The sordid history of scholastic and college team coaches or doctors who ignore boundaries with student-athletes, and sometimes commit crimes in crossing them, is often a story of warning signs missed. In the case of Kirk Shipley, a longtime teacher and rowing coach at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md., who was charged this summer with sexually abusing two former student-rowers, the warning signs were abundant...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/10/kirk-shipley-bethesda-maryland-bad-judgment/
The school was one rowboat
ReplyDeleteThe teacher had won the vote
The slickest coach yet afloat
Aboard with a grin and gloat.
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fastfact.html
ReplyDelete"Child sexual abuse refers to the involvement of a child (person less than 18 years old) in sexual activity that violates the laws or social taboos of society."
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