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In 2010 an Indiana swim coach named Ken Stopkotte took the brave step of talking on the record with ABC’s 20\/20<\/em> about the decades-old and still mostly unaddressed issue of coach sexual abuse of the underage athletes they supervise.<\/p>\n

This week, in state court in Marion County, attorney Jonathan Little filed a lawsuit on Stopkotte’s behalf against the Hamilton School Corporation and Mel Goldstein, founder and director of YMCA Indy SwimFit, for the retaliation, defamation, and — get this — malicious prosecution Stopkotte endured in return for blowing the whistle on poorly kept secrets.<\/p>\n

The Stopkotte story is straight out of Stalin. In the wake of 20\/20<\/em>, he lost his job and was drummed out of any work in the swimming industry over allegations that he had fudged his athletes’ swimming time sheets. Got that straight? Molest kids — business as usual. Call out your colleagues for denying and covering up the molestation of kids — get blackballed with trumped-up allegations.<\/p>\n

In November of 2010, Stopkotte also was arrested on felony theft charges after Goldstein told police he had stolen swimming pool rent money. Stopkotte spent ten days in a Tennessee jail, including Thanksgiving, awaiting extradition to Indiana. The charges were dropped last year.<\/p>\n

Stopkotte says, “There was no evidence or even an allegation that I used the money for personal use. Nowhere in the official affidavit for probable cause did it state that I personally misused or otherwise used the nearly $17,000 in question for my own personal benefit. Rather, the document refers to me depositing the money into a ‘private account’ for the swim club expenses.”<\/p>\n

Attorney Little adds: “Ken Stopkotte was damaged emotionally and financially by the phony criminal charges. This lawsuit will hold the school district and the YMCA’s Goldstein accountable for a lifetime of shame suffered by the malicious prosecution.”<\/p>\n

And, I would add, the lawsuit offers hope for others who have endured retaliation for doing the right thing and taking on the swimming establishment — as well as for those who now will be emboldened to add their voices, confident that the retaliation tactic is losing its potency.<\/p>\n

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

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