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Jets legend Joe Namath accused of allowing child sex abuse at football camp: ‘From hero to zero’
NY Post ^ | 19/11/23 | Carl Campanile

Posted on 11/20/2023 1:37:48 PM PST by Eleutheria5

Jets legend Joe Namath is akin to disgraced Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, covering up sexual abuse at his facility, according to court papers filed by a man who says he was assaulted there 51 years ago.

Philip Lyle Smith, 64, recently told The Post about his horrific ordeal at a Joe Namath Instructional Football Camp, speaking publicly for the first time about claims he detailed as “John Doe’’ in an ongoing Brooklyn lawsuit.

Smith said his alleged sexual predator was well-known Brooklyn Poly Prep Country Club football coach Philip Foglietta, later revealed to be a serial pedophile who abused scores of students at the tony school.

Foglietta, who died in 1998, was allegedly allowed to repeatedly sexually attack Smith at the camp starting when the boy was just 12, said the married Florida real-estate broker in court papers — claiming to The Post that Namath and other lawsuit defendants were “enablers and the pedophile protectors.”

“Back in those days, Joe Namath was my idol,’’ Smith told The Post. “And he went from my hero to a zero in my life.’’

Smith alleged that Namath’s negligence is analogous to that of the late Paterno, who was accused of knowing that trusted assistant Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused young boys.

“This case is equally about the many adults in positions of power at the [camp] including Joe Namath and [ex-Jets defensive back and camp partner John] Dockery, who were aware of, tolerated and covered up known sexual abuse at the camp, abuse that had a lasting effect on Doe,’’ according to allegations in amended court papers filed in 2021.

Smith’s lawsuit claims that while Foglietta groomed and abused him, he received special perks at the camp, including involving the Jets Hall of Famer.

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TOPICS: History; Society; Sports; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 1972; 51yearsago; children; evil; football; jets; joenamath; legends; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkjets; philiplylesmith; qtardnonsense
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To: atc23

They were both legendary athletes, who were accused of heinous crimes. The shoe fits.


81 posted on 11/21/2023 11:11:15 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: NautiNurse

Get your eyes checked, and stop looking at man boobs.

“This case is equally about the many adults in positions of power at the [camp] including Joe Namath and [ex-Jets defensive back and camp partner John] Dockery, who were aware of, tolerated and covered up known sexual abuse...”

“and covered up known sexual abuse”

“and covered up”


82 posted on 11/21/2023 11:16:42 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5
Get your eyes checked, and stop looking at man boobs.

Those are man boobs. Get used to it.

This man is pimping his digs. Get used to it.


83 posted on 11/21/2023 11:55:35 AM PST by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NautiNurse

Irrelevant. You ignore a direct quote from the article you claim to have read.


84 posted on 11/21/2023 2:02:36 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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