[Steely Tom]

I know of two teenage girls who were groomed into a sexual relationship with their gymnastics coaches. Both were outside school situations with coaches hired by their parents to develop what they thought might be Olympic-level talent.

One was a childhood friend of my sister's, and the other was the daughter of a high-school friend.

The high-school friend's daughter has a totally ruined life. She's an alcoholic and drug-addicted, has attempted suicide many times, can't take care of herself, etc. She's in her late thirties. Has no family of her own, depends on her mother for everything. Really bad.

[originalbuckeye]

A friend’s niece became pregnant by her athletic coach.....she was an Olympic hopeful several years ago. She gave up the baby for adoption and is now in college. Good parents, much talent, thrown away by her coach.