[Pollster1]

Parents need to be so much more cautious these days.

It's just the reverse. In the old days, a coach like that met up with a rope or a shotgun, and the problem disappeared. Today, we're more careful and more understanding, and our kids are far less safe. I'd want to be very sure before I acted on an accusation, but if it happened to my kid there would be no point in a trial.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

It's just the reverse. In the old days, a coach like that met up with a rope or a shotgun, and the problem disappeared.

Maybe sometimes. The reality is in the old days, at least to the early 1900's, predatory behavior in sweat shops, work houses, with apprentices and on orphans was practically universal. (There wasn't a lot of recreation back then.) Instead of going unreported until 30 years later, it just never got reported in any official way, just as anecdotes that did not lead to laws until the 20th Century. The age of consent was 10 in most states and countries, so it just never came up as an issue unless it involved children of the wealthy or a murder.

[Eva]

Your wrong, this has been going on for a very long time in swimming. In the old days, the coaches picked girls whose parents didn’t care if the coach was good enough.