ABUSIVE COACHES
November 23, 2023 - Los Angeles - They Claimed Their High School Coach Sexually Abused Them, Now He's In Custody, reported by Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times.
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November 22, 2023 - St. George, UT - Utah Tech Women's Basketball Coach Receives Suspension After Investigation Into Misconduct Allegations, reported by Eric Walden, Salt Lake Tribune.
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November 16, 2023 - New York, NY - NYC Flag Football Coach Paid At Least Four Kids As Much as $1.6K for Nude Pics: DA, reported by Priscilla DeGregory and Kyle Schnitzer, New York Post.
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November 12, 2023 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Utah Gymnastics Coach Tom Farden Placed On Administrative Leave, reported by Trent Wood, Salt Lake City Deseret News. Coach Farden is accused of verbal and emotional abuse.
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November 6, 2023 - Tampa, FL - Video: Jesuit High School Assistant Football Coach Fired After Being Caught On Camera Punching Player, reported by Fox 13 TV, Tampa Bay.
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September 19, 2023 - Southwest Florida - WINK Exclusive: Football Coach Breaks Silence After Viral Video Berating His Own Players, reported by Michael Hudak, WINK TV. See also, Naples Prep School Football Coach Steps Away After Profane Video Shared On Social Media, reported by Dan DeLuca, Naples Daily News,September 9, 2023.
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September 13, 2023 - Martinez, CA - Bay Area College Coach Charged With Pimping Women Into Prostitution, reported by Amy Larson and Phillippe Djegal, KRON 4 TV.
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August 26, 2023 - Atlanta, GA - High School Football Coach In Atlanta Strikes Player On Sideline During Game, reported by Talgat Almanov and Joshua Skinner, Atlanta News First.
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July 27, 2023 - Tallahassee, FL - Leon High Places Head Volleyball Coach Angie Strickland on Leave Amid Investigation, reported by Liam Rooney, Tallahassee Democrat.
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May 1, 2023 - Tampa Bay, FL - Florida High School Football Coach Steps Down After Assistants Fight At Practice: report, reported by Ryan Morik, Fox News, May 11, 2023.
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January 6, 2023 - Heath, TX - Texas High School Football Coach On Leave After Players Forced to Do Nearly 400 Push-Ups, reported by Mike Smith, KXAN-TV (Austin), January 13, 2023; see also Texas HS Football Players Hospitalized After Coach Made Them Do 400 Push-Ups As Punishment, reported by Mary Ann Martinez, New York Post, January 11, 2023.
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November 15, 2022 - Sacramento, CA - Former St. Francis High School Track Coach Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Student, CBS 13 Sacramento.
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October 26, 2022 - Mason, MI - Youth Referee, Coach Arrested For Sexual Assault of Minor, reported by Krystle Hollmen, WILX TV (Lansing, MI).
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October 4, 2022 - Investigation Finds Systemic Abuse and Misconduct Within Women's Professional Soccer, reported by David Close and Eric Levenson, CNN. The report was commissioned by the US Soccer Federation. The worst part of this report is the finding that, "Abuse in the NWSL is rooted in a deeper culture in women's soccer, beginning in youth leagues, that normalizes verbally abusive coaching and blurs boundaries between coaches and players." See also, FIFA Backs Executives After Failure To Tell Players About Sexually Abusive Coach, The Guardian, November 3, 2022; and NWSL Permanently Bans Four Coaches, Including Paul Riley, and Drops The Hammer With Team Fines and Suspensions, reported by Sandra Herrera, CBS.com., January 9, 2023.
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September 21, 2022 - Senators Demand Answers From Dep't of Defense After Reports of JROTC Instructor Abuse, reported by Deepa Shivaram, NPR.
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September 6, 2022 - Mobile, AL - Shocking Video Allegedly Shows Blount High School Head Football Coach Spanking Player, reported by Emily Pounds, NBC News Channel 15.
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August 12, 2022 - Canada - Calls For Accountability And Changes Within Canadian Hockey Mount In The Wake of National Scandal, reported by Karen Pauls, CBC News; See also Sexual Assault Revelations Turn Canada's National Game Into The Nation's Shame, reported by Ian Austen, New York Times, August 14, 2022.
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July 16, 2022 - San Antonio, TX - SA Youth Basketball Coach Arrested, Accused of Failing To Disclose He's A Registered Sex Offender, reported by Dillon Collier, KSAT.com TV.
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June 2022 – Berkeley, CA – Chaos At Cal. Abusive Swim Coach and Doctor or Unfair Students and Administrators? See the following articles on Cal’s Women’s Swimming Program:
See: Cal Women’s Swim Coach Put on Leave After Allegations Of Bullying Students, reported by Nanette Asimov and Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, May 26, 2022; and Ex-UC Berkeley Swimmer on McKeever: I honestly didn’t know how far she would go’, reported by Scott Reid, Orange County Register, May 28, 2022; and Attorney Alleges UC Berkeley Coach Teri McKeever is the Victim of Gender Bias, reported by Scott Reid, Orange County Register, June 25, 2022; and the coach is not alone as the team doctor faces accusations also - see: More Turmoil In Berkeley As Cal Team Doctor Faces Allegations of Misconduct, reported by James Sutherland, swimswam.com, June 24, 2022, and Former Cal Swimmer Pens Personal Essay Describing Teri McKeever's Alleged Abuse, reported by Riley Overend, swimswam.com, July 3, 2022. The Cal swimming came to an end in January, 2023. See UC Berkeley Fires Swim Coach Teri McKeever, reported by Scott Reid, The Orange County Register, January 31, 2023.
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June 19, 2022 - Riverside, CA - California Youth Basketball Coach Accused of Sexual Assault, reported by Bradford Betz, Foxnews.com.
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May 26, 2022 - San Rafael, CA - Police: Youth Swim Coach Sought Sex With Teen, reported by John Ferrannini, KRON4 TV (San Francisco).
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June 19, 2019 - Los Angeles, CA - Track Coach, Subject of OTL Investigation, Arrested on Charges Of Molesting A Former Athlete, ESPN.com.
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June 1, 2019 - Louisville, KY - Coach Investigated - And Eventually Terminated - For Not Stopping Racial Taunting. See JCPS Investigates Butler Coach After Players Reportedly Directed Slurs At Teammate, reported by Billy Kobin, Louisville Courier Journal.
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May 29, 2019 - Chambersburg, PA - Soccer Player Molested By Coach Sues Central Pa. School District In Federal Court, reported by Matt Miller, Pennlive.com.
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March 26, 2019 - Highland Heights, KY - NK Players Accuse Women's Basketball coach Of Bullying, Abuse, and Having a 'Crying Couch'., reported by Kate Murphy, Sarah Brookbank, and James Weber, Cincinnati Enquirer,.
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December 20, 2017 - Sacramento, CA - Schools can be held liable for coach sexual abuse where they know or should have known about the abusive coach. A former Sacramento student just filed a civil case against her old high school, alleging that her former soccer coach Michael Martis, sexually abused her at Sacramento's St. Francis High School. See Catholic School Coach Should Have Known Coach Was Sexual Predator, Lawsuit Says, reported by Cynthia Hubert, Sacramento Bee.
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October 31, 2017 - Think Child Sex Abuse Can't Happen in Your Youth or High School League: Think Again. We mostly hear about the most prominent incidents - like USA Gymnastics' and USA Swimmings' scandals. But, here are a few small town abuse cases: See Former Coach Charged With Child Sex Abuse Was Go-To Guy In Community, reported by Tanya Eiserer, WFAA (Kaufman County, TX), October 31, 2017 (multiple allegations of abuse against Edward Mann, a long-time youth baseball coach); Southern Nash HS Teacher, Coach and Alum is Charged in Raleigh With Student Sex Crimes, reported by Ron Gallagher, Charlotte (NC) News and Observer, October 31, 2017 (allegations of statutory rape against Joshua Sessoms, a science teacher and coach); HIV Positive Ex-School Aide Indicted on More Sex Abuse Charges, WUSA - Channel 9, Charles County, MD, October 23, 2017 (multiple allegations of abuse against Carlos Bell, a middle school teachers' aide and high school track coach).
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August 25, 2017 - Denver, CO - Cheerleading Coach Fired After Being Caught on Video Forcing Teens Into Splits, CBS News Denver.
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August 16, 2017 - Kingsport, TN - Why do we need to run background checks on coaches? See 11 Men Including Middle School Coach Charged in Human Trafficking Sting in Kingsport, reported by Lauren Hoar, WBIR TV. In case you're curious, the sting consisted of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation posting web ads for sex with underage girls. The coach was one of four people facing felony charges for a sting operation that lasted only four days. That's a lot of bad actors caught in a limited amount of time.
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September 13, 2016 - Ex-Olympic Team Doc Accused of Sex Abuse, reported by Mark Alesia, Marisa Kwiatkowski, and Tim Evans, USA Today, September 13, 2016, page 1A. The USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal grows as former team doctor Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics are sued.
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August 4, 2016 - Sex Abuse Scandal Hits USA Gymnastics. Click here for USA Today coverage: See A Blind Eye To Sex Abuse: How USA Gymnastics Protected Coaches Over Kids By Failing To Report Allegations Of Misconduct, reported by Marisa Kwiatkowski, Mark Alesia and Tim Evans, USA Today, August 4, 2016. Click here for Indianapolis Star Coverage under the same title. For more, see the follow up article by the same reporters, Sexual Predators Left Off List Of Banned USA Coaches, August 7, 2016. See Also: USA Gymnastics Ignored Stories Of Coaches' Child Sex Abuse For Years While Athletes Suffered, reported by Christina Cauterucci, Slate.com, August 5, 2016.
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July 19, 2016 - Denison, IA - Denison High School Coach, Teacher Charged With Sex Abuse, reported by Gordon Wolf, Council Bluff Daily Nonpareil. Bryant Rasmussen, the Denison cross country coach, was arrested on "charges relating to alleged sexual abuse of a female student."
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July 19, 2016 - New York, N.Y. - Marcus Stroud, volunteer wrestling coach, charged with sexual abuse. See Wrestling Coach, 19, Charged With Sexually Abusing Teenage Boy, reported by Reuven Blau, New York Daily News.
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March 10, 2016 - Los Angeles, CA - 18 Students Accuse Torrance High Wrestling Coach of Molestation, Detail Alleged Sex Abuse In Lawsuit, reported by KTLA Channel 5's Kareen Wynter, and the Los Angeles Times.
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YOUTH SPORTS
July 7, 2016 - Embezzlement in Youth Sports: It's always been a problem; now it's getting worse. See The Trusted Grown-Ups Who Steal Millions From Youth Sports reported by Bill Pennington, New York Times. Also see, the New York Times's follow up piece: When Everyone's Grandma is The Town's Little League Thief, reported by Bill Pennington, New York Times, July 20, 2016.
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November 23, 2023 - Los Angeles - They Claimed Their High School Coach Sexually Abused Them, Now He's In Custody, reported by Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times.
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November 22, 2023 - St. George, UT - Utah Tech Women's Basketball Coach Receives Suspension After Investigation Into Misconduct Allegations, reported by Eric Walden, Salt Lake Tribune.
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November 16, 2023 - New York, NY - NYC Flag Football Coach Paid At Least Four Kids As Much as $1.6K for Nude Pics: DA, reported by Priscilla DeGregory and Kyle Schnitzer, New York Post.
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November 12, 2023 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Utah Gymnastics Coach Tom Farden Placed On Administrative Leave, reported by Trent Wood, Salt Lake City Deseret News. Coach Farden is accused of verbal and emotional abuse.
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November 6, 2023 - Tampa, FL - Video: Jesuit High School Assistant Football Coach Fired After Being Caught On Camera Punching Player, reported by Fox 13 TV, Tampa Bay.
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September 19, 2023 - Southwest Florida - WINK Exclusive: Football Coach Breaks Silence After Viral Video Berating His Own Players, reported by Michael Hudak, WINK TV. See also, Naples Prep School Football Coach Steps Away After Profane Video Shared On Social Media, reported by Dan DeLuca, Naples Daily News,September 9, 2023.
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September 13, 2023 - Martinez, CA - Bay Area College Coach Charged With Pimping Women Into Prostitution, reported by Amy Larson and Phillippe Djegal, KRON 4 TV.
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August 26, 2023 - Atlanta, GA - High School Football Coach In Atlanta Strikes Player On Sideline During Game, reported by Talgat Almanov and Joshua Skinner, Atlanta News First.
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July 27, 2023 - Tallahassee, FL - Leon High Places Head Volleyball Coach Angie Strickland on Leave Amid Investigation, reported by Liam Rooney, Tallahassee Democrat.
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May 1, 2023 - Tampa Bay, FL - Florida High School Football Coach Steps Down After Assistants Fight At Practice: report, reported by Ryan Morik, Fox News, May 11, 2023.
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January 6, 2023 - Heath, TX - Texas High School Football Coach On Leave After Players Forced to Do Nearly 400 Push-Ups, reported by Mike Smith, KXAN-TV (Austin), January 13, 2023; see also Texas HS Football Players Hospitalized After Coach Made Them Do 400 Push-Ups As Punishment, reported by Mary Ann Martinez, New York Post, January 11, 2023.
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November 15, 2022 - Sacramento, CA - Former St. Francis High School Track Coach Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Student, CBS 13 Sacramento.
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October 26, 2022 - Mason, MI - Youth Referee, Coach Arrested For Sexual Assault of Minor, reported by Krystle Hollmen, WILX TV (Lansing, MI).
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October 4, 2022 - Investigation Finds Systemic Abuse and Misconduct Within Women's Professional Soccer, reported by David Close and Eric Levenson, CNN. The report was commissioned by the US Soccer Federation. The worst part of this report is the finding that, "Abuse in the NWSL is rooted in a deeper culture in women's soccer, beginning in youth leagues, that normalizes verbally abusive coaching and blurs boundaries between coaches and players." See also, FIFA Backs Executives After Failure To Tell Players About Sexually Abusive Coach, The Guardian, November 3, 2022; and NWSL Permanently Bans Four Coaches, Including Paul Riley, and Drops The Hammer With Team Fines and Suspensions, reported by Sandra Herrera, CBS.com., January 9, 2023.
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September 21, 2022 - Senators Demand Answers From Dep't of Defense After Reports of JROTC Instructor Abuse, reported by Deepa Shivaram, NPR.
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September 6, 2022 - Mobile, AL - Shocking Video Allegedly Shows Blount High School Head Football Coach Spanking Player, reported by Emily Pounds, NBC News Channel 15.
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August 12, 2022 - Canada - Calls For Accountability And Changes Within Canadian Hockey Mount In The Wake of National Scandal, reported by Karen Pauls, CBC News; See also Sexual Assault Revelations Turn Canada's National Game Into The Nation's Shame, reported by Ian Austen, New York Times, August 14, 2022.
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July 16, 2022 - San Antonio, TX - SA Youth Basketball Coach Arrested, Accused of Failing To Disclose He's A Registered Sex Offender, reported by Dillon Collier, KSAT.com TV.
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June 2022 – Berkeley, CA – Chaos At Cal. Abusive Swim Coach and Doctor or Unfair Students and Administrators? See the following articles on Cal’s Women’s Swimming Program:
See: Cal Women’s Swim Coach Put on Leave After Allegations Of Bullying Students, reported by Nanette Asimov and Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, May 26, 2022; and Ex-UC Berkeley Swimmer on McKeever: I honestly didn’t know how far she would go’, reported by Scott Reid, Orange County Register, May 28, 2022; and Attorney Alleges UC Berkeley Coach Teri McKeever is the Victim of Gender Bias, reported by Scott Reid, Orange County Register, June 25, 2022; and the coach is not alone as the team doctor faces accusations also - see: More Turmoil In Berkeley As Cal Team Doctor Faces Allegations of Misconduct, reported by James Sutherland, swimswam.com, June 24, 2022, and Former Cal Swimmer Pens Personal Essay Describing Teri McKeever's Alleged Abuse, reported by Riley Overend, swimswam.com, July 3, 2022. The Cal swimming came to an end in January, 2023. See UC Berkeley Fires Swim Coach Teri McKeever, reported by Scott Reid, The Orange County Register, January 31, 2023.
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June 19, 2022 - Riverside, CA - California Youth Basketball Coach Accused of Sexual Assault, reported by Bradford Betz, Foxnews.com.
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May 26, 2022 - San Rafael, CA - Police: Youth Swim Coach Sought Sex With Teen, reported by John Ferrannini, KRON4 TV (San Francisco).
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June 19, 2019 - Los Angeles, CA - Track Coach, Subject of OTL Investigation, Arrested on Charges Of Molesting A Former Athlete, ESPN.com.
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June 1, 2019 - Louisville, KY - Coach Investigated - And Eventually Terminated - For Not Stopping Racial Taunting. See JCPS Investigates Butler Coach After Players Reportedly Directed Slurs At Teammate, reported by Billy Kobin, Louisville Courier Journal.
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May 29, 2019 - Chambersburg, PA - Soccer Player Molested By Coach Sues Central Pa. School District In Federal Court, reported by Matt Miller, Pennlive.com.
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March 26, 2019 - Highland Heights, KY - NK Players Accuse Women's Basketball coach Of Bullying, Abuse, and Having a 'Crying Couch'., reported by Kate Murphy, Sarah Brookbank, and James Weber, Cincinnati Enquirer,.
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December 20, 2017 - Sacramento, CA - Schools can be held liable for coach sexual abuse where they know or should have known about the abusive coach. A former Sacramento student just filed a civil case against her old high school, alleging that her former soccer coach Michael Martis, sexually abused her at Sacramento's St. Francis High School. See Catholic School Coach Should Have Known Coach Was Sexual Predator, Lawsuit Says, reported by Cynthia Hubert, Sacramento Bee.
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October 31, 2017 - Think Child Sex Abuse Can't Happen in Your Youth or High School League: Think Again. We mostly hear about the most prominent incidents - like USA Gymnastics' and USA Swimmings' scandals. But, here are a few small town abuse cases: See Former Coach Charged With Child Sex Abuse Was Go-To Guy In Community, reported by Tanya Eiserer, WFAA (Kaufman County, TX), October 31, 2017 (multiple allegations of abuse against Edward Mann, a long-time youth baseball coach); Southern Nash HS Teacher, Coach and Alum is Charged in Raleigh With Student Sex Crimes, reported by Ron Gallagher, Charlotte (NC) News and Observer, October 31, 2017 (allegations of statutory rape against Joshua Sessoms, a science teacher and coach); HIV Positive Ex-School Aide Indicted on More Sex Abuse Charges, WUSA - Channel 9, Charles County, MD, October 23, 2017 (multiple allegations of abuse against Carlos Bell, a middle school teachers' aide and high school track coach).
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August 25, 2017 - Denver, CO - Cheerleading Coach Fired After Being Caught on Video Forcing Teens Into Splits, CBS News Denver.
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August 16, 2017 - Kingsport, TN - Why do we need to run background checks on coaches? See 11 Men Including Middle School Coach Charged in Human Trafficking Sting in Kingsport, reported by Lauren Hoar, WBIR TV. In case you're curious, the sting consisted of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation posting web ads for sex with underage girls. The coach was one of four people facing felony charges for a sting operation that lasted only four days. That's a lot of bad actors caught in a limited amount of time.
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September 13, 2016 - Ex-Olympic Team Doc Accused of Sex Abuse, reported by Mark Alesia, Marisa Kwiatkowski, and Tim Evans, USA Today, September 13, 2016, page 1A. The USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal grows as former team doctor Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics are sued.
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August 4, 2016 - Sex Abuse Scandal Hits USA Gymnastics. Click here for USA Today coverage: See A Blind Eye To Sex Abuse: How USA Gymnastics Protected Coaches Over Kids By Failing To Report Allegations Of Misconduct, reported by Marisa Kwiatkowski, Mark Alesia and Tim Evans, USA Today, August 4, 2016. Click here for Indianapolis Star Coverage under the same title. For more, see the follow up article by the same reporters, Sexual Predators Left Off List Of Banned USA Coaches, August 7, 2016. See Also: USA Gymnastics Ignored Stories Of Coaches' Child Sex Abuse For Years While Athletes Suffered, reported by Christina Cauterucci, Slate.com, August 5, 2016.
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July 19, 2016 - Denison, IA - Denison High School Coach, Teacher Charged With Sex Abuse, reported by Gordon Wolf, Council Bluff Daily Nonpareil. Bryant Rasmussen, the Denison cross country coach, was arrested on "charges relating to alleged sexual abuse of a female student."
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July 19, 2016 - New York, N.Y. - Marcus Stroud, volunteer wrestling coach, charged with sexual abuse. See Wrestling Coach, 19, Charged With Sexually Abusing Teenage Boy, reported by Reuven Blau, New York Daily News.
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March 10, 2016 - Los Angeles, CA - 18 Students Accuse Torrance High Wrestling Coach of Molestation, Detail Alleged Sex Abuse In Lawsuit, reported by KTLA Channel 5's Kareen Wynter, and the Los Angeles Times.
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YOUTH SPORTS
July 7, 2016 - Embezzlement in Youth Sports: It's always been a problem; now it's getting worse. See The Trusted Grown-Ups Who Steal Millions From Youth Sports reported by Bill Pennington, New York Times. Also see, the New York Times's follow up piece: When Everyone's Grandma is The Town's Little League Thief, reported by Bill Pennington, New York Times, July 20, 2016.
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