(South Bend, IN) - The former football coach at John Glenn High School has been cleared of criminal charges.

Last year John Barron was charged with battery after he was accused of smacking a female student on the rear end. The incident allegedly happened in November of 2023, and was reported to Walkerton police two months later.

Following an investigation that included review of video surveillance footage, the charge has been dropped.

The Motion to Dismiss, filed on December 6 in St. Joseph Superior Court 6, states that “the veracity of the original allegations have been called into question.”

Barron, who coached for over three decades at Plymouth and John Glenn, had to resign from his position last February.