usa swimming pulls a penn state... covered up abuse for years

[Ice Cold]

This is messed up... anyone forcing themselves on underage persons deserves to die.
in the Irish scandal a man murdered his wife and child so they wouldn't fine out he had a baby with an underage swimmer and the dude who was facing accusations fled to the USA where he can coach freely?

The Irish situation became so extreme that Frank McCann, who had been the Irish swim team manager at the time the scandal was breaking, was convicted of murdering his wife and child in order to prevent them from discovering he had fathered a child by an*underage swimmer

 

[SoulController]

 

[john goodman]

how about the 16 year old girl that stepped in front of a truck to kill herself?

terrible stuff brehs...

 

[LittleLordBboy]

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

wake me when it's the womens gymnastics

This......I think that sport is full of pedos....

 

[Un-AmericanDreamer]

how about the 16 year old girl that stepped in front of a truck to kill herself?

terrible stuff brehs...

If she didn't want to get hit, she shouldn't have crossed the street in that dress.

 

[Cap. Scarlet]

Sh1t is even worse in Hollywood.

 

[mastermind]

people that volunteer to coach children are pedophiles until proven otherwise...

You're a fukking idiot who has nevER played a sport

 

[feelosofer]

Chris Hansen won

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

Sarah Burt is dead.
An outstanding student and competitive swimmer who became a lifeguard and loved teaching children to swim, her private anguish became too much to bear. So after finally telling her parents of the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her United States Swimming coach, she made a decision. On June 29, 2010 Burt drove her car to a busy intersection in rural Illinois, 20 minutes from Peoria. She parked, got out, and ended her years of torment when she walked into traffic and was hit by a semi-truck. She was 16 years old.
The same year of Burt's death, Andy King, a San Jose swimming coach, was sentenced to 40 years in prison after authorities uncovered a pattern of sexual abuse that lasted three
decades and involved more than a dozen young on the West Coast.
USA Swimming in 2008 had proudly accepted King into its ranks, stating in an acceptance letter, “Congratulations. Your background screening has been thoroughly reviewed and meets the qualification standards set by USA Swimming.” According to
USA Swimming, the organization at the time checked only for criminal convictions and didn’t include background interviews or investigations with local police.
In September 2011, “Jane Doe,” a King victim in San Jose settled her case against USA Swimming. The terms are confidential. Currently there are three pending cases against USA Swimming – Jancy Thompson v. USA Swimming in San Jose, Calif.; and Taflinger v. USA Swimming and Weiss v. USA Swimming, both in Indiana.
There will likely be more lawsuits in the days to come. Just last week the Washington Post published a story about the Washington, DC-area swim coaching legend Richard Curl and his sexual contact with a former swimmer, just 13 years old at the time.
And there are continue to be new cases of sexual abuse by swim coaches around the country, as evidenced by coaches charged with such crimes in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Orange County, California, and Malvern, Pennsylvania.

This is the main point of the article for those who don't wanna read.

 

[THEANGEL&THEGAMBLER]

Not surprising that these people are still in power unfortunately

The current pope was involved in a cover up and hasn't suffered any consequences for it.-->

Richard Milhous Ratzinger - The Daily Dish - The Atlantic

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

The story leads with King..but this Bartleson coach might be more disgusting.

Among the coaches accused of inappropriate sexual behavior is Aaron Bartleson, a former USA Swimming coach who worked with the West Coast Aquatics Swim Club in California. He resigned from that club in 2005 after a co-worker accused him of sexual misconduct. At the time, Bartleson didn’t suffer any repercussions and was allowed to resign quietly.
Bartleson eventually moved to Colorado where he was hired as a coach at Mitchell High School. In 2008, Bartleson applied for membership in a USA Swimming-associated club. After a private investigator reported Bartleson’s past to USA Swimming, it decided not to allow Bartleson to coach. In 2009, Wielgus under advisement from law firm HRO (now Bryan Cave, LLC), entered into a confidential agreement with Bartleson forbidding him to coach at a USA Swimming club.
It was not the first time Wielgus brokered a deal to save face. Former USA Swimming National Team Director Everett Uchiyama was accused of sexual misconduct in January 2006 but he, too, was allowed to resign without explanation. Further, Hogan, the
managing director of club management for USA Swimming, was likely aware of the deal and the misconduct, but gave Uchiyama a positive reference when he applied for a job at a Colorado Springs country club. And Uchiyama's wife Helen worked for Hogan at the time.
When the Penn State story first broke, many made the analogy between the university and the Catholic church for the way it concealed the sinister doings within its hallowed walls. In reality, the USA Swimming abuse scandals are more similar to the Catholic church, as the scope and breadth of the swimming scandal far exceeds that of Penn State.

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

Abridged version:

Writing for WBAL, Tim Joyce asserts that USA Swimming may have a sexual abuse coverup scandal on par with Penn State. ABC News ran reports of sexual misconduct in USA Swimming in 2010. The article suggests USA Swimming President Chuck Wielgus covered up multiple incidents of sexual abuse and may have perjured himself in cases involving three different coaches.

Andy King, a swimming coach in San Jose, was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2010 after it emerged he had sexually abused multiple teenage girls over three decades. USA Swimming had a background check of King (looking only at legal convictions) come back clean in 2008. According to Joyce, USA Swimming settled one King-related lawsuit in 2011 and has three more pending.

An attorney conducting the lawsuits, Robert Allard, contrary to Wielgus’ statement USA Swimming had no suspicions of King until he was arrested in 2010, asserts Wielgus had “thwarted any investigation of King” by keeping a swimmer’s complaint confidential in 2002.

Joyce claims Wielgus struck at least two private deals with coaches accused of sexual misconduct. Everett Uchiyama, a former USA Swimming National Team Director, was accused of sexual abusing an underage girl. He was allowed to resign in January 2006. He later obtained employment at a Colorado Springs country club with a positive reference from USA Swimming.

Aaron Bartleson resigned from a USA Swimming coach position amidst allegations of sexual misconduct in 2005. When he reapplied for membership at another club in 2008 and knowledge of the 2005 incident became known, USA Swimming “entered into a confidential agreement” that would keep him from coaching. A list of banned coaches released by USA Swimming after the ABC News report in 2010 lists Uchiyama under “Inappropriate Sexual Behavior” and Bartleson under “Not Listed.”

According to Allard, Wielgus may have perjured himself under oath when he claimed no knowledge of three coaches who engaged in “sexually deviant behavior.”

On each occasion, Mr. Wielgus denied possessing such knowledge. Based upon the information that we have gathered, Chuck Wielgus and/or USA Swimming had extensive knowledge on each of these matters. In two of them, Mr. Wielgus was intimately involved and in fact provided direction as to how the matters were to be internally handled.

Joyce credits his information to “an exhaustive, seven-months long” investigation with “first-hand interviews” and “reliable and knowledgeable sources.”

via: http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php...exual-abuse-coverup-comparable-to-penn-state/

 

[Still Benefited]

wake me when it's the womens gymnastics

That shyt been infested with pedophiles....I tried to tell nikkas any sporting activity involving kids is infested with pedophiles,the movie industry,music industry,modeling....anything where u can get sum fame or success hungry parent to leave they kid alone with you...and of course the churches and schools. Which traditionally are positions u trust...hide ya kids y'all....my daughter won't be involved in none of that shyt without me their...won't be spending the nights at slumber parties without me their...it be perverted uncles waiting in the wings sumtimes

 

[bangbreh]

then you better off not havin a daughter
and if you do, never let her leave the house.