The purpose of these articles, is to show the importance of Creating Safer Havens. Our intent in sharing these cases is to bring an awareness of the 'Secret Sins' that are going on around us daily. These are only a few of the many thousands of cases occurring within the church and places where children are supposed to be kept safe. Let's not be fooled into thinking these types of acts are limited to churches and after school programs. In this fast-paced world we live in, these 'Secret Sins' are happening everywhere. As you will see below, children are being violated by pastors, therapists, music directors, volunteer workers, school teachers, coaches, and sadly, the list goes on. Our hopes at Creating Safer Havens is that the seriousness of this problem will no longer be overlooked, and the importance of protecting our children will become top priority.
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Coaches Cases |
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AZ, Surprise - 1/6/2012
Teacher accused of abusing child |
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Marcos Cantu, a former math teacher and high school wrestling
coach, has been charged with one count of sexual abuse and one
count of attempted child molestation. He is to go to trial this
month.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office accuses the 39-year-old
teacher in Surprise of molesting a young girl. Sheriff’s deputies
arrested Cantu last January. Cantu worked for four years at Valley
Vista High School.
A news release from the Sheriff’s Office said Cantu fondled the
victim while he was driving her home from her school.
Cantu previously worked as a teacher at Peoria and Sunrise
Mountain high schools, according to the Sheriff’s Office. |
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AZ, Surprise - 1/6/2012
Trial set for former umpire |
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Edward Lee Hartley, a 67-year-old former high school softball
umpire from Surprise, was indicted on 15 counts stemming from
allegations that he sexually abused runaway girls he picked up at a Phoenix bus stop in August. He was arrested at his Surprise
home in September.
Jerry Cobb, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney’s
Office, said the charges include kidnapping, sexual conduct with
a minor, molestation, prostitution with a minor and public sexual
indecency. Hartley is to go to trial in February.
Authorities had said Hartley’s criminal history dates to 1973
and includes six sex-crime violations, including rape. They
believe he has records in New York, Texas, Kentucky and
Alabama.
News of Hartley’s arrest and background stunned high school
sports officials, parents and state lawmakers.
State Rep. Jack Harper, whose district covers parts of the Deer
Valley and Dysart school districts, threatened Arizona
Interscholastic Association officials with a subpeona if they did not
turn over records of all of the games Hartley officiated. They did
in November and Harper made the information public through an
e-mail. The AIA is the governing body of high school sports in the
state.
The case also prompted sports officials to toughen their
background screening. Starting in July, all officials will be
required to submit fingerprints, which will be compared with
those in an FBI sex-offenders database. School districts already
require fingerprinting of teachers. |
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N.Y., Dannemora - 12/16/2011
Prison Inmate claims Coach Fine had Molested him |
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A 56-year-old New York prison inmate says former Syracuse
University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine began
molesting him more than 40 years ago and continued to have
sexual contact with hin into adulthood.
Floyd Van Hooser told the Associated Press during a prison
interview that Fine began sexually abusing him when Van Hooser
was 14 years old.
Van Hooser is the fourth man to accuse Fine of sexual abuse. He
initially made his allegations to the Post Standard of Syracuse.
Fine was fired Nov. 27 after three men said he molested them when
they were boys. Fine has denied wrongdoing and has not been
charged. A federal investigation is ongoing. |
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Indiana, Highland - 12/14/2011
Indiana Teacher Accused of Molesting
Special Education Students |
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An Indiana teacher is facing six felony charges after allegedly
having relationships with three female students, two of which were
enrolled in special education classes.
Samuel Fies, 33, was arrested Tuesday and charged with multiple
counts of sexual misconduct with a minor, child molestation,
criminal confinement, child solicitation and attempted child
seduction, the Associated Press reports. Fies allegedly developed
a relationship with a female student at Highland High School,
where he was most recently employed as a teacher, in 2009, when
the girl was in seventh grade and under age 14.
According to the affidavit, Fies made the girl sit at the front of
his seventh-grade social studies classroom and often found
excuses to rub up against her, the Indiana Post-Tribune reports.
Fies is accused of molesting her on at least two occasions, one of
which occurred while she was locked in an athletic office. Fies
served as a coach of the track and cross country team before he
was fired in late November on the grounds of misconduct.
Fies reportedly contacted a second student, 13, through a MySpace
account and text messages, asking her to do sexually explicit things
and send him photos, the Northwest Indiana Times reports. The
student told police after a phone conversation that the man she met
online sounded like her social studies teacher.
The third alleged victim, a 17-year-old student at Highland High
School with emotional and learning disabilities, reported that she
met a man on a dating site who asked her sexually-charged
questions under a screen name police traced to Fies, according to
the Times.
Fies faces a maximum 20-year prison sentence, the Post-Tribune
reports. He is awaiting trial in Lake County Jail. |
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TN, Memphis -12/10/2011
Accused of Sexual Abuse, Ex-AAU Leader
Said to Keep Bags of Boys Underwear
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The ex-leader of the AAU accused of molesting young boys years
ago is said to have snuck into the rooms of former underage
basketball players at night to fondle them.He is also accused of
keeping bags of boys' underwear with names and dates on them.
The Memphis police are investigating the claims and the ex-AAU
leader has left his job, citing health concerns.
"The Memphis Police Department takes allegations of child sexual
abuse very seriously," Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong
said, according to CBS News. "Although this case has its
challenges due to the amount of time that has passed, it will be
thoroughly examined; and if the investigation reveals the law was
violated, the person responsible will be held accountable."
A report from ESPN said two men have accused former AAU
president and CEO Robert "Bobby" Dodd of molesting them as
children. The men said they approached Dodd independently about
the matter after the Penn State scandal broke in November
involving former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky. Since that time,
allegations have also surfaced that former assistant Syracuse coach
Bernie Fine molested children, including a team ball boy.
Among the allegations against Dodd:
--Dodd kept hundreds of photos of other players clothed backsides
and crotches in filing cabinets.
--Dodd had bags filled with pairs of teenage boys' underwear and
kept names and dates on them.
--Dodd kept samples of boys' hair.
--West said Dodd once tried to pay him $1,000 to let him perform
oral sex while the player was blindfolded and bound.
--The unidentified player believes Dodd abused him while passed
out after serving him alcohol and a drug to make him unconscious.
West said he contacted the AAU via email on Nov. 9 alleging that
Dodd was a pedophile by that nobody followed up, according to
ESPN.
The AAU said late Friday it is investigating the claims that date
from the 1980s. One of the former players who claims abuse is
43-year-old Ralph West, who told ESPN's "Outside the Lines" that
he was sexually assaulted in Memphis in 1984. West reportedly
now lives in Miami. Another unidentified man also claims that he
was abused by Dodd. He spoke with ESPN "on the condition of
anonymity," according to The Associated Press, explaining that he
called Dodd on Nov. 11. He said Dodd apologized for the abuse.
The two men allege that the abuse from Dodd occurred between
the ages of 12 and 16. They were basketball players for
Memphis-based AAU teams headed by Dodd at the time. The men
allege Dodd "fondled them and masturbated in front of them while
they were in their teens. Neither man reported the abuse to the
police," according to The New York Daily News.
ESPN reported that West accuses Dodd of fondling him, and said
Dodd tried to fondle him or masturbated in front of him at Dodd's
home in Memphis, the AAU Junior Olympics in South Bend, Ind.,
and tournaments in Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee, according
to the AP. ESPN said West alleges that Dodd abused him or tried
to abuse him roughly six times between 1983 and 1985 by
sneaking into his room "in the middle of the night and you don't
hear anything ... and he's trying to reach his hand in your
underwear, basically."
Dodd led the AAU, or Amateur Athletic Union, since 1992 but
reportedly retired just recently, on Nov. 29. An ESPN reporter
contacted Dodd's assistant, who sent an email saying that Dodd has
cancer and had recently retired for health reasons, ESPN said. But
Dodd's departure was apparently abrupt, as other AAU officials
contacted seemed unaware that Dodd has left the organization.
"That's the first I've heard of any of it," national chairwoman for
the AAU athletics executive committee Robin Brown-Beamon told
ESPN regarding the allegations.
Acting AAU president Louis Stout said in a statement released late
Friday that Dodd has colon cancer and is permanently out of his
former position as the organization's president and executive
director.
"The AAU has recently been made aware of some serious
allegations about President Robert W. 'Bobby' Dodd, dating back
several decades," the statement said. "The AAU has opened an
independent investigation into these matters and also has contacted
local law enforcement in Memphis, where the activities allegedly
occurred. We will actively cooperate with any and all authorities
to determine the facts and the truth." |
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Winnipeg, Manitoba - 12/7/2011
Ex-Hockey Coach Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault
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Former junior hockey coach and convicted sex offender Graham
James has pleaded guilty to sexual assaults involving two of his
former players, including NHL star Theoren Fleury. The move
marks another chapter in what has become one of Canadian
hockey's darkest stories.
James entered the plea in a Winnipeg courtroom Wednesday via
video link from Montreal. The disgraced coach was originally
facing nine charges of sexual assault involving three players
spanning 1979 to 1994, but only pleaded guilty to charges
involving two. The names of the two other players are protected
under a court-ordered publication ban.
James, who has been out on bail for almost a year and living in
Montreal, will appear in Winnipeg in February to be sentenced.
He has already served a 3 1/2-year prison sentence for abusing
other former players he coached, including former NHL player
Sheldon Kennedy.
The most recent charges came after Fleury published an
autobiography in which he described the abuse he suffered.
In the book "Playing With Fire" the former Calgary Flames star
told of how James recruited him at 13 to play in Winnipeg and then
in Moose Jaw. He said James would visit and abuse him on the
road — fondling him or performing oral sex. James obtained
Fleury's silence by threatening the youngster's dream of one
day playing in the NHL.
Fleury detailed how James took him and Kennedy to Disneyland,
where he said James would take turns molesting them in motel
rooms. James pleaded guilty to the charges involving Kennedy in
1997, but Fleury stayed silent until 2009.
The agreed statement of facts read out in the Winnipeg courtroom
by Crown Colleen McDuff said James's abuse of Fleury started in
September 1983 and lasted until August 1985. The statement said
the encounters began with James fondling Fleury while he slept
and escalated to the coach performing oral sex. The statement
indicated it was much the same with the second victim. Those
attacks took place between 1989 and 1994.
At a news conference in Calgary, Fleury criticized the justice
system for how it handled the James case. "Graham James pled
guilty years ago, and then he was granted a pardon, after he was
found in Mexico and brought back to Canada on these charges," he
said. "He was given bail ... this is what the mighty Canadian justice
system allowed a previously convicted child rapist to do."
Fleury said a convicted pedophile like James doesn't change.
"I believe what people show me — he showed me he was and is a
rapist. There is no changing a monster like that."
He criticized the fact James remains on bail and suggested he
should serve a lengthy sentence. "It took me 27 years to get
comfortable in my own skin," Fleury said. "To me, that's a pretty
decent sentence."
Both Kennedy and Fleury spiraled downward as adults despite
their professional success on the ice. They were both divorced, and
both abused drugs and alcohol. Fleury said the sexual abuse in his
teen years transformed him from a confused young man into an
angry, self-loathing boozer who blew millions on cards, drugs and
lap dancers.
Both have become outspoken advocates for abuse victims.
Fleury said he has no plans to attend James' sentencing. "I would
rather be in a room full of survivors and victims." |
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PA, State College - 12/7/2011
Ex-Penn State Coach Arrested On New Abuse Charges
- UPDATE of 11/10/2011 article |
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Ex-Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested and arraigned
Wednesday on new sex abuse charges brought by two new
accusers, the state attorney general's office said. The charges were
brought after new accusers were questioned by a grand jury
following Sandusky's arrest last month. One alleged victim claims
he was assaulted after meeting Sandusky in 1997 and the other
claims he was assaulted in 2004.
Sandusky was already charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse
involving eight young boys over a 15-year span. He has denied
being a pedophile and has vowed to fight the case. In interviews
with NBC and The New York Times, he has said he showered and
horsed around with boys but never sexually abused them.
Like some of the other victims, the two new ones, dubbed Victims
9 and 10 by prosecutors, allegedly met Sandusky through The
Second Mile charity, which he founded in 1977.
"As in many of the other cases identified to date, the contact with
Sandusky allegedly fit a pattern of 'grooming' victims," Attorney
General Linda Kelly said in a statement. "Beginning with outings
to football games and gifts; they later included physical contact
that escalated to sexual assaults."
One of the new alleged victims, dubbed Victim 9 by prosecutors,
claims he was first assaulted in 2004, and the other, called Victim
10, told the grand jury he was assaulted after being referred to
Second Mile in 1997. The ninth accuser, currently 18, was 11 or
12 when he first met Sandusky in 2004. Sandusky took him to Penn
State football games and gave him gifts and money, and later
sexually assaulted him during overnight stays in a basement
bedroom in Sandusky's home, the grand jury said.
The accuser said that Sandusky forced the boy to perform oral sex
and attempted on at least 16 occasions to anally penetrate him,
sometimes successfully. "The victim testified that on at least one
occasion he screamed for help, knowing that Sandusky's wife was
upstairs, but no one ever came to help him," the grand jury report
said.
The 10th accuser told the grand jury he was referred to The Second
Mile in 1997, when he was 10 and experiencing problems at home.
He also attended Penn State games, spent time at Sandusky's
house, and was subjected to "wrestling sessions" in the basement
of the home that led to Sandusky performing oral sex on the boy,
authorities said. The accuser also detailed incidents at a pool on the
Penn State campus, and a time when Sandusky allegedly exposed
himself in a car and requested oral sex from the boy.
He was arrested by state police and agents of the Attorney
General's Office, and had a preliminary arraignment before Senior
Magisterial District Judge Robert E. Scott of Westmoreland
County. A preliminary hearing on the charges is set for Tuesday,
the same day his previous case is set for a hearing.
Sandusky had been charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse
involving eight young boys over a 15-year span. |
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New York, Brooklyn - 12/6/2011
Brooklyn's Poly Prep Covered Up Football Coach's
Sex Abuse: Lawsuit |
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In a federal lawsuit, nine men say they were abused by former
football coach Phil Foglietta from 1966 until the early 1980s.
Brooklyn’s Poly Prep Country Day School is coming under fire for
its alleged four-decade cover-up of “prolonged and horrific sexual
abuse of many of its sons” by its late iconic football coach, Phil
Foglietta.
In a federal lawsuit, nine men say they were abused by Foglietta
from 1966 until the early 1980s, the Daily News reports. The suit
alleges Poly Prep received complaints about Foglietta shortly
after he was hired, but did not take action against him because
of his coaching success and fundraising prowess for the highly
respected 157-year-old school.
Foglietta might have abused dozens or even hundreds of boys,
according to the suit, but top school officials allegedly ignored
complaints or threatened to discipline or expel students who
reported they were abused.
The plaintiffs are seeking at least $20 million each in
compensatory and punitive damages. One of them is David
Hiltbrand, 57, who told the News about an episode in the coaches’
locker room shower when he said Foglietta rubbed his shoulders
and put his hand between his legs. Hiltbrand jumped away and into
scalding water, then saw the coach groping other boys, he said.
“It was so terrifying,” Hiltbrand told the paper. “It made me feel
like I had done something wrong. I come from a Roman Catholic
family and I just knew I was going to hell.”
Foglietta was Poly Prep’s football coach and a physical
education instructor for students between 5th and 12th grades
from 1966 until 1991. The school did not renew his contract. He
died in 1998. The lawsuit was filed two years ago. School lawyers
have filed to dismiss it.
“It would not be appropriate to comment upon specific allegations
now pending in a federal court,” Headmaster David Harman said
in a statement to the News. “The school believes that a lawsuit
seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages based on conduct
that took place largely in the 1960s and 1970s is not actionable.”
Herman is a defendant in the suit, along with former headmaster
William M. Williams, the school, and various members of its board
of trustees.
The case echoes the recent coaching abuse scandals at Penn
State and Syracuse University, but Poly Prep officials rejected
such comparisons, according to the News.
The iconic coach is not mentioned on the school’s website. |
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Tennessee, Chattanooga - 12/5/2011
Alleged Molestation Victims Speak out about their
molestation experience by former teacher and coach |
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On the heels of two well-publicized national cases of child
sexual abuse by coaches, some local men who say they were
victims of alleged abuse by a coach are speaking out.
The men told NewsChannel 9 the abuse started while they were at
Ooltewah Middle School in the 1980's. They're grown now and
speaking out, hoping their story will help others find the courage
to come forward as well.
"It's something that we dealt with in 6, 7, and 8 grade. Again, it's
something that's come out with Syracuse and Penn State," Andy
Ellington, who says he was molested, told us.
In fact, Ellington denied the abuse at first too. "I didn't want people
to know. I definitely didn't want anyone to know at Ooltewah. I
didn't want my mother to know. My mother was a single mom. My
father died when I was 7. So this was something I did not want her
to have to deal with," he said.
He says he was just 11 years old the first time anything happened
and says he lost count of how many times he was allegedly
molested by Stan Evans, a former teacher and coach at
Ooltewah Middle School. Evans was close with many of his
athletes and Ellington says he and others frequently spent the night
at his home.
"The majority of the time, the real, if you were to call it fondling
and things like that, was always off school premises. But I can't
even imagine how many conduct unbecoming on school premises
there were," Ellington said, recalling those difficult memories.
Michael Mercer says he's one of Evan's victims, too. He didn't want
to speak on camera but explained to WGOW today, how the abuse
started with Evans rubbing his shoulders.
"So then it goes from rubbing the shoulders, to a kiss on the
forehead. Then it goes from a kiss on the forehead, to lets see how
fast you can get undressed. Then lets pop your naked bottom,"
Mercer said.
Mercer and Ellington, along with two other men, filed a
lawsuit against Evans in 1999 claiming they were molested on
multiple occasions. However, the statute of limitations was up
and Evans abruptly resigned from OMS and moved to Florida.
Since then, they've been trying to heal and both hope their story
can spare other kids the same experience.
"I do hope that the Hamilton County Board of Education will have
an opportunity to have some kind of a standard operation
procedure in place, to where if they do have these issues, it'll be
taken care of without being swept under the rug. I can assure you
in '98 it was," Ellington said. Ellington says he feels like he's
healed from this mostly thanks to family and his church.
But he says, even with that, he still doesn't have closure with
Coach Evans and he hopes hearing his story will help someone
who's been through a similar situation. We tried to contact Evans
to get his side of the story, but were unable to find any contact
information for him. |
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New York, Syracuse - 11/18/2011
Assistant Coach Bernie Fine Under investigation
for Child Sexual Abuse |
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Longtime Syracuse University assistant coach Bernie Fine is the
subject of a police investigation into allegations that he molested
a team ball boy for more than a dozen years, starting in the
mid-1980s, according to an ESPN report. The alleged victim,
Bobby Davis, told ESPN that Fine began molesting him in 1983
just before Davis entered seventh grade. According to the report,
Davis says the abuse happened at Fine’s home, Syracuse basketball
facilities and on road trips, including the 1987 Final Four. Davis
spent six years as Syracuse’s ball boy. Fine is in his 35th season as
a Syracuse assistant to Jim Boeheim. He has been placed on
administrative leave.
Davis, now 39, says the abuse continued until he was 27 and
reported the abuse to Syracuse police in 2003, but detectives told
him the statute of limitations had expired and they would not
investigate. ESPN investigated the story in 2003, but decided not
to run the story because Davis was the only person willing to talk.
The Syracuse Post-Standard also investigated the allegations in
2003. The news is emerging now because another alleged victim
says he was sexually abused by Fine and is coming forward now
because of news coverage of the Jerry Sandusky sexual-abuse
scandal at Penn State, according to ESPN’s story.
According to the New York Penal Code, there is no statute of
limitations “for prosecuting first-degree rape, first-degree criminal
sexual act, or first-degree course of sexual conduct against a
child,” but the statute of limitations “for other sexual offenses
committed against a child under age 18 is five years after the
victim reaches age 18, or the offense is reported to a law
enforcement agency or statewide central register of child abuse and
maltreatment, whichever is earlier.”
Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim released a statement in support
of Fine: ''This matter was fully investigated by the University in
2005 and it was determined that the allegations were unfounded.
I have known Bernie Fine for more than 40 years. I have never
seen or witnessed anything to suggest that he would [have] been
involved in any of the activities alleged. Had I seen or suspected
anything, I would have taken action. Bernie has my full support.''
In a statement by Syracuse University: “We understand that the
Syracuse City Police has now reopened the case, and Syracuse
University will cooperate fully. We are steadfastly committed to
ensuring that SU remains a safe place for every student”. |
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PA, Harrisburg - 11/10/2011
Paterno and President Fired in Penn State
Child Sexual Abuse Scandal
- UPDATE of 11/9/2011 article |
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Famed U.S. college football coach Joe Paterno and Grahm Spanier,
the president of Penn State University, were fired on Wed. in
fallout from a child-abuse scandal and cover-up involving a former
assistant coach and school officials. The move by the university’s
board of trustees thwarted an attempt by Paterno, 84 and one of the
most iconic names in American sports, to leave the team on his
own terms. It triggered protests on campus from students.
Penn State, its football program and Paterno were thrown into
turmoil on Saturday when charges were filed against long-time
assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. Sandusky, 67, is accused of
sexually abusing at least eight boys over more than a decade.
Assistant Coach, Mike McQueary, had reported to Paterno seeing
Sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy in the Penn State
showers. Paterno notified the athletic director, Tim Curley, and a
vice-president, Gary Schultz, who in turn notified Spanier.
Curley and Schultz have been charged with failing to report the
incident to authorities. Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda
Kelly has not ruled out charges against Spanier. Paterno is not a
target of the criminal investigation, but the state police
commissioner called his failure to contact police himself a lapse in
“moral responsibility”.
Effective immediately, Doctor (Graham) Spanier is no longer
president of the university," John Surma, vice chairman of trustees,
told a news conference. "Joe Paterno is no longer the head football
coach, effective immediately. These decisions were made after
careful deliberations," said Surma. "We don't yet know all the facts
and there are many details that are yet to be worked out." The
trustees will appoint a committee to investigate the
“circumstances” that resulted in the indictment of Sandusky and of
Curley and Schultz. The committee will be appointed Friday at the
board’s regular meeting, which Gov. Tom Corbett said he plans to
attend, and will examine “what failures occurred and who is
responsible and what measures are necessary to ensure that similar
mistakes aren’t made in the future”.
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Education said it has
launched an investigation into the conduct at Penn State, which
must disclose criminal offenses committed on campus each year.
"If these allegations of sexual abuse are true then this is a horrible
tragedy for those young boys," Education Secretary Arne Duncan
said in a statement. "If it turns out that some people at the school
knew of the abuse and did nothing or covered it up, that makes it
even worse." |
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Pennsylvania, Harrisburg - 11/9/2011
Penn State Coach Paterno to Retire Amid Scandal
- UPDATE of 11/7/2011 article |
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Legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno says he’s retiring
at the end of this season, this in the wake of a child abuse scandal
involving his longtime assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
Paterno has been questioned about how he acted when a graduate
assistant, Mike McQueary, reported the incident to him in 2002.
Paterno notified Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and vice
president Gary Schultz. Curley and Schultz have since been
charged with failing to report the incident to the authorities.
Paterno hasn't been accused of legal wrongdoing. But he has been
assailed, in what the state police commissioner called a lapse of
"moral responsibility," for not doing more to stop Sandusky, whose
lawyer says he is innocent.
The coach defended his decision to take the news to the athletic
director. Paterno said it was obvious that the graduate student,
since identified as McQueary, was "distraught," but said he was
not told about the "very specific actions" in the grand jury report.
After Paterno reported the incident to Curley, Sandusky was told
to stay away from the school, but critics say the coach should have
done more — try to identify and help the victim, for example, or
alert authorities.
"Here we are again," John Salveson, former president of the
Pennsylvania chapter of the Survivors Network of those Abused by
Priests, said earlier this week. "When an institution discovers abuse
of a kid, their first reaction was to protect the reputation of the
institution and the perpetrator." |
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PA, Harrisburg - 11/7/2011
Sex Abuse Scandal at Penn State Widens |
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Two Penn State officials surrendered Monday on charges that they
failed to report suspected child-sexual abuse by a former coach and
committed perjury in their related grand jury testimony. Senior
Vice President Gary Schultz and Athletic Director Tim Curley both
stepped down from their posts late Sunday, one day after the
charges were announced. The pair are accused of failing to alert
police to complaints that former assistant football coach Jerry
Sandusky had sexually abused eight boys over a 15-year period.
They are also charged with lying to a state grand jury investigating
the former defensive coordinator.
“Schultz, 62, and Curley, 57, are innocent and will seek to have the
charges dismissed”, their lawyers said. Curley's lawyer called the
case weak, while Schultz's lawyer said the men did what they were
supposed to do by informing their superiors of the accusations.
Earlier Monday, investigators encouraged anyone who would
accuse Sandusky of sexual assault to step forward and talk to
police. A graduate assistant coach, Mike McQuery, had reported
witnessing an assault by Sandusky on a young boy, in 2002.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly specifically asked that
the child reportedly assaulted by Sandusky call detectives about the
2002 encounter.
When asked if it was possible that there were more victims, she
said: "When you look at the totality of the circumstances and the
number of victims that we have, I don't think it would be beyond
the realm of possibility that there are other victims that exist here."
Kelly also said the university's longtime football coach, Joe
Paterno, is not a target of the investigation into how the school
handled the accusations. "But somebody has to question about
what I would consider the moral requirements for a human being
that knows of sexual things that are taking place with a child,"
Noonan said. "I think you have the moral responsibility, anyone.
Not whether you're a football coach or a university president or the
guy sweeping the building. I think you have a moral responsibility
to call us."
Paterno has called the criminal charges shocking and troubling.
"If this is true we were all fooled, along with scores of
professionals trained in such things, and we grieve for the victims
and their families," he said in a statement Sunday. |
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California, San Marcos - 2/2/2011
San Marcos Skating Coach Arrested for Child Porn |
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Mark Mandina, 41, a figure skating coach, was in custody,
accused of videotaping a 12-year-old girl taking a shower
at his San Marcos home in 2007. He was arrested Friday in a small
city outside Boston after the San Diego County Sheriff’s Dept.
issued a warrant for his arrest on suspicion of possessing child
pornography. Local authorities began investigating Mandina in
2008 after a family member of the alleged victim found the
videotape and reported it, according to the San Diego Union
Tribune. Mandina and the girl’s father had been friends for years.
Mandina coached students at various ice skating rinks in
San Diego County. The newspaper did not report whether the
alleged victim was one of Mandina’s students. He is expected
to be returned to San Diego County, where he will be arraigned
in Vista Superior Court. |
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California, San Diego - 8/13/2010
Wrestling coach gets jail and probation in sex case
- UPDATE of 1/8/10 article |
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Ryan Paul Carnell, 29, of Rancho Bernardo, a former wrestling coach, was placed on probation for five years
and ordered to spend a year and half in jail. He also was
ordered to register as a sex offender for life. He pleaded
guilty April 30 to committing a lewd act on a child more than
10 years younger than himself. In a separate case he pleaded
no contest to sending a photo of his genitals to a minor.
The judge noted that Carnell would be sent to prison if he
violates the terms of probation. |
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California, San Diego - 8/5/2010
Girls volleyball coach faces molestation charges |
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Xia Wei Li, 29, a volleyball coach, who has worked at
La Jolla county Day School, was booked into county jail
on suspicion of various child molestation counts, involving
a 12-year-old girl at a camp last month, including lewd and
lascivious acts, oral copulation and sexual penetration
with a foreign object. Sources said DNA evidence links him to
the girl's clothing.
Police said Li coached for the Epic Volleyball Club in Poway
from 2006 through 2008 and the Coast Volleyball Club in
San Diego from 2008 through this year. |
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California, San Diego - 5/6/2010
Former Volleyball Coach sentenced
on sex charges
- UPDATE of 1/18/10 article |
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Dominic C. Scarfe, 32, a former volleyball
coach at Madison High School in Clairemont,
admitted he had sexual relations with a 17-year-old
female student, and was ordered to serve a year in
county jail and placed on probation for five years.
Scarfe pleaded guilty last month to unlawful sex with
a minor, oral copulation of a minor and a misdemeanor
count of possessing child pornography. Authorities
said he had a cell phone video of himself and the
victim engaging in a sex act. He was ordered to
register as a sex offender for life, noting that registration
was mandatory because he possessed sexual images
of someone under 18. The judge said probation was
appropriate given Scarfe’s lack of a previous criminal
record and his remorse. She also noted that he underwent
a psychological evaluation that determined he was not
a pedophile. |
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California, San Diego - 5/1/10
Ex-coach pleads guilty to lewd act on a child
- UPDATE of 1/8/10 article |
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Ryan Paul Carnell, 29, a former volunteer
wresting coach at Westview High School
in Rancho Penasquitos, pleaded guilty to a
charge of committing a lewd and lascivious
act on a child who was more than 10 years
younger than he. Carnell has a separate case
in which he pleaded no contest to sending
harmful matter, a photo of his genitals, to a minor.
He faces a maximum total sentence of 3 years
and 8 months in prison on both cases. |
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California, San Jose - 4/10/10
Oak Harbor Swim Coach Convicted of Rape
- UPDATE of 9/15/09 article |
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Andrew King, 61, is a serial child molester who used his position
as a swim coach to molest at least a dozen young girls, allegedly
including one Oak Harbor girl, over his 30-year career. He was
sentenced to 40 years in prison, earlier this year, in a California
courtroom after pleading no contest last fall to 20 child molestation
charges. |
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Olympic Governing Body Under Fire - 4/9/10
36 Coaches Banned for life because of
Sexual Misconduct with Teens |
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In a sex abuse scandal that some victims compare to what
happened in the Catholic Church, at least 36 swimming
coaches have been banned for life by the USA Swimming
organization, over the last 10 years, because of sexual
misconduct with teenagers they coached. One coach, Brian
Hindson of Kokomo, IN, secretly taped teenage girls he coached
in two high school pool locker rooms. He was sentenced in 2008
to 33 years in federal prison. In some cases, the swimming
coaches found to have been sexual predators were able to move
from town to town, one step ahead of police and victims and
their parents. |
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California, San Diego - 1/28/2010
Former Volleyball Coach denies
having sex with student |
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Dominic C. Scarfe, 32, a former volleyball
coach at Madison High School in Clairemont,
pleaded not guilty to nine felony counts related
to having sex with one of his students and one count
of possession of obscene material. If convicted, he
could be sent to prison for up to 27 years. |
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California, San Diego - 1/10/10
Coach’s arraignment canceled
- UPDATE of 1/8/10 article |
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The arraignment of Robin M. Alarcon, the
35-year-old girl's soccer coach at Del Norte
High School, was canceled yesterday while the
District Attorney's office reviews the case further.
Alarcon is accused of sending "very inappropriate"
text messages to one of his students. |
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California, San Diego - 1/8/10
Wrestling Coach charged with sex crimes |
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In December a former volunteer wrestling coach at Westview High School in Rancho Penasquitos,
Ryan Paul Carnell, was accused of molesting a
student. Separately, he is also accused of providing
pornography and marijuana to a teenage student at
the school. |
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California, San Diego - 1/8/10
Coach charged with sex crimes |
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Robin Alarcon, 35, who coached the girls
freshman soccer team at Del North High School,
was arrested for sending "very inappropriate" text
messages to a female student. Alarcon was also
a coach on other campuses, as well. He is also
a girl's club soccer coach for a team in Rancho
Penasquitos. He had cleared all background
checks. He is the latest Poway Unified School
District high school coach to be accused of improper
behavior. |
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California, San Jose 9/15/09
42-Year Sentence Sought for Coach |
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Former swim coach, Andrew King, 61, plead
no contest to child molestation charges. King had
been a head coach at San Jose Aquatics and a number
of swim clubs in the area over the past 40 years. Since
King was arrested in April 2009 on suspicion of
molesting a 14-yr. old girl, investigators say they
found 12 others who said they had been molested by
the coach. King remains in Santa Clara County Jail on
$3 million bail. Santa Clara County DA said that in
pushing for the full 42-yr. sentence for King, he hopes
to schedule a sentencing hearing before the winter
holidays. |
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California-Logan Heights-6/23/2006
Man gets 135 years to life for molesting 2 |
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John Gutierrez Rodriguez Jr., 44, a volunteer baseball and bowling coach was sentenced to 135 years to life in prison. Rodriguez is being charged with molesting two boys in the late 1990’s. |
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California, Santee - 3/4/2003
Volunteer Wrestling Coach Faces
Molest Charges |
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Authorities are trying to determine how a
fugitive accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl
was able to land a position as volunteer
wrestling coach at Santa High School.
Nicholas Martinez, 22, was arrested in New
York in spring 2001 after a 12-year-old
Lake County, California girl told authorities
that he molested her. He was brought back
to California, but was allowed to return to
New York to be discharged from the Army.
That was in Jan. 2002. He never came back
and authorities were looking for him for a year.
After his picture and story were shown on America’s Most Wanted, he eventually turned
himself in. |
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California, Ventura - 1/6/2003
Coach Pleads Guilty in Child Porn Case |
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A former diving coach, who was arrested as part
of a massive federal investigation targeting online
obscenity, has pleaded guilty to possessing hundreds
of images of child pornography. William G. Douglas,
45, ran Dive Thousand Oaks, a private youth diving
club. He was one of five Ventura County coaches
or teachers charged last year with sex crimes against
children. |
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California-Santa Ana-9/28/2002
Soccer coach gets prison for sex with girl |
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Henry Sosa, 42, was sentenced to state prison for having sex with a 15-year-old female soccer player. Sosa was a soccer coach for the club team "surf". The incident took place at a hotel in Irvine, California. Sosa had bought alcohol and got the young soccer player extremely intoxicated, before having sex with her in the hotel. Sosa pleaded guilty to six counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child and was sentenced to 52 months behind bars. |
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California-San Diego-3/26/2002
Youth Coach is Portrayed as Molester |
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Ernest Brooks, 41, is accused of molesting four youth from a San Diego baseball league. Brooks would have large sleepover parties, in which he would have children sleep in his bed with him. Four boys who range in age from 11 to 15, will testify that Brooks fondled them in bed. |
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California-El Cajon-1/12/2002
Coach gets year for sex abuse |
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Randolph Dimacali, 37, was the founder of the San Diego shores water polo club in 1992. Dimacali would bring teenage boys, who he coached to his home in Clairemont, give them alcohol and marijuana while molesting them. Dimacali was sentenced to one year in jail and five years probation. |
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California-San Diego-1/12/2002
Former Little League coach faces trial
for molestation charges |
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Ernest Brooks, 40, faces eight counts of molesting four boys he met at the Adams Avenue Recreation Center Park in San Diego. They have all testified that Brooks, their little league coach fondled them during sleepovers at his Chula Vista residence. |
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Massachusetts-Salem-7/10/2001
Man Pleads to 75 Sex-abuse Charges |
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Christopher Reardon, 29, a former youth leader and YMCA swim coach in Massachusetts is facing 130 counts of child molestation involving 29 children. |
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