Posted on 12/15/2016 8:34:42 AM PST by TigerClaws
A stunning new report out Thursday uncovered an abuse scandal in the world of gymnastics whose scope is shockingly vast.
According to a comprehensive report in the Indianapolis Star, there have been 368 cases of alleged child sexual abuse in gymnastics over the past 20 years. The acts were allegedly committed against gymnasts by coaches, gym owners, and other adults who work in and around the sport.
The report claims that predatory coaches often move from gym to gym, with the new gyms either unaware of or indifferent towards the previous charges.
“It’s just too easy for coaches to keep getting hired and hired and hired,” Nancy Hogshead-Makar — a former Olympic Gold Medal winning swimmer who now chairs an advocacy group called Champion Women — told the Star. “Sexual abuse thrives on the fact that people are embarrassed about the topic, ashamed to talk about it, and they keep quiet about it. And that’s exactly why molesting coaches keep getting hired at the next place. Nobody talks about a coach that is inappropriate with athletes; the coach quietly moves away and gets hired someplace else.”
Marci Hamilton, the CEO of CHILD USA, a research and advocacy group based at the University of Pennsylvania, believes that there may actually be as many as three to five times more victims than the Star reported.
“I’m sad for all the parents and athletes who didn’t have the kind of warning that that number gives you,” Hamilton told the Star. “But my guess is that it’s a pretty severe undercount.”
USA Gymnastics, a leading Olympic organization which presides over the sport, gave a statement to the Star which said:
“Nothing is more important to USA Gymnastics, the Board of Directors and CEO Steve Penny than protecting athletes, which requires sustained vigilance by everyone — coaches, athletes, parents, administrators and officials. We are saddened when any athlete has been harmed in the course of his or her gymnastics career.”
Read the full report here, via the Indianapolis Star.
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We survived our own stupidity.
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If gymnastics coaches were allowed to marry, this would never happen.
So your theory is that everybody is going to have a certain number of orgasms, so just make sure it’s with adults, goats, telephone poles, etc., rather than with kids.
Such an uplifting, humanistic moral theory.
Everybody knows that all sexual abuse is committed by Catholic priests, and the only societal attitudes that enable it to happen are those attitudes that exist in the clerical culture of the Catholic Church. No one but Catholic bishops has ever shuffled abusers from job to job.
I'd ask for an apology, by democrats never apologize.
But then you wind up with a totally depraved and immoral culture.
These are gay coaches molesting young soccer boys.
Maybe in your world. The major defect in your argument is:
It would be pretty dubious that the 50th most influential person in Big Sky, Montana is an unmarried pizza parlor owner.
But in Washington DC..?!
That is freaking impossible.
Or he some unnamed hobby.
British doing what they do best—buggering.
There is a reason that people in Ancient Egypt and Middle Age England married their daughters off young. Solved many problems.
Notice the hippy culture is no longer here ?
LOL
Yes, you are absolutely right. No child can give consent and no child is to blame. It is always an adult, no matter what.
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