This National Youth Sports Organization Is Failing to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse by Molly Hensley-Clancy, photography by Sarah Blesener for ProPublica Co-published with The Washington Post

This National Youth Sports Organization Is Failing to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse by Molly Hensley-Clancy, photography by Sarah Blesener for ProPublica Co-published with The Washington Post https://www.propublica.org/article/aau-youth-sports-sexual-abuse-failure-amateur-athletic-union?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature In today’s newsletter: The AAU is failing to protect children from sexual abuse; a Tennessee businessman’s juvenile prisons failed to report suspected abuse, former staff say; and how our testing unearthed toxic lead levels in yards already remediated by the EPA. More than a decade after the Amateur Athletic Union promised to implement “historic child protection measures,” it still hasn’t done so, leaving hundreds of thousands of kids at risk. Some AAU athletes have had devastating experiences.