{"id":435343,"date":"2020-06-11T12:26:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T19:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=435343"},"modified":"2024-10-28T11:31:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:31:42","slug":"sex-abuse-survivors-their-lawyer-call-on-tim-hinchey-to-purge-usa-swimming-of-enablers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sex-abuse-survivors-their-lawyer-call-on-tim-hinchey-to-purge-usa-swimming-of-enablers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex Abuse Survivors &#038; Their Lawyer Call On Tim Hinchey To Purge USA Swimming Of &#8216;Enablers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Debra Grodensky, Tracy Palmero and Suzette Moran<\/strong>, three survivors taking legal action against USA Swimming over historic sex abuse, and the lawyer representing them,<strong> Bob Allard<\/strong>, have called on <strong>Tim Hinchey<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaswimming.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>USA Swimming<\/strong> <\/a>chief executive, to dump &#8216;enablers&#8217; in the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>They claim that employees who covered up sex abuse under <strong>Chuck Wielgus<\/strong>, the former and late CEO, are still working for USA Swimming. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2020\/06\/10\/usa-swimming-sued-under-new-california-sexual-abuse-victims-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details of the lawsuit were first reported<\/a> by the <em>Orange County Register<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/428000246?title=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/428000246\">Press conference announcing the filing of sexual abuse lawsuits against USA Swimming.<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/childmolestationlawyers\">Corsiglia McMahon &amp; Allard<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference to announce a set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/six-women-name-usa-swimming-former-coaches-in-sexual-assault-lawsuits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three lawsuits filed against USA Swimming over abuse by swim coaches Andy King, Everett Uchiyama and Mitch Ivey, as reported by Swimming World yesterday<\/a>, Allard said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMr Hinchey: I believe you to be a good man with good intentions. True change cannot occur unless those who knew [about sexual abuse] and remained silent and did nothing are ousted from USA Swimming\u2019s leadership.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wielgus, who died in 2017, was singled out in the latest round of challenges over historic sex abuse for continued heavily criticism of the kind that caused him to w<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/no-hall-of-fame-for-chuck-wielgus-withdraws-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ithdraw his name from the list of candidates for the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2014<\/a>. Said Allard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cChuck Wielgus was the poster-boy \u2018bad guy\u2019 within this organization. He\u2019s now gone. But he did not act alone. Not even close. He had the cooperation of a very large board of directors and a very large management team.\u00a0There are people who remain in leadership positions today within USA Swimming who go way back to even the days of Debra Grodenski in the late \u201980s, early \u201990s. And if it means to blow things up to replace all these people with some good people, then that\u2019s what we have to do. That\u2019s where it starts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Grodensky, a victim of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-swimming-ignored-andy-king-sexual-abuse-complaint-according-to-e-mail-documentation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King&#8217;s abuse in the 1980s<\/a>, named three people she says knew about his sex abuse crimes, did not act but remain in leadership positions at USA Swimming to this day.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChildMolestationAttorneys\/videos\/549636742306843\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch the press conference in full here at the <\/a><a class=\"_8nge\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/ChildMolestationAttorneys\/\">Childhood Sexual Abuse Lawyers<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChildMolestationAttorneys\/videos\/549636742306843\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Facebook page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Here are some key resources related to the theme of sexual abuse in sport:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/championwomen.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nancy Hogshead (Makar), the 1984 Olympic 100m freestyle champion who these days runs Champion Women<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.athleticbusiness.com\/athlete-safety\/how-to-stop-sexual-abuse-in-sports.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Stop Sexual Abuse in Sports \u2013 by Nancy Hogshead-Makar at AthleticsBusiness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/48\/7\/667.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lifetime sexual and physical abuse among elite athletes<\/a>: a Cross-sectional study of prevalence and correlation with athletics injury \u2013 Abstracts from the IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury &amp; Illness in Sport, Monaco 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/ssi\/violence\/SSI_SexualViolencePreventionToolkit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sexual Violence Prevention \u2013\u00a0An Athletics Tool Kit for a Healthy and Safe Culture, from the NCAA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/sport\/sites\/sport\/files\/gender-based-violence-sport-study-2016_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Study on gender-based violence in sport<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/two-takes-depression\/201112\/sexual-abuse-in-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sexual Abuse in Sports \u2013 Know the facts. Learn the tips<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calcasa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Policy-Brief-Sports-Culture-Final-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sports Culture as an Opportunity to Prevent Sexual Violence<\/a> \u2013 Developed by the Center for Gender Equity and Health at the University of California, San Diego for Reliance<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thearmyofsurvivors.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Army of Survivors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pact5.org\/resources\/prevention-and-readiness\/athletes-and-sexual-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Athletes and Sexual Assault \u2013 Prevention and Readiness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/229482468_Sexual_Abuse_in_Sport_A_Model_to_Prevent_and_Protect_Athletes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sexual Abuse in Sport: A Model to Prevent and Protect Athletes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iss-ffm.de\/fileadmin\/assets\/veroeffentlichungen\/downloads\/Prevention_of_sexual_and_gender_harassment_and_abuse_in_sports.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prevention of sexual and gender harassment and abuse in sports \u2013 Initiatives in Europe and beyond<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.de\/scholar?q=resources+for+sexual+abuse+among+athletes&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academic\/Scholar resources on sexual abuse of athletes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbiz.bz\/womensportinternational\/taskforces\/harassment_brochure.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WomenSport International Task Forces:\u00a0The Sexual Harassment Task Force \u2013 Brochure on Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debra Grodensky, Tracy Palmero and Suzette Moran, three survivors taking legal action against USA Swimming over historic sex abuse, and the lawyer representing them, Bob Allard, have called on Tim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5743,"featured_media":435348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122077],"tags":[1944,27353,764,123702,123729,795,123728,38275,61840,123727,2690],"class_list":["post-435343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-americas","tag-attorney","tag-bob-allard","tag-chuck-wielgus","tag-debra-grodensky","tag-historic-sex-abuse","tag-lawyer","tag-legal-action","tag-suzette-moran","tag-tim-hinchey","tag-tracy-palmer","tag-usa-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Sex Abuse Survivors &amp; 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