Just for clarification, 20-30 years ago at the rinks where I lived, hitting a minor with a foreign object was considered child abuse and investigated. Managers at municipal rinks had to report it when they or rink employees witnessed it or parents witnessed it and complained. I have direct knowledge of at least two incidents with skating parents resulting in court appearances. I don't know where you lived during this time, but it was certainly not considered "normal discipline" in many areas.
Thank you so much for sharing what Todd had to say on the matter at hand. I was going to post that same quote, but you beat me to it.
This isn't the first time that the subject of Todd has been brought up. When Todd's first marriage didn't work out, there were so many insinuations regarding why. I knew about the situation at least a month or so before it finally came out on message boards I was a member of including here at FSU. I didn't post about it because I already knew what was about to hit the fan, and I knew it would be a lot of nasty rumours.
I'll simply come to the point. The insinuations did come out and they were very devious to say the least, and it was merely to spread rumours about Todd being gay. I had never seen so many trolls come out from under the rock where they had been hiding.
It's not surprising or unusual for trolls or anyone for that matter to take cheap shots at the skaters, coaches, etc. that they don't like, and it sometimes comes in the form of jealousy.
I'm so glad that Todd gave his response in the Phil Hersh article because he's right; people will try to come up with something to taint the image of someone who is successful.
Not sure whom you refer to but I have no doubt some say it to wound others up. Others are just scenarios out of contexts. It happens now and will 50 years from now
No. I'm not saying that at all. I'm merely saying that some are quick to jump the gun or jump to conclusions before the actual facts come out. It's been done in the past, and to assume things isn't the same as actual fact. So bringing up Todd because Callaghan was his coach doesn't mean that Todd was abused by him.
Was it really? Even nowadays, corporal punishment at school is still legal in 18 US states. So a coach can’t hit a child at the skating rink, but it is ok the hit the child at school?
News flash: Richard Callaghan was not a school teacher.
Oh, really? Thank you for telling me, because without you I wouldn’t have noticed.
I certainly did not state it was OK to strike a child at school but not at the skating rink or that this ONLY applied to ice rinks.
Likewise when others speak up and say they were abused, maybe Todd didn't know whether they were or not, yet he did make that determination in a public statement.
