Former Jacksonville baseball coach sentenced to life in prison

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Julio Acosta Morgado, a former youth baseball coach in Jacksonville, will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

He was sentenced on Friday in the Duval County Courthouse.

Action News Jax told you in January when Morgado was arrested on child sex charges. His victims were as young as 12 years old.

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His victims told investigators that they would train at Morgado’s house and that those training sessions would lead to massages, which would then lead to sex acts.

In addition to a life sentence, Morgado was also designated a sexual predator.

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