SafeSport: Why Would Anyone Expect Our Paid Employees To Investigate Abuse?
Photo: Chris J Ratcliffe (Getty) Four women are suing USA Taekwondo, the U.S. Olympic Committee, and the U.S. Center for SafeSport for their roles in ignoring repeated reports of sexual abuse by Taekwondo star coach Jean Lopez and his brother, Olympic medalist Steven Lopez, going back to 1996. SafeSport has asked to be dismissed from the lawsuit, and one element of its defense is that the organization’s leaders couldn’t possibly have done anything about those reports, because it didn’t open its doors until March 2017. But new documents show that people were employed at SafeSport at least 11...
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