[Steely Tom]

I know of two females - one a childhood friend of my sister's, the other the daughter of a high-school classmate - who were groomed and then molested/raped by gymnastics coaches on road trips.

Both were gifted athletes who's parents were paying private coaches to develop what they hoped were national- or Olympic-level talents in their daughters.

Both had their lives basically ruined. Drug abuse, alcoholism, inability to have relationships, suicidal tendencies.

[PCPOET7]

parents need to watch the access any adult has to there child.