Swimming Sex Abuse Expose Killed by Yahoo Sports — Read It Now at MomsTeam.com
Penn State Busted For Enabling, Covering Up Child Molester. Now, What About USA Swimming?
July 23, 2012Washington Post: Prominent Coach Rick Curl Under Investigation For 1983 Relationship With 13-Year-Old Swimmer
July 25, 2012Poisoned Waters
Widespread Sex Abuse of Young Female Swimmers Continues To Plague USA Swimming
With focus on Olympics, critics question whether organization doing enough to prevent abuse
http://www.momsteam.com/poisoned-waters-sex-abuse-by-male-coaches-of-female-swimmers-continues-despite-USA-Swimming-efforts#ixzz21YdxJWRD
As I’ve related previously, Yahoo Sports and its affiliate ThePostGame sent me to the Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha last month to wrap up a long feature on what has happened — and not happened — since ABC’s 20/20, two years ago, exposed the issue of systematic sexual abuse in competitive youth swimming.
In its wisdom, and in something of a “profile in caution,” Yahoo chose not to publish the story I delivered.
I am grateful to MomsTeam.com for stepping in. This superb sports parents’ information site is run by Brooke de Lench, author of The Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins).
Irv Muchnick