Category Archive for : ‘ATHLETIC INSTRUCTOR TRAINER’

January 14, 2021
Christine Breenan
USA Today

Just hours before the 2021 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were set to begin in Las Vegas, the attorney for a former skater said the sport’s national governing body agreed to pay $1.45 million to settle the skater’s lawsuit accusing the organization of being negligent in its duty to protect young athletes from sexual abuse.

Adam Schmidt, 36, a former skating student of suspended Olympic coach Richard Callaghan, alleged that he suffered “numerous sexual assaults” by the well-known coach when he trained with him as a teenager in

October 30, 2019
Drew Wilder
NBC Washington

A Northern Virginia gymnastics coach has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing an underage athlete more than a decade ago.
Prince William County Police say Sergio Galvez, now 47, trained the alleged victim at the Capital Gymnastics National Training Center in Burke and sexually abused her multiple times in the Haymarket area between August 2007 and November 2008.
“There were multiple occasions, three of which we were able to identify, of specific acts that occurred here in the county between 2007 and 2008,” said Jonathan Perok of Prince

October 31, 2019
Justice

ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a five-count indictment charging Austin Pratt, 30, of Conesus, NY, with enticement of a minor, production, receipt, and possession of child pornography, and transfer of obscene matter to a minor. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Melissa M. Marangola, who is handling the case, stated that according to the indictment and a previously filed complaint, on January

October 5, 2019
Ruby Gonzales
East Bay Times
  

A former assistant baseball coach at Azusa High School was sentenced to five years probation and a year in county jail for having sex with a 16-year-old student, authorities said on Friday.

The judge, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, also gave Jessica Esparza of La Verne 300 days credit for time served while in custody, said Ricardo Santiago, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

The 29-year-old Esparza pleaded no contest to unlawful sexual intercourse and oral copulation of a person under 18, Santiago said.

The DA’s Office

huffingtonpost.com/Mark Bowes
2/19/14
Kristin L.S. Beck, a 30 year old former employee of HCA Virginia Health Systems working asan athletic trainer at Monacan High School, pleaded guilty to having sex with a student athleteafter the teen initiated the relationship.  Beck was convicted of contributing to thedelinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor, and sentenced to 12 months in jail with six monthssuspended.
(Virginia)

Nine former students of the Boston School for the Deaf filed a lawsuit yesterday alleging they were raped and beaten by nuns at the now-defunct Catholic school.  At least 15 nuns were named in the lawsuit, along with a priest and male athletic instructor at the school.  The alleged victims, three women and sex men, say they were between the ages of 7 and 16 when they were sexually and physically abused between 1944 and 1977.

(Boston, Massachusetts)