Ex-Kansas athletic trainer sentenced for sexual exploitation

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — A former high school athletic trainer in Junction City has been sentenced to two months in a county jail and three years’ probation for sending obscene photos and text messages to an underage student. Television station KSNT reports that 30-year-old Brandon Martino was sentenced Monday in a Geary County courtroom after pleading no contest last month to a single count of sexual exploitation of a child. Martino’s license to serve as an athletic trainer was suspended in July by a state licensing board after an investigation found he had sent sexually explicit text messages and nude images of himself to the student. Martino was suspended from his Junction City High School job following his arrest in January.