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Penn State, sexual assault, and the abuse of power (Prospect)

A lot has confused me about the outrage about Penn State's apparent cover-up
of its former assistant coach's serial molestation and assault of children.
Football is lousy with entitled rapists. No, I'm not saying that all football
players rape. But I am saying that we hear football-rapist stories regularly.
Most women know someone who was (or were themselves) groped, date-raped, or
sexually assaulted by a high school or college football player who thought he
owned whatever walked by. Consider what commentator Michele Weldon wrote in
the _Chicago Tribune_:

> In late October, a Texas youth football coach in Abilene was arrested on
charges of sexual assault with a child and two counts of indecency with a
child. This past summer, a Rhode Island youth football coach was arrested on
sexual assault and child molestation charges. A few weeks after that, an
Omaha, Neb., youth football league organizer was arrested on suspicion of
sexually assaulting a girl. A youth soccer coach from a south suburb of
Chicago was charged with sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy and possession of
child pornography. A Virginia youth basketball coach was charged with first-
degree statutory sex.

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> Similarly, coaches for basketball, cheerleading ...

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