Coach Conrad Avondale Mainwaring allegedly sexually molested scores of young men and boys over more than four decades. He might never have been arrested if not for two investigative journalists working for ESPN. OnlyAGameNPR
The police came for him on the morning of June 19.
"Andrew tells me that for many, many, years — going on four decades — his family has been keeping this secret about his brother Victor," Mike says."Victor was allegedly molested by a counselor who he worshiped during the mid- to late 1970s. And that counselor's name was Conrad Mainwaring." MK: Victor was 12 years old at Camp Greylock for Boys in Massachusetts. Conrad Mainwaring was a counselor there. Conrad was a — he was basically an idol at this camp. You know these guys all tell us that, you know, he would show up, and it was like a genie would appear. And all the kids would run and surround him. And they just sort of trailed him wherever he went.
MFW: He then went on this camping trip to Yosemite. And he ends up, few days later, basically falling off a 600 foot cliff while hiking. It's deemed a hiking accident. But I think both Andrew and Nisha felt — and feel to this day, as they talked about it — that there was no doubt in their minds that what had happened to Victor while with Mainwaring had a dramatic effect on who he became and on his behavior.
MFW: That's all it says. It's this very, sort of, innocuous and ambiguous post. Mainwaring was very much elusive figure on the web. Just a cipher — no presence. And these men who had had encounters with him began to Google him, wondering what had happened to him. And now there was a name on this blog. There's a sort of gathering place that emerges out of this really random, innocuous blog.KG: All right. So one of the men who found this blog is named David O'Boyle.
As it turns out, one of the athletes who he had warned had allegedly been abused just nine hours earlier. This guy had shown up in a little bit of a fog from the night before. He'd already texted a friend saying,"Something strange happened to me last night. I need to talk to you." And then all of a sudden, here's this guy from 10 years ago repeating stories about what happened to him that are essentially identical to what this young man had experienced just the night before.
MFW: So the biggest issue that the LAPD runs into is statute of limitations issues. That they have a number of victims like David O'Boyle and others who are in our story, who go back many, many, years. But the statute of limitations has long expired on them. They have no case that they can bring and are quite frustrated, frankly.
MK: Yeah, and a lot of these guys to this day credit Mainwaring for some of their life's accomplishments. You know we've had guys say,"Well, I wouldn't become a doctor if he didn't set me on that path." You hear guys saying,"You know, my times got better. His training really worked." That sort of thing. So it was to a lot of them, sort of, a deal with the devil that they'd made.
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