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Disambiguation · Dec 12, 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...pt-secret-for-decades/?utm_term=.0ecde0df41ba

A prominent player came out in March to fight the children's coach who molested him and others.

Two weeks ago, retired British professional soccer player Andy Woodward stepped out from the shadows, telling the Guardian newspaper in an extensive interview that he was raped hundreds of times as a child by serial pedophile Barry Bennell, a former elite youth soccer coach who used his power and prestige in the sports world to lure, manipulate and sexually abuse his players decades ago.

The interview with the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/nov/16/andy-woodward

Bennell was sentenced to nine years in prison in 1998 after admitting 23 specimen charges of sexual offences against six boys aged nine to 15. Woodward was among the victims at Crewe and knows of other former pros who were targeted.

Woodward strongly suspects Bennell, who adopted the name Richard Jones and was living in Milton Keynes before his last prison sentence, colluded for a long time with at least one other paedophile who has never been detected. This, fundamentally, is one of the reasons why he hopes other victims will feel able to come forward. “I’m convinced there is an awful lot more to come out.

The WaPo article is a good summary

Disambiguation · Dec 12, 2016

It's compared to Jimmy Saville

http://www.dw.com/en/english-soccer-sex-abuse-crisis-grows/a-36599960

English soccer sex-abuse crisis grows
A hotline set up as England's football sex-abuse crisis grows has had over 860 calls in its first week. That's threefold more than in first three days of the helpline for victims of serial pedophile Jimmy Savile.

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