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Later this week I’ll be publishing an important breakthrough story in the national swimming sex abuse investigations. In the meantime, another cell of coach molestation has been found in Connecticut — a dateline that needs no elaboration these days.<\/p>\n

Westport’s Connecticut Post<\/em> reports that Jeffrey Schare, the popular swim coach at Staples High School, was arrested yesterday after confessing to sexually assaulting two young girls for more than three years. See http:\/\/www.ctpost.com\/local\/article\/Staples-High-swim-coach-charged-with-sex-assaults-4125248.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Schare also coached at the OMNI club out of Yale University, a USA Swimming affiliate, and was a member of Connecticut Swimming, the national organization’s LSC, or “local swim club” consortium. That information is courtesy of my journalistic colleague Tim Joyce, who — get this — is an alumnus of Staples High School.<\/p>\n

As layer upon layer of the dozens, scores, of examples of the poor oversight of USA Swimming come to light, a three-degrees-of-separation phenomenon kicks in. Just last week, I ran into the mother of one of my daughter’s old Bear Swimming teammates at a local Starbucks. The mom told me of how, a couple of years after Bears coach Jesse Stovall pleaded no contest to the statutory rape of his star swimmer, whom he was chaperoning at a national meet in Florida, the mom moved her son to another program in the East Bay near San Francisco: the Oakland Undercurrents. And then the coach there<\/em>, Ben Sheppard, promptly became awash in abuse charges (see “Oakland Swim Coach Hit With Allegations of Misconduct,” East Bay Express<\/em>, September 7, 2011, http:\/\/www.eastbayexpress.com\/ebx\/oakland-swim-coach-hit-with-allegations-of-misconduct\/Content?oid=2979574<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This is a story without end — until parents do something to end it.<\/p>\n

\nIrv Muchnick<\/em><\/p>\n

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