By Hudson Sangree
hsangree@sacbee.com
An Esparto youth soccer coach and foster parent pleaded not guilty this morning in Yolo Superior Court to 48 felonies and six misdemeanor counts of molesting or endangering two children over a period of more than four years.
Cristan Rooms, 29, is being held in lieu of $12 million bail in the Yolo County Jail. A court commissioner earlier set bail at $250,000 for each felony count.
Prosecutor Rob Gorman said he expects to file additional charges - and to disclose additonal victims - when the parties to return to court March 13.
"I will have disclosed all of the victims (by then)," Gorman told Judge Timothy Fall.
In the hallway of the Woodland courthouse, Gorman said the Yolo County Sheriff's investigation is continuing with agencies in Solano and Marin counties contributing information.
"(The investigation) has stretched as far as Marin County," he said.
He said Rooms was also involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters and other organizations.
Gorman declined to disclose information about other possible victims, saying Esparto was such a small community that any details would allow residents to easily identify the minors involved.
"The investigation still has a long way to go," he said.
The prosecutors' complaint lists four dozen instances when Rooms allegedly molested a child 14 or younger by showering with him and improperly touching him. The assaults started in June 2007 and continued through June of this year, the complaint says.
Six child endangerment charges in the complaint relate to another child whose age and gender are unspecified.
In addition, a foster child was removed from Rooms' custody by Yolo County child welfare agents in the weeks before his arrest.
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