Absolutely it is. I was taught from a very young age what was and was not appropriate and what was to happen if anything not appropriate transpired. I sleep like someone who doesn’t have to worry about what a ridiculous sports group will make mandatory next.
Wow…SMH…you have no clue at all…Maybe they did come forward at the first opportunity they had, just maybe they consider Safe Sport to be that first opportunity…did you ever think of that?
Sssshhhh she’s leaving…
Eric Lamaze wrote a lengthy comment On Candice King’s fb post. He stated he is very upset about a 51 yr ago accusation & continues on to say he hopes people come to their senses, retract this band and apologize to George.
Really? Apologize?
How nice for you that no one molested you and put your precocity to the test. I’m thrilled that you are not part of horse sport. Since you are not, why do you feel the need to spread your disgusting opinions, about children who are victims of predatory adults, on this forum?
IOW why are you here? I’m sure there are plenty of like minded people who think children get what they deserve if they are unable to stop the person who is molesting them.
You won’t find them here.
I never said I wasn’t part of equestrian sports I am just not affiliated with USEF. I am choosing not to be a member of a group that has decided to go the way of judgments against anyone just because. To be able to list someone as banned without actual legal judgement proving they are deserving is ridiculous.
Good. Because if you are not affiliated with USEF than you are not someone we have to deal with.
I pity the people who are involved in your sport… So why are you here opining about safe sport, since safe sport rules do not apply to you?
Hoping that maybe someday some iota of the truth about the lack of true justice in the farce they call “safe sport” will soak in. Being able to accuse anyone of something that happened 50 years ago just shows how absurd it is. Statute of limitations is how long the actual proof is such a thing happening survives. Which is basically the length of a shower barring any audio or video evidence. No one is safe if hearsay is acceptable proof.
ITT: People who don’t understand how private organizations work. The USEF is a corporation. They don’t need a legal judgement to deplatform someone if they so choose.
You have obviously not bothered to read the safe sport guidelines and procedures. Come back when you have. You are making an idiot of yourself.
Surprises me not at all.
Why don’t you repeat the whole notion that the Safe Sport ban with respect to GM is because of hearsay and something from 50 years ago again?
Maybe if you repeat that a few more times, it will actually become true… and not just be a characterization of the complaints against him that came from GMs own PR team.
Additionally… why are you saying that “no one is safe if hearsay is acceptable proof.” After all - this whole Safe Sport legislation only applies to people who are USEF members. And you aren’t a USEF member.
So you have nothing to fear.
Rob Gage apparently had sent a letter to one of the underage girls where he admitted to the sexual contact. I am sure you would be surprised by all the possible ways there might be evidence of conduct, even conduct that happened 50 years ago at the young misguided age of 30. It might also turn out there is more contemporary evidence and/or conduct, because in cases like this there often is, and as there seems to have been with Rob Gage.
I can’t see any incentive for SafeSport to go after a powerful dude in an obscure sport if they don’t have a solid case. This won’t be an easy week at the office for them.
I wonder if you can name one person with a lifetime SafeSport ban in any sport that fits this description. I’ll wait.
More to the point, it’s federal law, not a USEF whim, and it applies pretty much to any sport group that holds competitions in multiple states. The NGBs are first, but insurance companies are already working to make all their clients compliant.
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This is just what I want my sport to be known for - a grassroots effort to dismantle protection for child athletes from sexual predation, led by a sex offender.
In other news, a rather interesting public post on Kristin Medall Simpson-Ferguson Hardin’s page in the last few hours.
Didn’t Vanessa marry Buddy Brown? You know, the guy who owned Streetwise. There isn’t an abundance of moral character in a lot of these folks.
At the time of Streetwise’s demise, Buddy was married to Donna Brown. Donna pled guilty. Buddy was not implicated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_murders#Donna_Brown <–whole thing is highly recommended reading