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36 USA Swimming Coaches Molested Teen Athletes
Newser.com ^ | 4/9/2010 | Nick Mcmaster

Posted on 04/09/2010 2:47:33 PM PDT by GreaterSwiss

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To: BossLady

Good for you. To do nothing is to encourage the perp. I would have done the same thing you did.


21 posted on 04/09/2010 3:02:22 PM PDT by cubreporter (Rush is an American Patriot. He has been blessed with exceptional wisdom. Thank God for Rush!!!)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Wait a minute! I thought the Pope could walk on water!


22 posted on 04/09/2010 3:02:26 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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Wait a minute! I thought the Pope could walk on water!

Even if he could, his detractors would just say, "See, he can't swim!"

23 posted on 04/09/2010 3:03:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: GreaterSwiss

The Secret Service could not protect these people if that was my kid.


24 posted on 04/09/2010 3:03:40 PM PDT by MattinNJ (Yes, they did. Now, what are we going to do about it.)
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To: 999replies

While they too are guilty being in the postion they are in...no doubt about it but....blaming the Catholics is easy. I would love to know just how many “so called upstanding” citizens are equally as guilty.


25 posted on 04/09/2010 3:04:15 PM PDT by cubreporter (Rush is an American Patriot. He has been blessed with exceptional wisdom. Thank God for Rush!!!)
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To: GreaterSwiss

It is why my wife and I have always coached the children while young and always stayed with them while at practice giving them rides to and from events.

This is pretty sad.


26 posted on 04/09/2010 3:05:12 PM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: library user

“All of the swimming coaches ARE Catholic. /sarc”
LOL! Beat me to it.


27 posted on 04/09/2010 3:06:15 PM PDT by texteacher
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To: Tax-chick

Butch Lesbian coaches can’t marry in some states, that’s why they have to molest their young stars.


28 posted on 04/09/2010 3:06:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: a fool in paradise

Oh, duh! *forehead smack*

But seriously, how unsurprising that homosexuals are involved.


29 posted on 04/09/2010 3:07:41 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Espiritu Santo, Espiritu Santo, renueva la faz de la tierra!)
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To: GreaterSwiss

30 posted on 04/09/2010 3:09:36 PM PDT by wvguy (Montani semper liberi)
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To: edcoil

A few years back I took a friend’s daughter to soccer practice so I could get some photos of her for them.

Strangely enough not one person asked what the strange man was doing taking pictures of the preteen girls.


31 posted on 04/09/2010 3:10:37 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: GreaterSwiss

Sickening! We’ve very much been involved with competitive swimming over the period of time mentioned in the article.


32 posted on 04/09/2010 3:13:48 PM PDT by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa.)
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To: GreaterSwiss

I remember some 55 years ago, when was in high school, a number of my friends were on the swimming team and talked about the coach doing weird things to them. Of course I was so innocent I did not understand. The coach was gone the next year.


33 posted on 04/09/2010 3:13:52 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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To: GreaterSwiss

Practicing your strokes...you’re doing it wrong.


34 posted on 04/09/2010 3:15:03 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: GreaterSwiss

Wow. This is astounding. I feel so very sad for these kids and all kids that deal with molestation.


35 posted on 04/09/2010 3:17:04 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: GeronL
Parents need to be so much more cautious these days.

It's just the reverse. In the old days, a coach like that met up with a rope or a shotgun, and the problem disappeared. Today, we're more careful and more understanding, and our kids are far less safe. I'd want to be very sure before I acted on an accusation, but if it happened to my kid there would be no point in a trial.

36 posted on 04/09/2010 3:29:03 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: TChris

:-))


37 posted on 04/09/2010 3:40:05 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: GreaterSwiss

You mean they didn’t transfer them to another school and hide these facts??


38 posted on 04/09/2010 3:41:54 PM PDT by RaceBannon (RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
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To: dfwgator

The New York Times has a story in the works.


39 posted on 04/09/2010 3:44:08 PM PDT by Tribune7 (Only stupid, racists people support Obama.)
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To: library user

Coincidentally perhaps, I once dated a guy who told me that his Catholic high school swim team coach made the boys’ team practice in the nude (ewww . . .). They suspected afterward that he had some unsavory tendencies.


40 posted on 04/09/2010 3:50:05 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
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