Has anyone heard of a letter that supposedly went out to all the Chicagoland Club Directors telling them to disaccociate themselves fro RB? I heard that Nancy Hodshead-Maker sent it out.
Example of email sent:
Allow me to introduce myself; I’m an Olympic champion from the 1984 Games in swimming, and now a civil rights lawyer running Champion Women. We provide legal advocacy for girls and women in sports.
We are writing to you today to ask the Volleyball Clubs of the Chicago Metropolitan Area to disassociate from Rick Butler. Rick Butler has now been banned for life from USA Volleyball for the second time, explicitly for the sexual abuse of minor girls he coached. Also, he has been stripped of his membership and banned for life from the Amateur Athletics Union and indefinitely suspended by the Junior Volleyball Association. We've provided more than enough original evidence for you to independently conclude that he should not be coaching or around your students.
www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/01/10/us/ap-vol-usa-volleyball-butler.html Attached you’ll find:
1) A letter asking you to disassociate from Rick Butler; USA Volleyball has twice imposed a lifetime ban from coaching volleyball for sexually abusing his minor athletes.
2) The AAU’s public statement, banning Rick Butler from coaching.
3) The Junior Volleyball Association’s statement, indefinitely suspending Rick Butler.
4) A 2018 USA Volleyball media statement concerning Rick Butler and his actions.
5) The transcript of Rick Butler’s USA Volleyball hearing. It is public; it is being widely shared on social media.
6) The decision in the Dept. of Children and Family Services, where the judge found Rick Butler was “not credible.”
7) The letter to the victims, requiring their silence after Rick Butler’s first lifetime ban.
8) The USOC due process requirements used in the Rick Butler hearing.
9) The Change.org petition directed towards the AAU with over 3900 signatures, asking the AAU to honor USA Volleyball’s lifetime ban.
www.change.org/p/aau-uphold-zero-tolerance-for-sex-abuse-ban-rick-butler-from-coaching-volleyball?recruiter=727989578&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition10) 2015 ESPN Outside the Lines feature that describes the 1995 hearing and how he has managed to continue to coach.
11) Cynthia Hanson, “Sex, Lies, and Volleyball”
www.cynthiahanson.com/pdf/sexlies_volleyball.pdf (1996)
12) Heather Crawford, Melissa Guz, “Out of Bounds; a local volleyball coach’s fight to get abuser banned from coaching” First Coast News, (2007)
www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/florida/out-of-bounds-a-local-volleyball-coachs-fight-to-get-accused-abuser-banned-from-coaching-1/43925983313) David Whitley, “At Orlando tournament, AAU turns blind eye to volleyball coach who was banned for life” Orlando Sentinel, (2017)
www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/david-whitley/os-sp-aau-volleyball-david-whitley-0621-story.html14) Jon Siedel, Michael O’Brien, Four-part series about Rick Butler, Chicago Sun-Times, December, 2017.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/emergency-hearing-youth-volleyball-coach-rick-butler-new-claims-sexual-abuse/15) AP/ NY Times, USA Volleyball Coach Rick Butler Banned for Life for Abuse, Jan. 10, 2018;
www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/01/10/us/ap-vol-usa-volleyball-butler.html We have quite a bit more information; please let me know if any of it would be helpful in making your determination.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Warm regards,
Nancy Hogshead-Makar, J.D.
Chief Executive Officer
904-307-4293 -c
904-384-8484 -o
@hogshead3au - Twitter / Skype
Hogshead@ChampionWomen.org
www.ChampionWomen.org