“From the moment the District was presented with the allegations, we immediately took decisive action by placing the party in question on administrative leave, as well as contacting the Colton Police Department,” CJUSD spokesperson Katie Orlof said in a statement. “The District has made itself, and will continue to make itself, completely available to the Colton Police Department.
Alleged survivors must file civil suits within eight years of becoming an adult or three years from the date an adult survivor “discovers” or should have discovered they were sexually abused, under current California law.
Coaches, like players, even joked about Gordon’s sex abuse, the players said in interviews and court filings. The former players in interviews and the lawsuit also shine light on the still pervasive, if somewhat dwindling, cultural double standard of how the sexual abuse of underage males by females in positions of authority is viewed differently than men sexually abusing girls or boys.
“It really changed how we looked at sex,” said John Doe 7044. “To us, this is just like a sport, we’re not connecting, just trying to find this type of feeling.” “It’s not OK. It’s wrong. If I’m the is it OK if I do this to some girl at the school?” Doe 7045, who like five of the players is Black, continued. “No, they would put me under the jail.
“Historically, it has been easy for society to downplay the power of a female sex assault perpetrator over boys. In reality, we know the power of a female predator is particularly insidious and dangerous to children,” said Mike Reck, an attorney for the alleged survivors. “The alleged perpetrator here leveraged her position of power over these boys to choreograph her own depraved desires upon them. Not only did she count on the cultural pressure on teenage boys to never turn down sex, Ms.
Often those pins landed in places like New York, Baltimore, Kansas City and the NFL. Six players from Colton, a school with less than 2,000 students, were on NFL rosters during both the 2014 and 2015 seasons. A year later, 10 former Colton players were invited to NFL training camps. Colton’s 2005 roster included six future NFL players.
“If the genders were reversed, the response would be undoubtedly different,” said Jemma Dunn, an attorney for the alleged survivors. “This is not only unfair, but fails to recognize the damages caused and silences male survivors. These men were in their most formative adolescent years and should have been able to trust those in authority; both their trainer who, as an adult, took advantage of their adolescence, and the coaches and staff around them, who encouraged it.
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