Players allege Tiffany Gordon, daughter of longtime Colton High School coach Harold Strauss, regularly abused them while she was athletic trainer.
“From the moment the District was presented with the allegations, we immediately took decisive action by placing the party in question on administrative leave, as well as contacting the Colton Police Department,” CJUSD spokesperson Katie Orlof said in a statement. “The District has made itself, and will continue to make itself, completely available to the Colton Police Department.
Alleged survivors must file civil suits within eight years of becoming an adult or three years from the date an adult survivor “discovers” or should have discovered they were sexually abused, under current California law.
Coaches, like players, even joked about Gordon’s sex abuse, the players said in interviews and court filings. The former players in interviews and the lawsuit also shine light on the still pervasive, if somewhat dwindling, cultural double standard of how the sexual abuse of underage males by females in positions of authority is viewed differently than men sexually abusing girls or boys.
“It really changed how we looked at sex,” said John Doe 7044. “To us, this is just like a sport, we’re not connecting, just trying to find this type of feeling.” “It’s not OK. It’s wrong. If I’m the is it OK if I do this to some girl at the school?” Doe 7045, who like five of the players is Black, continued. “No, they would put me under the jail.
“Historically, it has been easy for society to downplay the power of a female sex assault perpetrator over boys. In reality, we know the power of a female predator is particularly insidious and dangerous to children,” said Mike Reck, an attorney for the alleged survivors. “The alleged perpetrator here leveraged her position of power over these boys to choreograph her own depraved desires upon them. Not only did she count on the cultural pressure on teenage boys to never turn down sex, Ms.
Often those pins landed in places like New York, Baltimore, Kansas City and the NFL. Six players from Colton, a school with less than 2,000 students, were on NFL rosters during both the 2014 and 2015 seasons. A year later, 10 former Colton players were invited to NFL training camps. Colton’s 2005 roster included six future NFL players.
“If the genders were reversed, the response would be undoubtedly different,” said Jemma Dunn, an attorney for the alleged survivors. “This is not only unfair, but fails to recognize the damages caused and silences male survivors. These men were in their most formative adolescent years and should have been able to trust those in authority; both their trainer who, as an adult, took advantage of their adolescence, and the coaches and staff around them, who encouraged it.
“Very often the adults who sexually abuse high school kids are not preferential abusers. They’re opportunistic abusers. They just take advantage of whatever situation comes about.“ “Under the guise of providing medical treatment and physical therapy, Gordon took advantage of John Doe 7042 during treatments and sexually assaulted him by repeatedly brushing her hand against John Doe 7042’s groin and penis,” according to the lawsuit.“I was taken back by it because it was forward as hell,” the player said.
“As John Doe 7047 excelled in his athletic skills, John Doe 7047’s interactions with Gordon became more frequent,” the lawsuit said.” Gordon became increasingly flirtatious, displayed outward favoritism, started inappropriately touching and fondling John Doe 7047’s genitals on CJUSD property.” Later that season Gordon took Doe 7043 on a date to a local drive-in theater. She began kissing the player, who was 17 at the time, and then performed oral sex on him in the backseat of her car, according to the lawsuit.
Gordon responded by texting the player a nude photo of herself with the message that they needed “to take care of this” the next day, according to the lawsuit. “The focus was shifted from working out to trying to find places to have sex with Tiff,” Doe 7044 continued.
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