Congress formed center based in Denver in 2017 to deal with abuse allegations in Olympic sports. Now it’s facing harsh criticism.
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Background check of Denver schools’ special ed director did not reveal prior allegations of inappropriate behavior
Denver Public Schools officials said their vetting process doesn’t involve internet searches and they only learned about Michael Winston’s past because a parent threatened to tell the media
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Longtime US snowboard coach Peter Foley under investigation
The U.S. Center for SafeSport is investigating misconduct allegations against longtime snowboard coach Peter Foley, who has left his job at U.S. Ski & Snowboard. Foley is listed as being under “temporary suspension” on the SafeSport website, which added his name to its database on Friday. At the Beijing Olympics last month, a former member […]
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Sexual abuse, misconduct allegations kept quiet for decades at world-renowned Colorado Center for the Blind
More than a dozen previously unreported instances of sexual misconduct and abuse spanning at least two decades at the Colorado Center for the Blind in Littleton have surfaced during an internal investigation of the school’s parent organization. Among the offenses were the alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl by a summer youth camp counselor […]
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Tay Anderson will step away from Denver Public Schools board duties during sexual misconduct investigation
Tay Anderson says he will step away from his Denver school board duties until the completion of an independent investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against him. “These unsubstantiated false allegations have caused a great deal of trauma to our entire district, and our students deserve better,” he wrote on Twitter on Sunday. “These false […]
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Denver Public Schools board initiates outside investigation into Tay Anderson sexual assault allegations
The Denver school board has hired an outside firm to do a “thorough and independent fact-finding investigation” into allegations against school board member Tay Anderson, who has been accused of sexual assault and other inappropriate behavior. The organization Black Lives Matter 5280 issued a statement in late March saying a woman told the group that Anderson sexually […]