Posted on 04/09/2010 2:47:33 PM PDT by GreaterSwiss
(Newser) – USA Swimming has been rocked by the disclosure that 36 coaches have been banned for life for molesting teen athletes over the last 10 years, according to a suit brought by victims' families. Coaches secretly videotaped, fondled, and were otherwise indecent with their charges, court papers reveal. One coach in Indiana set up a camera in a "special" shower room and secretly filmed his athletes while they bathed, ABC News reports.
In some cases, the itinerant coaching lifestyle allowed predators to stay one step ahead of authorities and victims' families. Another coach, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison last year for molesting over a dozen female teens, would switch towns after arousing suspicion. His 30 years of sexual predation highlight the ineffectiveness of background checks by USA Swimming, the sport's national governing body, which cleared him in 2008.
Banned for life? Ahh how about some jail time here. Is the NCAA protecting these freaks?
Trunkless swimming at Catholic high schools was the norm, at least through the 1960s, in my experience.
I don’t think you went to a typical Catholic high school.
I hope just for the boys.
That I did not know.
Chicagoland it was normal. And no schools were coed, but I don’t remember the norm for the girls.
36 USA Swimming Coaches Molested Teen Athletes
Well hell, we ought to let swimming coaches marry (but not each other). That will solve the problem.
If they would let them marry they wouldn’t have this problem.
Did the pope “defrock” these people yet??
Good for you. You rock!
If only swimming coaches were allowed to marry...
Ya know, in spite of myself....I read your reply and the first thing that flashed through my mind was a scene from the old series "Friends". Joey, the ditzy actor-dude, was describing to his male friends (Ross, Chandler) how his tailor would measure him for trousers, including the tailor...um...."lifting" his "stuff" and moving it to one side, then the other, as he measured his inseam. As his friends looked at him slack-jawed, he says "Well isn't that normal?"
Ross deadpans "Yes..........in prison!!!!!!"
wow...You and your wife can be very very proud of the effort you went to to protect and show your children them you loved them
Many parents think “sports” is babysitting.
Yup..first time I ever heard that one.
ROFL!
“Are they going to blame Pope Benedict for this too?”
I don’t see the parallel with the Catholic Church troubles, other than apparently complaints and charges were not taken seriously - and should have been, and there are a large number of innocent victims.
Some do, most I know believe sports are excellent skills to learn while growing up and being part of the community.
We have taxed both parents out of the house and now ask why are unsupervised children not behaving and others being predators to them.
Both my parents worked full time...I was never unsupervised..my mother always said, “Its easier NOT to discipline or supervise a child, it takes more effort and time to be an involved parent.”
Kudos to you two!
I went to Lane Tech in Chicago (a public school) in the 70s - it was still nude swimming there. I tell kids that these days and they just don't believe it.
Sure they do. Only now it’s co-ed.
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