A coach can be banned from working with young athletes and still find a way back onto the sidelines. That is the central problem exposed by a recent Washington Post and ProPublica investigation into Ryan Richardson, a Texas girls’ volleyball coach who was ultimately declared permanently ineligible by the U.S. Center for SafeSport. According to
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When people think about sexual abuse by a physician, they often focus on the individual doctor responsible for the misconduct. However, in some cases, a hospital, medical practice, university medical center, or healthcare system may also bear responsibility. Healthcare institutions have significant responsibilities when it comes to hiring, credentialing, supervising, and retaining physicians. When those
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Most medical examinations are performed professionally and appropriately. Patients routinely trust doctors with intimate information, physical examinations, and procedures involving highly sensitive parts of the body. Unfortunately, not every physician honors that trust. Many survivors of physician sexual abuse do not immediately recognize what happened. Some leave an appointment feeling uncomfortable but struggle to explain
For survivors pursuing civil lawsuits for sexual assault, the deposition is often the part of the process they dread most. It is understandable. Being asked to describe what happened to you — under oath, on the record, with the defense attorney in the room — is an inherently difficult experience. But it is also a
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When someone is sexually abused, the focus naturally falls on the person who committed the harm. But in many cases, there’s a harder and equally important question: how did this happen, and who allowed it to? Abuse doesn’t occur in a vacuum. It tends to happen in environments where institutions — schools, churches, treatment facilities,
If you’re a survivor of sexual abuse in Colorado, you may not realize that the civil legal system offers a path to accountability that operates entirely independently from anything that happened — or didn’t happen — in the criminal process. A civil lawsuit isn’t about whether the State can prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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SafeSport did not come about by accident, and it did not come about because sports organizations suddenly chose transparency. The U.S. Center for SafeSport was created in 2017 in response to decades of sexual abuse, grooming, and institutional failure in Olympic and amateur sports—failures that were laid bare most publicly by the abuse perpetrated by
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When people ask why athletes don’t report abuse, the question is often framed as a moral one: Why didn’t they say something? Why didn’t they come forward sooner? That framing misses the point. Silence is rarely about weakness or credibility. For many athletes, especially those abused as children or teenagers, silence is a rational response
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Grooming in sports is often misunderstood because it rarely looks like abuse at the beginning. It is not a single act or a sudden event. Grooming is a pattern of conduct that unfolds over time—one that involves gaining access to an athlete, building trust and dependence, gradually crossing boundaries, and creating conditions where abuse can
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When you seek medical or therapeutic care, you are placing extraordinary trust in the person treating you. Doctors, nurses, therapists, and other healthcare providers hold significant authority, and Colorado law expects them to use that authority responsibly. When a provider abuses that power through sexual misconduct, the experience can be profoundly destabilizing. Many survivors are
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