Because Penn State enabled a child abuser, I again have to sit through a 3 hour presentation to detect child abuse and how to report it. why Can’t they just make it one slide. If a grown man is showering with a young boy and you see something sexual then call the police immediately. Do not go to a football coach. If you are a football coach and somebody says something then you call the police immediately
Recognizing child abuse
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I had to deal with a young adult grooming young boys in a sports club I was president of. We think we intervened before anyone was hurt. The police could do nothing as he had not actually broken any laws yet. They were supportive and concerned but could not otherwise do anything. Knowing what to look for and what to do is a bit more complicated than simply calling the police. This guy has tried to rejoin the sports club a few times since we banned him. He threatened legal action, but we acted according to legal advice, so never amounted to anything. We chose to err on the side of protecting youth players and would always do so.
I took a lot of heat from people in the club as this guy could spout nonsense and we could not respond due to privacy laws. Seriously, pay attention in those trainings. You could save someone from a life altering ordeal.
I took a lot of heat from people in the club as this guy could spout nonsense and we could not respond due to privacy laws. Seriously, pay attention in those trainings. You could save someone from a life altering ordeal.
Oh I don’t think the issue is the topic
The format of the ce is bad and too timely
And it’s required for every license renewal and the content doesn’t change
This is a situation in which the mob is useful. Take the scumbag out to the wilderness and do what you gotta do.
An adult grooming a kid? What was he doing? Grooming multiple young boys at one time is usually not their style. They focus on the vulnerable ones.
I have been through extensive training on this issue so I can have a medical license. It is a part of medical school. I also work in emergency medicine so I deal with this issue quite frequently. The state CE program was their response to the Penn State sexual abuse. it’s death by PowerPoint and really doesn’t provide me with anything over what I already know
I have been through extensive training on this issue so I can have a medical license. It is a part of medical school. I also work in emergency medicine so I deal with this issue quite frequently. The state CE program was their response to the Penn State sexual abuse. it’s death by PowerPoint and really doesn’t provide me with anything over what I already know
It's like the DIVERSITY TRAINING BULLSH!T. I'm glad the Trump Administration stopped it! In the federal government, they had us repeat it every FCKN year! I'm OK with taking it ONCE, ONCE IN A LIFETIME, then NEVER AGAIN! But every year is BS.
If anything, your post history suggests that maybe monthly or even weekly (daily?) training should be mandatory.
Why? I change nothing about my beliefs and behavior anyways after ignoring and laughing at the training. It would be better that I spend my time doing my actual job.
i wonder what drug deal was done behind the scenes with the kickbacks so a company can facilitate these trainings. This stuff is making somebody a bunch of money
But it's not. The government doesn't spend very much on that stuff. It's a commodity because a lot of businesses use it, too.
We investigated a single complaint, but then it came out that he had similar behaviors towards a few others in the past and in the interim.
What he did was a number of things. He befriended the kid acting as an unofficial "coach". He would go to the ice rink stick and puck sessions and teach the young players some stickhandling (pun not intended) and even get them to refer to him as "coach". (He was not a coach) He would then direct additional attention to a few. The one we investigated, he gave the kid (12 years old) an electronic device with porn loaded on it and saved porn web-links. He told the boy "do not tell your parents". He then used the device to message him late at night and they messaged about rating the videos. Then he started to drive him home from school (without the parents knowing). He met up with him away from the rink on a few occasions too, and provided him with gifts. He was using the fake persona of "coach" to gain trust, and even some of the parents of these kids helped enable him by encouraging him. These parents were quite vocal and protective of this guy as we ran through our process as they had been duped and had no idea (and still actually have no idea). We could not share our evidence, so these parents made out the board of the club to be the bad guys.
We hired an attorney specialising in family law to advise us. It is quite scary at how little you can actually do until someone really gets hurt. We expelled him from the sports club for serious misconduct, but we were unsuccessful at getting him trespassed from the rink. I still see him there at the public sessions "coaching".
He appealed the expulsion, and had one of the duped parents sit in at the hearing as his "support person". The new evidence for us to consider was a letter from the police stating that he had not been charged with any crime. We already knew that and had considered in the first instance. This did give us the opportunity to ensure that someone else saw this evidence and this parent was ghost-white when he saw what was on this device. His kid was hanging out with the guy prior to that. The parent was pretty quiet on this front thereafter.
Had the parents of this 12 year old not found this device and brought this to our attention, I feel pretty confident that something really bad would have happened there. That's all. Sounds like your training session does suck. As an ED doc, I'm sure you see the after effects of stuff like this all too frequently and would never minimise it.
wow. All it takes is for one person to stand up and do something about it. I commend you
He posed as a doctor and a wilderness expert. Behind the facade was an accused child molester.
Boy Scouts bought it. So did Young Marines. Until a decades’ worth of child abuse allegations left them washing their hands of him.
www.usatoday.com
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