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Ex-Olympics gymnastics coach John Geddert dies by suicide hours after being charged: reports
Daily News ^ | 02/25/2021 | Nelson Oliveira

Posted on 02/25/2021 1:44:15 PM PST by sodpoodle

John Geddert, a former USA Gymnastics coach who was charged with sex crimes and human trafficking Thursday, has died by suicide, according to multiple reports.

Geddert, 63, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday afternoon, Michigan state officials told local news station WLNS.

The Attorney General’s Office, which had just announced the charges at a news conference, did not immediately return a request for information.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: geddert; gymnastics; pedosinthegym; predators
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To: LeoTDB69
If he was charged with sex crimes and trafficking today, how did he have a gun?

What would have precluded him from having a firearm?

41 posted on 02/25/2021 2:20:51 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Little Ray

Point taken!! I will withhold judgement for the time being


42 posted on 02/25/2021 2:21:30 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: sodpoodle

Wow I heard sex crimes but not human trafficking. I think that is why Biden and his followers want illegals here in USA.... Sex slaves


43 posted on 02/25/2021 2:21:36 PM PST by buffyt (--Tyrelle.Y.F & Bonquisha.U.F .)
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To: Mr. K

gets her panties in a twist


44 posted on 02/25/2021 2:22:57 PM PST by buffyt (--Tyrelle.Y.F & Bonquisha.U.F .)
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To: sodpoodle

In the case like this, I wonder the reason he killer himself, shame or told to do so by someone else ?


45 posted on 02/25/2021 2:23:37 PM PST by Lee25 ( )
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To: MileHi

Our thoughts exactly. Guilty and didn’t look forward to prison. Perverts are mistreated in prison. Our friends’ only son, only child, went to prison about 20 years ago. DUI - drugs not alcohol. Killed a 14 year old girl and badly injured her 12 year old brother. Jeff was up for parole not long ago, but the girl’s mom helped him Jeff in prison till the end of his sentence. He was a young cute blonde kid. He looks horrible in his prison photo now. Looks so rough. His eyes look sad. I HOPE he can rehab his life and stop the DUI! I think he gets out soon. But prison is not a fun place for perverts or pretty boys.


46 posted on 02/25/2021 2:26:47 PM PST by buffyt (--Tyrelle.Y.F & Bonquisha.U.F .)
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To: Publius

We own many guns. A rifle. A shotgun. A nice array of hand guns. Love beer, but we don’t smoke. We started buying guns in the 1950s before you had to register them. Don’t tell BETO


47 posted on 02/25/2021 2:28:21 PM PST by buffyt (--Tyrelle.Y.F & Bonquisha.U.F .)
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To: sodpoodle

48 posted on 02/25/2021 2:28:33 PM PST by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: lodi90

Yeah. I don’t understand the trafficking charge...he forced them to work against their will? How?


49 posted on 02/25/2021 2:30:06 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: dragnet2

Suicide is not an admission of guilt. In fact he may have derived certain benefits by not being tried. Look at the Aaron Hernandez case. Because he was not tried and found guilty will his record as a Olympic and National coach remain unsullied? Was his record more important than his life? Who knows. Will his estate remain intact? Will his family inherit more this way? Even had he won in court, his legal fees would have crushed him. As I said suicide may have been his best option guilty or not.


50 posted on 02/25/2021 2:32:43 PM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me.)
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To: sodpoodle

Probably guilty given USA Gymnastics culture and the apparent suicide, but given the whole Epstein rabbit hole, I’m open to other theories.


51 posted on 02/25/2021 2:33:35 PM PST by Stravinsky
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To: buffyt
But prison is not a fun place for perverts or pretty boys.

No

52 posted on 02/25/2021 2:40:25 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Phillyred
Yeah. I don’t understand the trafficking charge...he forced them to work against their will? How?

The Michigan AG is a NaziCommie.

The "law" is whatever she says it is in Occupied Michigan.

53 posted on 02/25/2021 2:44:21 PM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: OldGoatCPO

If you are referring to the report that Hernandez’s relatives would get some sort of money from the Patriots or the NFL because suicide voided his conviction and they had to honor his contract, that never happened.


54 posted on 02/25/2021 2:44:25 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: sodpoodle

Epstein didn’t kill himself.


55 posted on 02/25/2021 2:48:03 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Publius
but he’ll show you how to properly care for a firearm.... as he makes sure it's unloaded by looking down the barrel.
56 posted on 02/25/2021 2:48:25 PM PST by LouAvul (The wheels of America are coming off and the media have stolen the lug nuts.)
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To: OldGoatCPO
As I said suicide may have been his best option guilty or not.

Well best option assuming he didn't want to be alive anymore. Conventionally most people would take continuing to live while losing money or having records removed from the record books.

So, even from a purely materialist point-of-view it's an unusual choice.

And if one is a Christian, well the old-school Catholic Church teaching was that suicide was a mortal sin, a grave sin against God's will and would result in spending eternity in Hell. And to back this up suicides were not allowed a full Catholic burial, and some were even not allowed in the Catholic cemetery.

Of course, he may not have had any religious beliefs, or been part of some other religious tradition that is OK with suicide. (Not sure what that would be - perhaps Shinto, but he wasn't Japanese so he can't be Shinto because it's an ethnic religion not open to converts.)

57 posted on 02/25/2021 2:49:14 PM PST by Vlad0
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To: Maudeen

What a way to go through life feeding your evil sinful desires only to have that evil destroy you twice (first death then second death).

I will not mourn for these evil people.


58 posted on 02/25/2021 2:49:49 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: sodpoodle
He killed himself? Why didn't he just run for office as a Democrap where he could have molested girls in public, even on video and he would be protected, praised and even have an election stolen in his favor?


59 posted on 02/25/2021 2:56:47 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Phillyred

Seems like most of these charges are based on the “repressed memories’ of one woman in this Time article. I’m not wishing death on this guy based on what is thinly reported here.

https://time.com/5629228/larry-nassar-victim-speaks-out/


60 posted on 02/25/2021 2:59:22 PM PST by lodi90
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