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Football sex abuse.
This thread has been closed as DS don't believe it to be appropriate to speculate on any more footballers that were sexually abused.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2190885 Bearing this in mind, I've created this thread to discuss this unfolding story. |
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It is terrible and horrifying what these people have had to go through, more power to them for finding the strength of character to open up, and to tell their stories to the public.
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On seeeing your original thread closed, I posted this in the neutrals thread
Thought I'd re-post it in your new thread This is going to be a huge story Top football clubs made secret payments to buy the silence of young players sexually abused by coaches, The Telegraph can disclose, as the growing scandal threatened to engulf the sport. A well-placed source said a number of clubs, including at least one Premier League team, had paid compensation to footballers but only after victims had signed confidentiality agreements so strict that along with their families and lawyers they are banned from saying publicly if the cases even existed. The revelation will fuel concern that the national game has covered up historic sexual abuse for years. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...payments-keep/ |
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This is going to get very big.
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This is going to get very big.
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This is a terrible story, and shows that these predators can operate in any walk of life where they have access to children.
Football is just the latest place where it has come to light. |
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Or shut down fast once again, depends on which direction it goes in I suppose.
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I meant the story, not the thread!
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I don't envy anyone who has to enter the boardroom or the press office at Gresty Road in the next few days, that's for sure.
They'll have to firstly deal with the claims from a former Crewe board member that the club were given notice of Bennell's behaviour in the late 80s - contradicting Dario Gradi's claims that Crewe only became aware when Bennell was arrested in the 1990s - and declined to dismiss him or indeed do anything of a disciplinary nature. |
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Seems that no part of the nations life was safe from paedophiles or from cover ups.
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It's not as if this hasn't happened in other sports, so why the big shock that it's being exposed now in football I'm not sure. The disturbing thing is that it's taken so long to emerge.
Sport would have been an easy target for any sort of rings, due to the nature of young talent needing training/coaching. If historically it's been swept aside or covered up in other walks of life, you can rest assured it's done the same in sports. |
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It's not as if this hasn't happened in other sports, so why the big shock that it's being exposed now in football I'm not sure. The disturbing thing is that it's taken so long to emerge.
Sport would have been an easy target for any sort of rings, due to the nature of young talent needing training/coaching. If historically it's been swept aside or covered up in other walks of life, you can rest assured it's done the same in sports. I take my hat off to the footballers who have gone public about this. It's bad enough for females to admit to being abused or raped by men, but I truly believe that it's worse for males, especially in the macho world of football. Heck, they are only just beginning to grasp that idea that gay men can play/support football! I know of a football referee and a rugby player that daren't 'come out' and we're in 2016!!! |
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I personally think, people should be keeping a close eye across all sports
They will be drawn to work anywhere, that puts them into contact with young people Schools, Surf Schools, Youth Clubs, Scouts, All Sports, Foster Homes |
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I personally think, people should be keeping a close eye across all sports
They will be drawn to work anywhere, that puts them into contact with young people Schools, Surf Schools, Youth Clubs, Scouts, All Sports, Foster Homes That doesn't mean some will slip through the cracks, but it's far safer now. |
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True, but just because someone has a clean CRB check doesn't mean that they aren't a paedophile.
I know of a man whose into underage girls that teaches sport who has one. |
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It's not as if this hasn't happened in other sports, so why the big shock that it's being exposed now in football I'm not sure. .
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True, but just because someone has a clean CRB check doesn't mean that they aren't a paedophile.
I know of a man whose into underage girls that teaches sport who has one. |
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I'll honest, I don't know how I feel about this news story.
I can see that for the individual, the admission that it happened and ability to talk to an appropriate professional may help them resolve personal issues. I can also see that going public might encourage others to come forward to get help. It cannot be a surprise that individuals that have already been convicted of offences may be guilty of other crimes and of course it may be that new charges may be appropriate for them or for people hitherto unidentified. I am less clear what investigations of what did or didn't happen within individual clubs or sports 20 or 30 years ago will achieve. I was slightly disappointed to hear Dino Nocivelli explaining that they are pursuing actions against many clubs and organisations across a wide range of sports and activities and that football is naturally just the most high profile of these. So is this about looking for compensation as well as justice and recovery? |
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The FA have announced an enquiry
The Football Association has confirmed it is investigating allegations of sexual abuse in football. Former footballers have been coming forward to say they were sexually abused as youth players. A hotline set up by the NSPCC has already received more than 100 calls. The FA said: "We are working closely with the police to support their lead investigations and must ensure we do not do anything to interfere with or jeopardise the criminal process." The FA has instructed independent leading counsel Kate Gallafent QC to assist it with its review. The FA added that the internal review will look at what information the FA was aware of at relevant times around the issues, which clubs were aware and what action was, or should have been taken. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38121724 Can't say I'm that confident of the FA investigating their own |
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Really? Have you done anything about it?
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I'll honest, I don't know how I feel about this news story.
I can see that for the individual, the admission that it happened and ability to talk to an appropriate professional may help them resolve personal issues. I can also see that going public might encourage others to come forward to get help. It cannot be a surprise that individuals that have already been convicted of offences may be guilty of other crimes and of course it may be that new charges may be appropriate for them or for people hitherto unidentified. I am less clear what investigations of what did or didn't happen within individual clubs or sports 20 or 30 years ago will achieve. I was slightly disappointed to hear Dino Nocivelli explaining that they are pursuing actions against many clubs and organisations across a wide range of sports and activities and that football is naturally just the most high profile of these. So is this about looking for compensation as well as justice and recovery? Besides, aren't a lot of victims of these rich ex footballers anyway? I doubt they'd put themselves & their families through all this just for the money if these allegations aren't true. The same thing was said right at the beginning of the Savile incidents as they came to light. |
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Because its the worlds biggest sport in one of the main countries its played in against a recent backdrop of similar shocking stories. Its obviously going to be big news and cause shock to some if the scale being talked about is true.
To explain what I mean by swept under the carpets, not in being ignored, but cases could be dealt with by the proper authorities without the media knowing, and precautions implemented by the clubs and authorities without much fuss that the media/public would be none the wiser. I'm not suggesting that it would be ignored. |
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I found it upsetting to see all those footballers in tears on the Victoria Derbyshire show:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8c3w48mLMKI |
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Just been discussing this with friends.
Schoolboy soccer will attract paedophiles like a moth to a light. If anyone has a young lad who plays for one of these teams, it might be an idea to sit him down and ask if anything untoward has happened when training, playing football etc. |
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Just been discussing this with friends.
Schoolboy soccer will attract paedophiles like a moth to a light. If anyone has a young lad who plays for one of these teams, it might be an idea to sit him down and ask if anything untoward has happened when training, playing football etc. |
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There was always going to be some story at some point.
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