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by Irvin Muchnick<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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The U.S. Center for Safe Sport \u2013 tasked with disciplining sexually abusive coaches in the Olympic sports \u2013 this week named a new chief executive officer. She is Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, a gold medalist sprinter at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the center\u2019s media relations, I asked the CEO this: \u201c<\/strong><\/span>What is your position on the recommendation of the Congressional commission on the future of the USOPC, whose report proposed that the U.S. Center for SafeSport be turned into a federally funded agency in order to establish its independence and to correct what the commission report found to be the failure of its early history?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hilary Nemchik, Safe Sport\u2019s vice president for external affairs, emailed back: \u201c<\/span>Benita formally starts her role on Feb 1. We welcome you to follow up after that date.\u201d Nemchik didn\u2019t respond to a request to forward the query now or to provide a direct email address.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Concussion Inc. readers know, the Safe Sport center has been a bad joke on America\u2019s families ever since its walk-up in 2017 and formal enabling by Congress the next year in the midst of the blow-up of the USA Gymnastics scandals. The founding chief executive, Shellie Pfohl, quit in the middle of her three-year contract. Pfohl\u2019s successor <\/span>Ju\u2019Riese Col\u00f3n was fired last April. The last straw for Col\u00f3n was the arrest three months earlier of a Safe Sport investigator, Jason Krasley <\/span>for rape, sexual assault, and involuntary sexual servitude for allegations dating back to his time as a police officer in Pennsylvania. A just-released Safe Sport audit of Krasley\u2019s cases at the center has triggered the reopening of three of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Major media coverage of the multitudinous disgraces of Safe Sport always gravitates to these sensational anecdotes. The fact of the matter, however, is that the agency has been, from the jump, routinely, intrinsically corrupt and useless beyond description.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2018, Sarah Ehekircher<\/a> (who recently settled in court with USA Swimming over her four-decade-old tale of grooming and rape by coach Scott MacFarland) was tricked into a double-teaming, aggressively cross-examining intake interview, in violation of all best practices for handling of abuse claims, by investigator Kathleen Smith and her last-minute henchman Michael Henry \u2013 who either did or didn’t hold the title of Safe Sport\u2019s \u201cdirector of legal affairs.\u201d<\/a> Henry went on to fall upward and become \u201cnational integrity officer\u201d for the federal judiciary.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Safe Sport PR flack, Dan Hill, is a con man<\/a> who fabricated a phone conversation with me that never happened. Hill has boasted publicly that he works pro bono for the center, even though IRS nonprofit filings show his company has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two years ago, the congressional Commission on the Future of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee said Safe Sport must not be allowed to continue to fail. The commission, consisting of both sports law experts and iconic Olympic athletes such as hurdler Edwin Moses and swimmer Nancy Hogshead, recommended federal funding of the center as a truly independent entity, to divorce it from the funding and influence of the USOPC and its national sport governing bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>New York Times <\/span><\/i>has never even reported the issuance of the commission\u2019s report, which was years in the making. The key figures in the commission\u2019s legislative authorization, such as Senators Maria Cantwell of Washington State and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut<\/a>, have yet to do the first thing toward implementing the report\u2019s proposals in this and other areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see what new CEO <\/span>Benita Fitzgerald Mosley has to say when she saddles up next month.<\/span><\/p>\n

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