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a child molester and a master manipulator. more sexual abuse, accusations were raised by a group of shot 3 an avalanche. the former coach of brazil's domestics teams has been accused of sexually assaulting dozens of young athlete. sexual abuse is rife in all areas of sport, individual and team sports, amateur and professional sport. athletes are often abused by the very people who help them when metals, she was a hero, she was mired by everybody. so why would somebody believe me? i was just a little girl. she's coming about this house are calling such company irrespective of gender one, the sports person in 7 was sexually abused when they were under 18. mm. the price will pay to to, to achieve really was was fall too much. who knew

what makes the mill you of sport so favourable to sexual abuse? this bloomed as tissue nashua all paid off. he li, they'd would see an sized this good dell fine, a fine forklift kite in this table to sports indian fines. and for one stroke to them yuki functional rest group, as long as the metals and money keep coming, they don't care. we explored the issue of sexual abuse in several countries and several sports trying to get to the root of the problem and fathom why from governments to the i o c. no one seems to be able to stop the terrible damage being inflicted on young people. i mean ah,

ah, our investigation begins in the seaside town of blackpool in the north of england. this is the home of a former star of british book, a full stuart was a premier league footballer and plead for england. he had a successful career. oh, waited a very long time before speaking up about what his coach did to him. one morning and late 2016 paul read an article in the guardian newspaper in which an ex, uh boller, andy woodward, described how he was abused by his coach as a boy. i think it was

a little bit further in the store if um, if i upset him in any way, drop me from the team at any point you tell me you will go and you will disappear and the dream won't happen. i was frightened to death because he had complete power over me. by that stage. it was like a double whammy, and he would try to abuse me sometimes even when my sister was in the same house. it was just like reading my own story, but with somebody else, somebody else his name and and that really braz ignited with me if you wealthy really, really hit her, a strong note and i felt compelled to, to speak hope. ah,

paul was raped by his coach between the ages of 10 and 14. he took us to see the manchester suburb where he lived as a child, the place where the abuse started back. then as soon as the school day ended, paul would spend all his time on the football pitch across the motorway, a few 100 yards from his home. that was where frank roper is. abuser 1st spotted him at the time roper was working as a talent scout. recruiting young hopefuls for a local club. what you used to do is you used to play football games after school again. so the skills and then people like him would come around and look for players. and he, he approached my dad because he was asking who the father was of the number 10 roper took paul on to his team. the assaults began a week later. paul was 10. the 1st time that he sexually abused me,

he whispered in my ear, but if i tell anyone he would kill my mom and dad and my brothers. and he also said that this is what you have to do if you want to be a footballer. depending on his mood, oh, he would sometimes beat me up. her been laughing as bart because he'd say, look, parents didn't love me. i used to save myself away, dreaming that i was playing a oh profit, where i wanted to learn to play or wembley wearing when flight. and it was my way of almost this associates are you. so from what was actually happening between withdrawn his school, marx went from bad to worse. he started refusing to go to school

and spent a lot of time in his bedroom. ah, listen lunch. happy child. he had then was gone. replaced by a silent teenager who clung doggedly to his dream of becoming a footballer. hall was sexually assaulted almost daily for 4 years. how or less to free himself from the hold his coach had over him. this syndrome is familiar to sociologists. the child is in an extremely weak position, and the club is all powerful. the coaches all powerful are they, they will do as they're told otherwise, or they'll be out and. and if you're a sports coach with, with some level of power and influence, then of course you have something to, to manipulate children with because they, they want your endorsement, they want your approval,

they want your skills to train them. if you can offer them at glory that they can dream about and if you can offer them success, that is something that that would they would aspire to. then of course, you have an enormous power over them because that's too much at stake to, to say no to your coach. so which produces a very conformist, very conservative attitude amongst her mom, shoot boys where they will do as i told, and they will sacrifice whatever they need to sacrifice to make it into the team. had to stay in the team are all kept quiet. so as to stay on the team. but as he got older he got stronger. late one afternoon when he was 14, roper was giving him a lyft tone from football practice in his car. as usual, instead of taking him straight home, he parked in a secluded spot not far away. this was the place

when when i just before i was 15 that i decided that enough was enough. he made in advance to reach over to me and leaned over to me. i pushed him off. i opened the door and just ran and ran from head home. and he never came back to the house again after lunch i'd, i'd simply enjoyed enough. you know, for years was a long, long time to, to, to so for a on a daily basis when i was so for a while stuart is far from being an isolated case. in a high level british sport, the united kingdom has witnessed the biggest sexual abuse scandal and sporting

history. the one involving the most victims and abusers. it is still ongoing. in late 2016, over a period of several weeks chilling revelations of hundreds of cases of sexual abuse of young footballers were headline news. the scandal was unleashed by a newspaper article. the one that prompted paul stuart to speak out. david con, as a guardian reporter, he was one of the team of journalists who broke the story in the article, published on the 16th of november 2016. and he would word a 43 year old ex footballer who had played professionally at regional level revealed that he had been raped by his coach between the ages of $11.17. it was obviously a very powerful interview with on the woodward. but i don't think that

any bounty realised than that it would release the floodgates of so many other people coming forward. me. 4 days later, steve walters, another ex footballer told how his coach had abused him. the following day, david white, a former manchester city player, described how he too had been abused by his coach. more and more victims came forward. in a single week, 6 footballers accused their former coaches in the fortnight after the initial article. 350 footballers spoke out ah, the nation was devastated by their stories. the police squad that dealt with pedophilia cases was tasked with coordinating all the information. it took the investigators over a year and a half to produce an initial report with

their lips, almost $3000.00 referrals that police had purely as a result of the initial. so public story that i'm the woodward actually made around $300.00 suspects that were identified. some were dead, some, there wasn't sufficient evidence to prosecute, but for many the walls and some of those trials are still ongoing. now, i'm actually involved around about $350.00 football clubs, all levels of the game speedy. but i mean, 300 suspects. 350 clubs, 3000 referrals. the country reeled at the figures, but they came as no surprise to those who had been studying the problem for years. i recall thinking when i 1st saw it is a game changer. for some of those i, i suppose it's it was almost what we'd been waiting for,

ah, for yourselves to be more efficient, quicker with our transactions. but with that comes a trade off. every device is a potential entry point for security attack. any machine can be it's an extension of traditional time. the defenders have always been one step behind the attackers with one girl function in the offering. it's not a matter of, if it happens it's a matter of went to they would same with every passing day. we're allowed to openly discuss fewer and

fewer topics. be events on capitol hill on january 6 is one of them. what happened that day is a 3rd rail. was it a riot or an insurrection? even asking, this is inflammatory? it shouldn't be if we can now look into people's minds, read the thoughts. the question then is, what kind of consequence we, we could take from this. i think you take the example fly. it would prevent us from lying. we wouldn't be able to lie anymore. if everything becomes transparent, but what we're thinking mm. my car chill is a sports sociologist, sexual abuse. this is specialist field. he is one of a dozen or so academics around the world. they've been trying to draw attention to the issue for years until the football scandal. no one wanted to know myself in these andras street. i just, i do serve lucas stuck when the figure is all sit. dick good savvy digit related

stacy except it is. and while the decision you can commit down per real close, she also showed us to ship. oh boy because said they bought several 1000 athletes in belgium and the netherlands took partner, study published in 2015, one study about 4000 ex athletes. and they looked all forms of, of abuse on the, the headline find in a was that just over 14 percent of their sample had experienced some form of sexual violence. 14 percent is about one in 7. the evidence suggests that one in 7 athletes under 18 be the male or female experiences sexual abuse. but study use the term sexual abuse and the broad sense of the convention on the rights of the child to mean anything from indecent images

to rate. that is massive. i deeply trouble it. but also within that study, they found that athletes who were non heterosexual identified, their prefers rate was also higher. they found that to athletes from a minority ethnic background, their prevalence rate was also higher. and they found that athletes at the international level who performed the international level, the previous re for those athletes walls, i think just a 30 percent. so considerably higher than the that the general sample. so simple, an important study in the 1st real robust study we've had in this, in this area that's boring. with dell stuart reached the international level in his fort, the level at which almost one athlete in 3 has experienced sexual abuse in $1086.00 . 8 years after he found the strength to rebuff his coach. he fulfilled his dream

age 22. he signed a 200000 pound contract to play for manchester city, one of the top british clubs in the 198788 season alone. he scored 28 goals. the london club tottenham hotspur made a fortune for him and in 1091 he scored a goal that one has seen the faker. oh had seen fortune and professional recognition. he moved to london with his wife and he had met 3 years earlier. their 1st child was born around then in magazine photographs. paul looks the happiest of men as if he had forgotten the 4 years of sexual abuse. but victory's adulation and wealth, we're not enough to heal the wounds. well, i'll stop it denied tobin london. i was parted with teammates

and somebody offered me a tablet. i didn't really know what it was at the time, but it was x to say, i'm to you. once i took the tablet, all of a sudden the euphoria was just fresh. like nothing i'd ever fall before. much. it was just i just made you so happy. then i got hoped on both x to say ok. ok. i was just in such a self the stroke mode at that time and the more drink god. the more drugs had the more i needed to sometimes just normal to pain after a year and rehab paul ended his career and football, he set up a small medical communications business and went back to live in blackpool with his

wife and their 3 children. frank roper, his abuser, was never brought to trial. he died of cancer in 2005. he the police received allegations of abuse by roper from 31 victims. paul kept his secret for 42 years. why do most victims keep quiet about their abuse? ah ah, in the suburbs of madrid, a former champion gymnast, describe so sexual abuse, victims locked themselves into silence.

gloria this terrace was an olympic gymnast. it was 36 years before she spoke about her experience. i live and i have a hard it's so nice feelings on this mail. they did last, you know, they mathnasium with my experience was longer in the gym. i was not allowed to look up. i was just looking down to the floor when our and given us glorious story starts with the little girl who loved sport. got a big grocery my, me but you know, i, i remember those were the happy days in the gym. i, you know, i was really, really excited about didn't i only thought about being in the gym and working out

when i moved out of the 1st you the local club, i went to the national training center and must have been 11, probably 10 or 11. i think i was just starting to train with, with the coach. the coach was his use car bio, the star of spanish gymnastics. you know, he was very charming. he had been a very good gymnast. we felt very special that he paid attention to us. you know, then now, then the strange things started to happen. this was very subtle, very, very slow. he isolated us from the rest of our world. he would not allow us to speak with with the boys in the gym, but also with our brothers and sisters. and a sudden our parents are bad ones. he controlled what we 8,

he controlled our sleeping. he controlled everything, you know. so then he started getting us the massage. ah, he and i used to be the 1st one getting to the gym in the afternoons. he would make me work wait for him. and then in the warm up room that was in the basement. right. my, him it felt like my body was there, but i was not. i was, i was dancing with carmen, or de bolero, the rebel. and that's what i, what i did, i had to keep my mind b. c, with other stuff. i used to repeat in my mind my routine over and over and over and over and over again. just not to think

for . busy ringback busy monday i couldn't stop the tears and i came out crying. and so my father went after him to the lock room. ah, and i could hear them screaming from outside. and my father came out and he told me, you're not ever coming back here again. he never asked me. i never told you my, i thought this is going with me to my grave. my secret some survivors of abuse will talk about how they didn't want to speak about what was happening because it wasn't just their dream. it was their parents treat

and so for many survivors it isn't. it's often known till the parents of, of us. she died that they're able to feel able to speak about the experiences they had. gloria is one such survivor. she waited until her father died to speak out. in 2012 aged 48, she reported the abuse to the police. in the ensuing investigation, 14 people testified against his use. car bio, several girls he coached alongside, gloria reported inappropriate touching. some like i read martinez. agreed to testify publicly. others such as om medina, san jose, who married carbajal, testified in his favor. the abuse had happened too long ago for car bio to be tried . eventually an agreement was reached with the spanish gymnastics federation, under which he ceased to be a national coach. at the time,

a chairman of the federation was none other than car bios own son. also a former champion, gymnast car by o is denied the abuse and still has a sizable fan following. she just told me that he loved me. so of course you had, you had this love hate relationship. he was your coach who carol here and did you say this is just so confusing? you don't at that age, you don't know what's going on. i felt responsible for what was happening to me. i t. i felt ashamed. i thought i provoked it because i was pretty so i was not gonna tell my father that i was provoking that, or anybody, you know, if somebody had asked me, i would have denied it at that time. on vin, i'm kinda i was for, she's in franklinton niched shaft tut and asked him if my son position

went to him. if it's a win done and a stifled zagging eddies is fine photons, good food, figure, auntie zocker does. it is unfair to speech. 15 viet von, they can no longer kush making her want on socially. and i got there to start that so surprising. we don't teach children from a young age what their rights are. if we did those kinds of things, we might start to erode the vulnerability that they are, that these children have many factors make these crimes easy to commit. and hard to report in sporting context. the power the coach has over the athletes. the fact that they are used to pain on a culture of obedience, parental pressure, shame, and dreams of glory. you might think sporting federations would do their utmost to protect their athletes and punish the perpetrators that very often they do just the

opposite. some generations deliberately conceal abuse and protect abusers. the u. s. swimming federation is one of the worst examples usa swimming federation is a powerful organization of the 104 metals, one by the usa and the 2016 olympics. 33 were won by swimmers. this is the federation that produced michael phelps, the athlete who currently holds the most olympic titles with 28 metals. to his credit. it has almost 4 100000 members and an annual budget of over $40000000.00. one man is responsible for this success. chuck,

well guess who was executive director of usa swimming for 20 years. chuck wall guy succeeded in turning a non profit sporting association into a highly profitable federation. and during the 20 years when he was executive director, he covered up numerous cases of sexual abuse. ah well, they would same with every passing day were allowed to openly discuss fewer and fewer topics. the events on capitol hill on january 6 is one of them. what happened that day is a 3rd rail. was it a riot or an insurrection? even asking, this is inflammatory. it shouldn't be ah

who you want to be when you grow old and hunger and suffering at the border between bell roofs and poland, where thousands of migrants including children, remained stranded while trying to enter the a year. a group of nobel prize, what it says about and human rights organization are allowed immediate access to the display of arrogance and impunity. the russian foreign minister blasts, the e used approach to the unfolding migrant crisis. and in other news this, our world renowned lawyer says a recent guantanamo trial described as a stain on the moral fiber of america could hopefully set a precedent for other victims of abuse at the hands of us agents. this is the 1st time that everyone.