English football (soccer) pedophile scandal.

[marylander1940]

OP's note: is like the Sandusky scandal all over again, same code of silence.

 

Crewe Alexandra, the club most heavily implicated in the Barry Bennell case, were warned he had sexually abused one of his junior footballers but allowed the man who turned out to be a serial paedophile to stay at the club for a number of years, the Guardian has been told.

 

Bennell was the subject of a top-level meeting in the late 1980s but was kept in his job despite the chairman at the time, Norman Rowlinson, recommending at one point that the club “get him out” because of growing suspicions about his behaviour.

 

Hamilton Smith, who was on the board from 1986 to early 1990, has told this newspaper he was so concerned at the time he asked for specially convened talks about concerns over Bennell’s relationship with young boys at the club and, specifically, to inform his colleagues that someone had marched over to him at a junior football match to allege that a friend’s son had been abused.

 

Smith recalls that the talks were held at Rowlinson’s house and the chairman was so disturbed by what he heard he suggested, at first, that the vice-chairman, John Bowler, should instruct the manager, Dario Gradi, to find a new youth-team coach, before an agreement was eventually reached that Bennell should be kept on but not left alone with boys and stopped from arranging overnight stays.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/nov/25/crewe-barry-bennell-former-board-member

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/football-sex-abuse-crewe-alexandra-coach-barry-bennell-a7440196.html

[RandyC]

Truly despicable.

[marylander1940]

Truly despicable.

 

 

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