Category: Crime
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Everett Uchiyama whistle blowers go public for first time, say USA Swimming failed to protect athletes
On October 17, 2008 USA Swimming executive director Chuck Wielgus received an email from an Orange County parent he was all too familiar with. Two years earlier Tracy Palmero’s allegations that U.S. national team director Everett Uchiyama began a sexual relationship with her when she was a teenager swimmer led to USA Swimming firing Uchiyama…
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USA Swimming faces allegations of sexual abuse
A new report accuses the organization of failing to properly address claims of sexual abuse made by hundreds of alleged victims dating back to 1997.
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US Swimming did little as hundreds of coaches abused kids
Leadership of America’s governing body over US swimming has, for decades, condoned a culture of sexual abuse — even as scores of coaches were arrested for their fiendish acts against kids, according to a bombshell report. The Orange County Register, citing police reports, court document and internal USA Swimming communications, showed how the governing body…
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Florida School Shooting Victim Nicholas Dworet Was Aspiring Olympic Swimmer
Nicholas Dworet was a high school senior, a “charismatic young man†and an aspiring Olympic swimmer who would have turned 18 next month. He was one of 17 people killed in a mass shooting on Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. “He was, you know, just a very charismatic young man.…
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Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors Smith talks sexual abuse
One of the recurring lines that Ariana Kukors Smith says she heard from her swim coach Sean Hutchison was that she was “the most impressive person” he had ever met.
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My Story | Ariana Kukors
Any swimmer will tell you about the black line on the bottom of every pool . . . the line that we follow day after day. We develop a relationship with that line; it holds our hopes and our dreams, but it also holds our fears. If only that black line could talk, it would…
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Former Olympic Hopefuls Say Swimming Coaches Sexually Abused Them
America has been horrified by the extent of the abuse by gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, but within another group of athletes who have spent countless hours of training, some say they too have been sexually assaulted by their coaches. The sport is swimming. Scores of women say they’ve been victimized and that swimming officials didn’t…
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Outpouring Of Support For Swimming Coach Shot By Burglar Is Helping Him Recover, Says Wife
Adam Crossen of Orange is recovering after being shot in the chest by a would-be car burglar Monday. Stacey Butler reports.
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Judge Who Gave A Light Sexual Assault Sentence To A Stanford Swimmer Now Faces A Reckoning
Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky opted to sentence Turner to six months in jail and three years of probation, setting off outrage in the community and beyond.