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Bellator champion Ilima-Lei MacFarlane among those accusing former coach of sexual abuse

Earlier this week HawaiiNewsNow reported that Bellator flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane, and two others, filed a lawsuit against Dwayne Yuen; a former basketball coach at Punahou School in Honolulu, HI. Macfarlane joined Punahou as a kindergartner and graduated in 2009.

Macfarlane’s lawsuit accuses Yuen of beginning to groom her and her sister in 2003, when the girls were 12 and 14-years-old. In the lawsuit the sisters state that Yuen forced the sisters to touch his genitals, offered cash for sex acts and sent them explicit photos of himself.

A third Punahou student, who is not named in the lawsuit, accused Yuen of sexual abuse and claimed that Yuen sent her threatening texts and phone messages.