Steven Infante has been having sex with his gym students for at least 10 years, and it wasn’t a secret. He was expelled from USA Gymnastics in 1998 for that very reason, but I suppose talent is talent.
This part of the story got me:
Er, maybe, NO gym was a better alternative?
I dunno, it just seems there are so many dim bulbs out there… Odd how putting a lot of dim bulbs together makes things even dimmer.
From the linked story:
“The accuser told police that she became pregnant by Infante in her freshman year of college when she was 17, and that he waited until she was 18 before paying for her to get an abortion.”
Well, you don’t want to risk facilitating an abortion for a minor. What a responsible chap.
This reminds me of what happens when you elect people to the school board. Only then it’s more like putting a lot of reasonably bright people together and getting a blackout.
He hasn’t been convicted yet, has he? Do we “know” he’s a rapist until he’s convicted?
Maybe using the word rapists already is an early indictment, but the spirit of the OP stands. Here is a skeevey old man who was kicked out of the Olympics due to a history of having sex with students after a high school pulled their program from his gym they decided “oh well, I guess we will have to suffer the threat of a guy known to have sex with students.”
Now there’s evidence and witnesses that he was having sex with a student.
Oops.
Well, that would mean that those aspiring high school gymnasts don’t get to participate in gymnastics because of the actions of this fucktard, so in a relatively minor way, even more youngsters get screwed over by him.
Since there seems to be no good solution, I’m not going to second-guess the high school for picking what it thought was making the best of a bad situation.
I’m guessing, but since the story was referring to only the gymnasic team, and not the entire PE program for the school, that the school has a gym for general purposes. That suggests they subjected their students to a pedohphile (actually – is that the right term? – or do pedophiles prey on a younger age range?) rather than pony up the money for outfitting their gym with the all the necessary gear for a gymnastics team.
That would be a pretty funny quesion to put on a ballot – increase property taxes to buy more school equipment, or contract out to the local sexual predator, which wouldn’t require a tax increase. That would be a tough choice for me – not having any kids. :rolleyes:
In many heads, winning pretty much makes up for any sin. And all concerns are usually brushed aside as jealousy or spite because the people who raise concerns aren’t the stars of the teams or were put on lower division sqads.
There was an AAU basketball coach who had this sort of controversy swirling around him for years. He would watch movies in the hotel rooms of his players - in bed with a player with both under the covers - and many parents knew about it. But those who complained were accused of being spiteful because their kids weren’t getting enough playing time. He was finally arrested and hung himself in a jail cell.
Technically, he would be an ephebophile.
Thanks, I love learning new words. Not the kind of love like the love for teenage girls, though. 
But I don’t think this is the proper term. The defintion talks about it applying to men’s love for pubescent boys, and this guy’s issues seem to relate to pubescent girls.
I don’t read it quite as cut and dried. Note the first line of the article: Ephebophilia or Hebephilia has been defined as sexual attraction to adolescents. It appears that ephebophilia only applies if the attraction is exclusive, which is probably not the case here (that is, if a man is also attracted to adult women (or men). then he is not an ephebophile). The discussion of adolescent boys seems to relate specifically to pederasty.
Here’s a wiktionary definition.
I’m going to defend the school here. Do we know how involved Infante is in the day-to-day coaching at the gym? The article just says that he owns the gym. I would not be at all surprised if that particular gym is the only one in the area that has the specialized equipment needed for a gymnastics team, and it’s not in the least bit unusual for a team to use outside facilities (the swim and dive team at my school, for example, travels to a community pool to practice). However, the coaching and supervision is always done by a certified teacher (by law in Arizona, at least, although assistant coaches can be whomever. Don’t know what the deal is in Boston). So, I don’t know the whole details, but it seems to me that the high school just used the facilities, with no indication that Infante had any interaction with the kids at all - it certainly never says he was coaching them. The school wigged out and pulled the team out of those facilities, but realized there was literally nowhere else to practice.
I don’t see what the school did wrong here, honestly. They didn’t hire Infante to coach the kids, and I assume there are always going to be school-sanctioned coaches there to monitor and keep him the hell away from the girls. No problems here.
You certainly could be right. OTOH, he could be getting his rocks off just waching through an office wondow – which in itself is no crime – but he may have had a constant parade of his “type” of girl to possibly contact and “groom”.
In this age lawsuits, what school board in their right mind would let a child near this guy?