re: Ex-USA Volleyball coach accused of raping six girls 'hundreds of times'

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The language used implies it was forcible, at least IMO.

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No. You think they suggesting he forcibly raped multiple girls hundreds of times?? That’s a completely different scenario and way more of a story/problem.

I've met this dude on several occasions. A bit pompous but he is a very good coach. Their club (Sports Performance) has been regarded as one of the best for a very long time.

He never struck me as being capable of doing that to young girls but these days you never know...

More detailed report about Butler

Butler had been accused of having sexual contact with five underage girls, dating back to the 1980s. Two of the accusations were made public in an investigative report by the Chicago Sun-Times that was published in November of last year. Two months after the report was published, Butler was banned permanently by USA Volleyball. He was first banned for life by the sport’s governing body in 1995 for having sexual contact with underage girls, but USA Volleyball partially lifted that ban in 2000, allowing him to return to coaching, but stipulating he could not coach junior teams.

The AAU, however, never imposed any limits on him. One of Butler’s former players, Sarah Powers-Barnhard, who said she was abused by Butler for two years starting when she was 16, sued AAU in 2016 for allowing Butler to continue coaching underage girls.

Powers-Barnhard recalled the abuse in an interview with First Coast News. She said Butler told her she needed to “follow him blindly” if she “wanted to be great.”

“He leaned over and kissed me and I had no clue it was coming,” she explained. “No idea. It was very confusing.”

Powers-Barnhard said that incident was just the very beginning of many. She said she lost her virginity to a coach she trusted.

“The sexual abuse started that summer and it came with him inviting me over to his house to talk about the team,” she recalled.

When asked how many times Butler sexually abused her, she replied: “More than I can count. Yeah, hundreds.”

She wasn’t the only one. First Coast News also detailed allegations by Julie Bremner Romias and Christine Brigman Tuzi, both of whom said Butler sexually abused them in high school.

“He was a classic predator,” Romias said. “The first time he actually physically touched me was when we were at a tournament in Japan... That’s when he kissed me and groped me.”

“Shortly thereafter when we got back to the States is when he forced himself on me and raped me,” she said. “I was 17 at the time.”

Tuzi said just the thought of his name brings back fear and panic.

“I’m not ok,” Tuzi said. “I’m not ok. You can ask my kids and husband. I’m not ok. I have issues and I have to work on them daily and that’s because of him.”

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Read what I quoted then get back to me.

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fair enough

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I just think they would say accused of having sex with minors if that were the case. The language used implies it was forcible, at least IMO.

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This is where semantic games become dumb. People think by saying statutory rape they're diminishing the crime. In truth, I think forcible rape is a big enough jump from everything else that it deserves to be the only unqualified "rape."

Of course if I said that in a college classroom I'd be accused of outright endorsing sexual assault of minors, which is absurd. Since the OT is more reasonable and a bastion for intellectualism, I feel safe saying that here.

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His wife is loyal as hell

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She’s just protecting herself, like Hillary did with Bill.

Her husband’s victims must be destroyed.

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while his wife attempted to silence the victims

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Hillary?

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Since the OT is more reasonable and a bastion for intellectualism,

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In your comparison, yes, but it's funny to take this out of its context.

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Perfect place for predators to do their thing. Parents these days will send there children off to these national camps for months at a time hoping they make it to the highest levels of their sport. These guys have little in the way of preventing them from carrying out such crimes.

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Just read some of the accounts of Nassar. A lot of those places, a) parents just drop the kids off, and b) if they are there, they usually aren't allowed in the treatment rooms with the kids. Setup for disaster.

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These guys have little in the way of preventing them from carrying out such crimes

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Especially when the guy's wife is trying to help him cover it up too.

She's just as sick as him.