/EINPresswire.com/ Victim provides a signed admission by Curl-Burke swim coach Rick Curl, calls USA Swimming’s response insulting to all molestation victims.
Molestation victims’ rights attorney Robert Allard is representing a swim coach molestation victim who is asking USA Swimming to ban swim coach Rick Curl for life based on a signed admission by Curl that he molested the then 13 year old swimmer. The victim is now 43 and resides in Texas. The Washington Post today reported on the molestation allegedly suffered by victim Kelley Currin.
Currin states, “It is disappointing that USA Swimming has known about Rick Curl’s admission for a period of months and prior to that has been aware of rumors of child molestation for decades and yet it has chosen to act only when a major media outlet such as the Washington Post reports on the matter. I faxed the settlement agreement and admission by Rick Curl to a USA Swimming investigator in April of this year. I provided a detailed statement of my claim to an investigator hired by USA Swimming over a month ago. I also followed up and communicated via phone with USA Swimming’s Susan Woesnner, USA Swimming’s “Athlete Protection Office.” I know now that Woesnner was giving me lip service by saying USA Swimming was sympathetic but then going ahead and giving Rick Curl coaching credentials to the US Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska earlier this month, at a time it knew full well about what he had done to me. For USA Swimming to tell the media that they just recently learned of my complaint late last Friday afternoon (July 20), is an outright lie. There was nothing sent to USA Swimming on July 20 that it did not already have in its possession for months if not decades. The only thing that changed is that the Washington Post got involved. Only then did they give the appearance that they were concerned about my complaint.”
Attorney Robert Allard is asking USA Swimming to protect the victim from further abuse by having her recall in detail a painful chapter in her life. Allard states, “This is yet another example of the leadership group USA Swimming not acting until pressure is exerted by the media. Just as USA Swimming relented to the media outcry created by ABC, ESPN and others when they allegedly changed their child protections laws in 2010, it is doing the same thing here. This organization simply is utterly unable to do the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing. USA Swimming and its leaders should be forced to resign in disgrace for continuing to carry on such a charade.” To date, more than 60 USA Swimming coaches have been banned for life for sexually molesting young swimmers.
Currin also states, “Despite Rick Curl’s signed admission and the detailed statement that I have already given to its investigator, USA Swimming wants me to relive the molestation by traveling to Colorado and having me testify as to every sexual act committed by Curl in its kangaroo court. This is insulting to me and to every molestation sex abuse victim.”
About Attorney Robert Allard
Child molestation victims’ rights attorney Robert Allard has been the driving force in uncovering the largest sexual abuse scandal in amateur athletics in the United States. His relentless legal work on behalf of a 14-year-old girl molested by a USA Swimming member coach has resulted in the national governing body that selects our Olympic swim team to make the protection of our young athletes a top priority. As a direct result of this litigation, USA Swimming was forced to completely revamp its child protection policies. At the same time, the United States Olympic Committee announced that it was centralizing and standardizing background checks across all Olympic sports, thereby affecting approximately one million athletes.
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