The United States Tennis Association is the subject of a new lawsuit, with a former player alleging the U.S.T.A. failed to stop a coach arrested for sexually abusing him and other minors.
wasdecadesAccording to transcripts from the trial in 2010, one student testified that Burgos had put a sleeping mask over his head and eyes, supposedly to help him relax, before massaging him and touching his penis.
Yet jurors could not reach a verdict. A mistrial was declared. And Burgos, a gay man who had accused his critics of homophobia, became emboldened, prosecutors now say, doubling down on his efforts to become one of the region’s leading figures in youth tennis.In 2019, he was sentenced to 255 years in prison for 60 counts of child molestation, after a former student and
victim, Stevie Gould, secretly recorded him admitting to sexually abusing a minor. But Gould says the U.should have taken action against Burgos, particularly since he was accused so many times before his sentencing. As theThere is no public record of the U.S.T.A. having taken any action against Burgos. Despite being a convicted sex offender, he is not listed in the database of the
, an independent body created to track abusive coaches, trainers and others with access to athletes...contended that the U.S.T.A. “dropped the ball, because they made it appear like this was a safe place for the kids to go. Shouldn’t there have been more oversight from the U.S.T.A. about him interacting with children?”U.S.T.A. reportedly continued to give him travel grants, and did not speak out against him. Victims say they even reported him.
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