{"id":5854,"date":"2012-08-08T10:16:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T18:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:03:36","slug":"abuse-of-girl-swimmers-by-their-coaches-is-not-job-site-sexual-harassment-requiring-sensitivity-training-it-is-rape-requiring-criminal-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=5854","title":{"rendered":"Abuse of Girl Swimmers by Their Coaches Is Not Job-Site Sexual Harassment, Requiring \u2018Sensitivity Training.\u2019 It Is Rape, Requiring Criminal Prosecution."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<html><body><\/p>\n<p>Readers will recall that I got involved with the USA Swimming coach sex abuse scandal through an incident on my own daughter&#8217;s team &#8211; the statutory rape of one of his swimmers by a coach named Jesse Stovall. See:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Whatever Happened to the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal?&#8221;, March 30, 2012, <a href=\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=5447\">https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=5447<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Swimming in Sex Abuse&#8221; by Kathleen Richards, <em>East Bay Express<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastbayexpress.com\/ebx\/swimming-in-sex-abuse\/Content?oid=1678180\">http:\/\/www.eastbayexpress.com\/ebx\/swimming-in-sex-abuse\/Content?oid=1678180<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Former Berkeley Coach Accepts Plea Agreement&#8221; by Kathleen Richards, <em>East Bay Express<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastbayexpress.com\/92510\/archives\/2010\/04\/30\/former-berkeley-swim-coach-accepts-plea-agreement\">http:\/\/www.eastbayexpress.com\/92510\/archives\/2010\/04\/30\/former-berkeley-swim-coach-accepts-plea-agreement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a remarkable email to me in the course of my initial inquiries in 2009, Joe Woo, then the general chair of our regional governing board, Pacific Swimming, wrote, &#8220;In light of the recent events involving not one but two coaches being arrested within our LSC [Local Swim Committee], I believe there ought to be some sensitivity training provided to the coaches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I responded in part, &#8220;The criminal and moral allegations against Jesse Stovall have nothing to do with &#8216;sensitivity training&#8217;; he wasnot the victim swimmer&#8217;s employer or co-worker, and this was not sexual harassment. 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