Nicholas Codutti

Introduction

Nicholas Alan Codutti is a former Texas high school football coach who led the Klein High School football program until his September 2026 arrest on two felony counts — indecency with a child and sexual performance by a child — tied to accusations that he sexually abused a former Tomball High School student, starting when she was 16 years old and babysitting for his family. The Harris County District Attorney’s charges were filed on September 25, 2026, and Klein ISD terminated his employment as soon as it was formally notified of the arrest. Codutti, 43, denies the allegations through his attorney and plans to plead not guilty; the case is in its earliest stage and nothing has been adjudicated.

Background Information

Codutti spent nearly a decade in Houston-area high school football. Tomball ISD employment records obtained by investigators show he worked for the district as an assistant football coach and teacher from August 2017 until February 2021, a stretch that overlapped the years the accuser says the abuse began. In January 2025 he was named head football coach and campus athletic coordinator at Klein High School, a prominent program in the Klein ISD district north of Houston. He is a 43-year-old father of two, and his family has been drawn into the case’s public fallout — his attorney has asked reporters to respect their privacy.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Charged, not adjudicated. The claims in this section are allegations from a Harris County Sheriff’s Office investigation and sworn charging documents, which detectives say are corroborated in part by records and witness interviews. The charges are formally filed but Codutti has never admitted them, has not been tried, and is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court. Through his attorney, Ryan Fremuth, he denies the allegations and plans to plead not guilty.

The investigation began on April 29, 2026, when Child Protective Services received a report alleging longstanding sexual abuse involving a minor who was a former Tomball ISD student, and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Crimes Against Children Unit took over. According to charging documents, the accuser — now 24 — told investigators Codutti had been her strength and conditioning coach at Tomball High School, that they first communicated through social media and exchanged nude photographs while she was a minor, and that she then began babysitting for him and his wife at their home, where she alleges sexual contact began when she was 16 — below Texas’s age of consent, which is 17. She told investigators she believed they first had sexual intercourse in February 2019, and detailed later encounters in a coaches’ office in the school’s weight room, at a local gym, and on trips off campus during lunch periods. The relationship, she said, continued after her graduation and into her adulthood, with a final alleged encounter around September 2025; she disclosed it to a therapist, whose report triggered the CPS referral. Investigators reviewed therapy and medical records, interviewed the woman’s mother — who confirmed the babysitting and the coach-student relationship — and obtained Tomball ISD’s employment records.

Detectives filed the charges — indecency with a child and sexual performance by a child, both felonies tied to alleged 2018 and 2019 incidents in Harris County — on September 25, 2026. Codutti was arrested the next day by the sheriff’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team, booked into the Harris County Jail with bond set at $100,000, $50,000 per count, and posted bond the following Sunday ahead of a scheduled court appearance. Klein ISD terminated his employment upon formal notification of the arrest.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The case drew immediate regional coverage in Houston and then national attention when the New York Post recounted the accusations’ details — the babysitting arrangement, the weight-room allegations, the seven-year span. Codutti’s attorney told KPRC 2: “We are asserting his innocence and denying the allegations as they are presented,” adding, “He denies that he ever sexually abused a child.” Fremuth also emphasized that the defense had not yet received investigators’ evidence and said he intends to examine the roughly seven-year gap between the alleged 2018–2019 conduct and the 2026 investigation. Klein ISD’s termination was effective immediately, and the school district where the abuse is alleged — Tomball ISD — had notified families of the investigation months earlier, in May 2026, when Codutti was first asked to step away from his Klein campus. As a bond condition, he is banned from schools and anywhere else children gather, with an exception for his own two children.

Current Status

Codutti is out on bond awaiting prosecution in Harris County. His court hearing was scheduled for the Monday after his arrest; his attorney says he hopes the case ends in dismissal or acquittal. The sheriff’s office says its investigation remains open and has asked anyone with information to contact its Crimes Against Children Unit. No trial date has been set, no plea has been entered on the record, and both felony counts — indecency with a child and sexual performance by a child — remain unadjudicated. He is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

Impact on Their Career/Life

A head-coaching career built across two Houston-area districts ended with one arrest: Klein ISD fired him on notification, and his bond conditions bar him from the campuses and youth-sport environments where his entire professional life was spent. Even if he is never convicted, the allegations — spanning his Tomball teaching years through his Klein head-coaching tenure — are now the first public record attached to his name, and the accuser’s decision to report, years later, through her therapist has become part of how the case is discussed in Texas high school football circles.

Sources

*Click2Houston (KPRC 2), “Klein HS head football coach terminated after arrest on child sex abuse charges” (September 27, 2026) — source
*Click2Houston (KPRC 2), “Former Tomball coach plans not guilty plea after arrest on child sex charges, attorney says” (September 27, 2026) — source
*New York Post, “HS football coach allegedly had sex with student for years — starting when she was his 16-year-old babysitter” (September 29, 2026) — source
*New York Post, @nypost post on X (September 29, 2026) — source