Referee Told Jordan About Sexual Misconduct, Was Shrugged Off

[discobot]

A referee is alleging that serial sexual assailant Dr. Richard Strauss masturbated in front of him in the showers of Ohio State University after a match. The referee allegedly immediately told then-assistant coach Jim Jordan, who shrugged him off.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1261057

[mattfrommich]

Just shrugged and ignored depraved & criminal behavior? Makes sense then that he’d be the perfect guy to defend Trump.

[schmed]

[occamscoin]

State crimes, so no matter how much Gym Jordan gibbers and capers in public hearings, ain’t no pardon gonna apply.

[mattinpa]

If you haven’t met a suckup like Jordan, the kind who’s a stoolie for the prison guards, the one who not only won’t challenge authority on a matter of principle but helps to further the abuse he ought to challenge, you’re lucky. You find them in any large organization where abuse is occurring, in Auschwitz, the Catholic Church, the offices of any good-sized business, damn near any group of more than a few dozen people. I was taught to have contempt for them, but too many people are taught to go along to get along.

[bankerpup]

There was a Boy Scout leader in my hometown who allegedly sexually abused over 100 kids. No one can do that over the years and completely avoid complaints.

One gets away with it because the complaints get shrugged off or the complainers were demonized. That’s what happened in my hometown.

Jim Jordan knew.

[paulw]

Jordan is a bully wannabe. And: you have to wonder about the whole effing culture there. (Of course, wrestling has an enormous closeted homo-erotic component to it, which fuels non-consensual kinks.)

[ralph_vonholst]

He came.
He saw.
“Meh.”

[ralph_vonholst]

@paulw

Of course, wrestling has an enormous closeted homo-erotic component to it, which fuels non-consensual kinks.)

Perhaps it’s not just wrestling.

[phlebas]

Bad news for everyone who assumed Jordan’s only problem was breathtaking stupidity. Now ya gotta work in criminal negligence.

[ralph_vonholst]

Main site page appears to be down again.

[castor_troy]

Perfect imagery that the face that the Republicans want to put on the impeachment debate is with an individual who is–at best-- an enabler of rape.

[ronbyers]

This story sounds like a political hit job. I have no reason to believe Jordan was unaware of Strauss’s activities, I believe the timing of the story is suspect.

[castor_troy]

O/T: These people really are deplorable…

“I rarely get emotional, if ever,” Trump Jr. wrote in his new book, “Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.” “Yet, as we drove past the rows of white grave markers, in the gravity of the moment, I had a deep sense of the importance of the presidency and a love of our country.”

He also had another revelation as he watched his father standing in front of the tomb, surrounded by more than 400,000 graves, listening to the Army Band bugler playing taps: The Trump family had already suffered, he recalled thinking, and this was only the beginning.

“In that moment, I also thought of all the attacks we’d already suffered as a family, and about all the sacrifices we’d have to make to help my father succeed — voluntarily giving up a huge chunk of our business and all international deals to avoid the appearance that we were ‘profiting off the office,’” Trump Jr. wrote.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/07/visit-arlington-cemetery-reminded-donald-trump-jr-all-his-familys-sacrifices-he-writes/

[1gg]

I get the feeiing that Trump has pulled this move before!!

[castor_troy]

@ronbyers

This story sounds like a political hit job…I believe the timing of the story is suspect.

Naw, this is just a companion to a big investigation by the WaPo which broke yesterday. When any of the big folk break a story, all the competition runs to see if there’s an angle they can catch.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/11/07/with-ohio-state-facing-latest-sex-abuse-suit-attorney-says-may-report-barely-scratches-surface/

[dr_coyote]

The stupid posturing shirtsleeved motherfucker coulda just maintained his cozy lazy do-nothing gig in Congress, but he had to take rubles, and now he’s all-in with the Traitor-in-Chief, and the enhanced scrutiny is going to destroy him.

#ETTD

[mattinpa]

@ralph_vonholst

Main site page appears to be down again.

Back up. It’s kind of flickering off and on. Maybe it needs to be clapped for, like Tinker Bell.

[dangoodbar]

I was a wrestler and, especially my high school coach, had there been a single indication let alone a complaint about anyone molesting one of his wrestlers he would have filed a criminal complaint and that person would have been forever barred from the locker room.

[docd]

I expect that the families of the soldiers in the tomb would have traded "a huge chunk of our business and all international deals to avoid the appearance that we were ‘profiting off the office,’” in a heartbeat so that they could have their loved one back.
I can’t wait for these despicable people to learn that some things can’t be bought.