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Youth hockey coach facing more child rape charges

by By MIKE SMITH Montana Standard
| March 24, 2023 7:00 AM

BUTTE — A Flathead County youth hockey coach charged with raping a minor in a Butte motel in 2019 now faces five additional rape charges involving children — one filed in Butte-Silver Bow County and four filed in Flathead County.

A prosecutor in Butte-Silver Bow said Wednesday the additional sexual intercourse without consent charge against 47-year-old Jami Leslie James in Butte involved another underage victim...

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