BOSTON, Sept. 27, 2012— A youth baseball coach accused of grooming one of his players for sexual abuse was arraigned today in Suffolk Superior Court after he was indicted by the grand jury, District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

JOSE ORTEGA (D.O.B. 7/4/71) of Roslindale was arraigned on three counts of enticement of a child under 16. The indictments, returned by the Suffolk County Grand Jury on Sept. 25, stem from multiple incidents involving the same teenage boy.

Ortega, who goes by the nickname “Brujo,” has been held on $50,000 bail since his arraignment in West Roxbury District Court on July 16. Assistant District Attorney Laura Montgomery of Conley’s Child Protection Unit requested that Ortega’s bail remain the same and that he be required stay away and have no contact with his alleged victim and have no contact with children under 18. Clerk Magistrate Margaret Sanel granted her request.

Prosecutors said that Ortega met the victim, a 12-year-old boy, in a Jamaica Plain convenience store in March and invited him to join the Boston Broncos baseball league, which Ortega managed.

Over the months that followed, Ortega allegedly promised to get the boy into the Major Leagues and bought him a baseball bat, but also began making inappropriate comments in person, over the phone, and through Facebook.

During one conversation, prosecutors said, Ortega suggested that he and the victim shower together at Ortega’s house and watch videos of naked women.  On another occasion, Ortega allegedly asked the victim to meet him in his van alone, which the boy did not do.

In messages sent through Facebook chat, Ortega called the victim “pretty baby” and made sexually explicit comments, prosecutors said. A relative of the victim contacted police after seeing Facebook messages.

Ortega was represented by Josh Hanye. He will return to court on Oct. 24.

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