What alter halter experienced in court is what most defense lawyers try to do to every rape victim and every child molestation victim It is up to the prosecutor to make sure this does not happen. Unfortunately some prosecutors are afraid to try cases. And sexual crimes scare the crap out of a lot of prosecutors. I don’t know why the hell prosecutors are afraid to try rapes and child molestations and murders. But I saw that over and over in over 28 yrs. including when I was asked by a rookie to go save his case when Nancy grace was supposed to be training him. Poor little girl whose father had been raping her and her mother fled town with her. Demand more of those who represent victims
i boarded at a barn where the BO told me her husband had been accused of molesting some of the 32 foster kids they’d had over the years. I hope there is a hell.
I was in a clinic with GM in the 70’s. One girl had a nervous giggle that George found irritating. He picked up a handful of dirt and told her to open her mouth, she didn’t, but he threw the dirt in her face anyway.! :eek:
So George Mason University and their athletic department was notified of his criminal record involving sexual abuse of a minor… and they chose to have him instruct a class and briefly affiliated their team with his farm ANYWAY!!!
That’s stunning. And stupid. Obviously Michigan State University paid a HEFTY legal price in terms of civil penalties after their absurd handling of Larry Nasser.
But Larry Nassar was a widely respected team doctor. Tom Navarro is incredibly lacking in terms of qualification to teach any class, much less coach a college program. And he plead guilty to 3rd degree sodomy involving a 14 year old. What in the WORLD was GMU thinking?
They actually paid 30 days plus didn’t get the deposit back so essentially were forced to gave 60 days pay after they gave notice. I know how a normal security deposit works but he was pissed because a number of people left at once.
“the second an investigation is opened against you, you have to expend great cost and jump through hoops to even begin to challenge the investigation and any finding against you”
Obviously she has never represented anyone at a licensing board hearing.
AFAIK, the timeline of his association with the university began around the time he started Riverchase and ended around the time of the Penn State scandal, but the team has continued to use Riverchase at various times over the years, in addition to the team’s competition meets being held there. At this point, there isn’t a wide selection of facilities to use around here, so it’s a matter of whatever works out, and that place is always going to be in the top five available choices until something better comes along in close proximity to the university.
What criteria limits the selection of facilities for the team? Convenience plus price? Availability of lesson type horses for IHSA use? It seems to me like there are MANY other options… but I guess just further out? And maybe not so very many with enough in the way of available lesson type horses for the program?
If I am understanding the timing of what you are saying… they actually were affiliated with him when he was still on the sex offender list in both VA and NY?
You’d have to talk to the person running the program and ask them what their exact needs and criteria are. I think it really just comes down to “whatever is available with all the necessary on-site amenities, within a certain distance, and within the budget”. The seeds for it all were planted during my last days at GMU, so I can’t tell you anything about any of it from my first-hand knowledge, just what I know from what little is out there about the program and it’s patchwork, undocumented history. From what’s out there, the team has bounced from farm to farm, numerous times, but has more or less always gone back to Riverchase for competitions or a base.
Yes, you would be correct in your interpretation of my statement, based on what little information seems to be out there in the information tubes, but as I said, that direct association was apparently not continued past the Penn State scandal, except at the discretion of whomever was calling the shots. The team was based out of Riverchase as recently as 2017, according to Horsetalk Magazine.
Most colleges, ISHA is a club sport and often student organized/student run. I went to a fancy riding college where the school provided an entire equestrian center on site, but that is definitely not the norm. I also did some coursework at a large state university in the heart of horse country. I was involved in their ISHA team, too, which faded in and out of existence depending on student interest. The school did literally nothing except give us the okay to form the club. We found the barn with someone willing to coach, we paid for lessons, we got ourselves to shows, etc. Despite having access to some of the best trainers in the country, we rode at a local low level dressage barn with a sketchier reputation (in terms of quality) because it was the only place that could accommodate us.
The situation is similar for the ISHA team at the local college where I live now. It is student-run and bounces around the different local barns with school horses depending on who knows who. I think every local trainer has been their coach for some period of time.
GMU may have nothing to do with the operations of the club and may not even grasp the complaint.
As for him working as an adjunct/instructor, they also may not have a policy against past charges given that it is at the university level where you are instructing adults. I can’t really speak to that. But in a past life, I was involved with hiring adjuncts every semester for a community college and we were usually thrilled if we could find a warm body with the credentials required by our accreditors! Bonus if they actually turned out to be good at their job! If they weren’t, we moved on to the next warm body. I recall some sort of background check, but I don’t remember ever not hiring for a temporary position because of a bad background check…
Not the first time he’s had a mass exodus of boarders, either. They put up with his crap for awhile, then finally get fed up and go.
I know there were boarders that found their entire month’s worth of Smartpaks in the dumpster, not fed and not even opened.
He would bill the boarders for the barn farrier each month but never actually pay the farrier. He went through a bunch of them until he couldn’t get a decent one to show up.
He is also notorious for charging for worming each month, but the horses never actually get wormed. He just pockets the money. I bought a horse from one of his boarders. That horse had the highest worm load my vet had ever seen and the previous owner swore that he was wormed every month because she paid for it. He preys on the ignorance of owners.
Also not the first time he’s stiffed boarders on their security deposit, either. He spends the money as soon as it’s in his hot greasy hands.
Thank you for that information. It’s good to know that IEA is up on the situation, and will disallow the participation of Safe Sport banned/suspended persons. :yes:
I am unfortunately, but not surprisingly, ignorant about the workings of the IEA.
If the IEA has a news letter or handbook, or other communication that you disseminate to students and parents, I hope the inclusion of Safe Sport guidelines, or (at the least) the inclusion of the link to
(or a copy of ) the USEF banned/suspended list is included in the IEA literature.
I love the “we should move forward and not use it for acts in the past” comment. So, if you abused someone last year, last decade, that’s ok, as long as you don’t get caught again? WTF?
That’s the thing I continue to hear from people. I was at a meeting today where someone said that something had happened to her at a barn when she was a child, but it hadn’t ruined her life and after all, she didn’t think we should go back to the past like that and why didn’t people just report to the police at the time.
I was amazed at how little empathy she seemed to have: “It didn’t wreck my life, so why can’t everybody just get over it” was kind of what she was saying. And then of course, several people chimed in with the usual bit about how awful it was to go back to a single incident 50 years ago for George. Sigh.
