{"id":8960,"date":"2014-04-09T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T00:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=8960"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:03:30","slug":"fort-lauderdale-police-release-2004-special-victims-unit-report-on-alex-pussieldi-first-documented-confirmation-of-allegations-of-sex-with-underage-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=8960","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale Police Release 2004 Special Victims Unit Report on Alex Pussieldi \u2013 First Documented Confirmation of Allegations of Sex With Underage Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nby Irvin Muchnick and Tim Joyce<\/em><\/p>\n

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Just moments after we completed the preceding article<\/a> – about multiple-witness reporting to the Fort Lauderdale police of child sexual abuse allegations against swim coach Alex Pussieldi – we received from the Police Department a copy of the Special Victims Unit file on Pussieldi that we had requested a little over a week ago.<\/p>\n

These new documents can be viewed at http:\/\/muchnick.net\/lauderdalespecialvictims.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most important of the five pages are the final two, which turn out to be less-redacted version of a police record previously provided to us. We are left to guess whether the municipal bureaucracy and lawyers changed their minds and came around to our view that some of the earlier redactions were too extensive – or whether another public servant in the records office simply undertook a new, fresh search for documents and independently came to a different conclusion as to the exemptions claimed under public information law.<\/p>\n

In either event, this new version of a report by Detective Jeff Jennings (whose affiliation with the Special Victims Unit is no longer whited-out) confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Fort Lauderdale Police Department’s knowledge of Alex Pussieldi’s sexual misconduct was extensive, redundant, and verified.<\/p>\n

Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n