A Little Miss Kickball Laguna League coach was arrested June 21 on warrants for child grooming and online solicitation after a Nueces County family accused the coach of attempting to sexually solicit their 14-year-old.
The family filed a civil case against Harry Wallace Grabowske IV on June 10. Grabowske was arrested by the Corpus Christi Police Department at 5:45 a.m. June 21 and booked into the Nueces County Jail, where he was being held as of the morning of June 22.
“He was arrested for two warrants, online solicitation of a minor and child grooming,” according to an email from Corpus Christi Police Department.
According to Nueces County court records, the case was still in the pre-file status as of 10 a.m. June 22. Bail was set at $100,000 for the child grooming charge and $50,000 for the charge of online solicitation of a minor.
The family, which is unnamed in court filings because the case involves sexual exploitation of a minor, is seeking $1 million in damages.
The family alleges that Grabowske, who has served as a board member, coach and rules director for the youth sports league, used his position to obtain access to the girl, who rebuffed his advances.
Grabowske is accused of attempting to groom the girl in fall 2025 through “unsolicited sexual advances and sexually explicit electronic communications, a video captioned ‘cheer up sexy,’ late-night telephone calls placed to the child without her parents’ knowledge, exploitation of the child’s known emotional vulnerability, and a $200 Cash App payment sent to the child under false pretenses,” according to court documents filed by the family.
At the time, the girl reported the sexually explicit Instagram messages to the social media platform, after which Grabowske sent the payment, which the family’s petition characterizes as “an attempt to lure her back into sexual conversations and purchase her compliance, secrecy, and continued access.”
The petition says that the girl’s parents learned of the late-night phone calls in early June while reviewing call logs and filed a report with the Corpus Christi Police Department on June 5.
As a result of Grabowske’s actions, the girl “has suffered and continues to suffer severe emotional distress, mental anguish, fear, anxiety, humiliation, embarrassment, and psychological injury,” according to the petition.
No documents filed by the defense were publicly available as of June 22.
On June 17, the Laguna Little Miss Kickball Facebook account posted a statement noting that the state executive board for Little Miss Kickball had been notified of allegations against a coach, who was suspended from any involvement from the organization and issued a stay away order from the premises.
“Please know that we take these situations very seriously and have worked swiftly to continue to keep our organization a safe place for players and their families,” a Facebook statement attributed to Laguna Little Miss Kickball acting President Randy Spitzer states. “At this time we cannot comment on an ongoing investigation, and we are positioned to cooperate fully with the investigation.”
Little Miss Kickball was originally founded in Flour Bluff in 1970 with the Laguna league.
Olivia Garrett reports on education and community news in South Texas. Contact her at olivia.garrett@caller.com.
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