Anthony James Phillips, 61, of Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, California, United States is a retired teacher. Aside from Sunnyvale, he has lived in other parts of California including Palo Alto, Delhi and Santa Clara.
In 2009, Phillips allegedly sexually assaulted a student at Cupertino Middle School in Sunnyvale. At that time, he was a teacher at that school.
In 2019, Phillips retired from teaching. After retirement, he became a volunteer softball and basketball coach at Fremont High School in Sunnyvale.
On April 11, 2022, Phillips was arrested in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a Cupertino Middle School student in 2009. He was booked into Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose, Santa Clara County and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, forcible penetration with a foreign object and forcible penetration with a foreign object upon a child.
Incorporated on December 24, 1912, Sunnyvale is the birthplace of the video game industry. it is former location of Atari headquarters and the location of a fictional computer game company in “WarGames“, a 1983 sci-fi film starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy.
The late actress Ashleigh Aston Moore was born in Sunnyvale. Born in Santa Clara, retired professional baseball player Troy Tulowitzki attended Fremont High School in Sunnyvale.

