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The USA Swimming scandal looks like it is gathering momentum.
*** 100s of USA swimmers were sexually abused for decades and the people in charge knew and ignored it, investigation finds :
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/02/16/investigation-usa-swimming-ignored-sexual-abuse-for-decades/
*** Curl-Burke founder Rick Curl faces hearing on former swimmer’s account of underage sexual relationship in 1980s :
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...usa-swimming/2012/07/25/gJQAg78q8W_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...0320f2-c3a5-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html
*** 100s of USA swimmers were sexually abused for decades and the people in charge knew and ignored it, investigation finds :
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/02/16/investigation-usa-swimming-ignored-sexual-abuse-for-decades/
I am familiar with the case regarding Rick Curl & the Curl-Burke Swim Club because Amy Shipley reported about it in the Washington Post, but it looks like it's another breakdown in leadership at the highest levels, just like gymnastics. Likewise in that case, U MD was accused of not properly reporting Curl.For decades the sexual abuse of young athletes by their coaches lingered just beneath the surface in American swimming’s otherwise golden waters. In 2005, USA Swimming president Ron Van Pool decided it was time to bring the issue to the surface. Giving his annual State of Swimming address, Van Pool pushed for a more aggressive approach within the sport to taking on sexual abuse.
“USA Swimming is frightfully behind the curve in this process and there are those who would have us continue to lag,” Van Pool said.
The speech, however, didn’t make much of an impression with Chuck Wielgus, then in his eighth year as USA Swimming’s executive director.
“There was nothing that struck me,” Wielgus said later in deposition.
*** Curl-Burke founder Rick Curl faces hearing on former swimmer’s account of underage sexual relationship in 1980s :
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...usa-swimming/2012/07/25/gJQAg78q8W_story.html
*** Ex-swimming coach Rick Curl gets 7 years in child sex abuse case :Prominent Washington area swimming coach Rick Curl took a leave of absence from the club he founded Wednesday in the wake of accusations that he engaged in a sexual relationship with a teen swimmer and then paid her and her parents to keep quiet as part of a settlement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...0320f2-c3a5-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html
So many similarities & now reckoning day is near for USA Swimming.Former D.C. area swimming coach Rick Curl was sentenced to seven years in prison for child sexual abuse at a hearing Thursday that also featured a revelation from Curl’s attorney that the University of Maryland knew about the abuse more than 25 years ago.
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