJAAF). Comprised of twenty-nine (29) chapter (city) members throughout the Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties, OCJAAF is the largest youth football and cheerleading organization in the nation. The Fullerton Junior All American Bears are honored to contribute to OCJAAF's diversity, which makes the Orange County Junior All American Football Conference number one in competition. The Fullerton Junior All American Bears are proud to sponsor OCJAAF's core values of "family" and of "community" - the standards that keep OCJAAF and the Fullerton Junior All American Bears a leading youth football and cheerleading organization. Families come in many combinations and we celebrate the word of "family" as meaning: team, the Fullerton Junior All American Bears, community and the OCJAAF Conference. There is nothing stronger than the spirit in the word of family and you will see it and feel it within the Fullerton Junior All American Bears organization and our OCJAAF Conference.

The objective of the Fullerton Junior All American Bears program is to inspire youth, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin; to practice the ideals of health, citizenship and character; to bring our youth closer together through the means of a common interest in sportsmanship, fair play and fellowship; to impart to the game elements of safety, sanity and intelligent supervision; and to keep the welfare of the player and/or cheerleader first, foremost and entirely free of adult lust for glory.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Pop Warner football league coach arrested

Youth football league coach arrested on sex abuse charges
Posted: Mar 13, 2012 10:10 PM PDT Updated: Mar 13, 2012 10:22 PM PDT
By FOX 12 Staff - email

PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) -

Parents of a local youth football league are angry and concerned after one of their coaches was arrested for sex abuse charges.

Otha Banks Jr. was an assistant coach for the Portland Pop Warner league.

Parents say Banks has been coaching boys in seventh- and eighth-grade since 2009.

The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office says they can't reveal the details of the case. But authorities say the alleged abuse spanned several years and involved three victims, all under 18.
They say the victims were all related to Banks in some way - none were players on the league.
What has parents most concerned is Banks' criminal past.

FOX 12 found 12 other mug shots of Banks from previous arrests. He was convicted for assault in 1994, for drug charges in 2000 and for felon in possession of a firearm in 2009.
Portland Pop Warner claims all coaches must pass a thorough criminal background check. So how could a man like Banks get through?

"I don't know. That's what kind of makes me angry is how either they didn't do it or they did it and swept it under the carpet," Kevin Arrington, a former assistant coach with Portland Pop Warner, said.

Phone calls and emails to both the local and national league have not been returned.

The Warrant Strike Team had been actively looking for Banks until he turned himself in today.
Banks' arraignment is scheduled for tomorrow.

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