Sunday, March 07, 2021

A pedophile disguised as a swim coach. By the time he was discovered, there was too much investiment in his fame to bring about justice.

March 11, 2020
By Alexandra Starr

...The OC Register (click here) reported that officials and attorneys shut down the probe before the FBI agent could interview several key witnesses, according to documents obtained by the Southern California News Group (SCNG)....

...Kukors Smith was in middle school (click here) when Sean Hutchinson relocated to Seattle, Washington to coach at the KING Aquatic Club, where she was already breaking records in her age group. She says Hutchinson, who was 18 years her senior, quickly drew her into an abusive relationship.

"He started grooming me when I was 13," she said on NBC's Today show in 2018. "The sexual abuse began [when I was] 15, 16. He had been controlling me since I was a kid."

Kukors Smith says after she turned 18, Hutchinson had sex with her, while he was still her coach. Hutchinson became an Olympic coach in 2008 and Kukors Smith made the Olympic team four years later....