This is not an article but it is a video that is part of a recent 20/20 episode from Friday, April 9th. This subject really attracted my eye because I have been swimming competitively since I was 5 and still do now. The clip from the episode talks about how a girl's coach secretly video taped her and the tapes were found after her former coach sold an old computer that had child pornography on it. The swimmer's mother had to identify her in a still frame from a video that was confiscated from her former coach. As an athlete a coach is someone who becomes another parent to you especially in swimming when you have practice everyday and for 3-4 hours a day. You also learn to trust this person because they want you to improve in your sport and think there is no way they could harm you in any way, mentally or physical.
This video clip really made me think about all the coaches I have had previously throughout my career and if they have done any of this disgusting stuff themselves. I heard from a friend on my team at York College that an old coach of his was fired as a principal of his school due to some of his students giving him massages during school.
The former coach of the swimmer was sentenced to 400 months and will definitely become a registered sex offender and will never coach another swim team again because of this incident.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/video/swim-coachs-secret-tapes-10331100?tab=9482931§ion=4765066
Disgusting. As if parents don't have enough to worry about...
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