Tag: Rick Curl
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Swim coach Rick Curl sentenced to seven years
Swim coach Rick Curl says to his victim: “Every day of my life has been spent thinking and feeling awful about my behavior.” See ABC7
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Swim Club Founder Rick Curl Sentenced to 7 Years
Read for instance NBC Washington The co-founder of a prominent Northern Virginia swim club was sentenced Thursday to serve seven years in prison for sexually abusing a student. Rick Curl pleaded guilty back in February to abusing Kelley Currin 30 years ago. Currin was a swimmer at the Curl-Burke Swim Club, which Curl co-founded. Curl…
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Ex-swim coach Rick Curl pleads guilty to sex abuse
Read The Washington Post Local former swim coach Rick Curl, whose namesake club became internationally renowned for its elite competitors, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of child sexual abuse involving one of his former swimmers, Kelley Currin, in the 1980s. Sentencing is set for May 23. Curl, 63, faces a maximum of 15 years in…
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Rick Curl agrees to plead guilty to child sex abuse
Read reachforthewall.com Longtime area swim coach Rick Curl, whose former athletes include world record breakers and Olympic gold medalists, has agreed to plead guilty to child sexual abuse at a hearing scheduled for Feb. 21 in Montgomery County Circuit Court. Curl, now 63, was charged in October after his former swim student, Kelley Currin, told…
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Rick Curl arrested, turned himself in
Longtime Montgomery County swim coach Rick Curl turned himself in to police Thursday morning to face one count of child abuse, authorities said, based on allegations that he had an ongoing sexual relationship with a young swimmer in the 1980s. Read The Washington Post via SCAQ Blog
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Rick Curl faces Maryland, possible Virginia arrest warrant
The State of Maryland has obtained an arrest warrant for Rick Curl for the crimes he committed against Kelley Currin, law enforcement sources today told ConcussionInc.net. In addition, prosecutors in Fairfax County, Virginia, are considering whether to act on the results of its own criminal investigation. The evidence includes a confession letter written by Curl…
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Sex abuse haunts former Olympic swim hopeful
Amid the excitement of the Olympic games, one former Olympic hopeful is speaking out on the darker side of youth sports. Kelley Currin says she was molested as a teen by Rick Curl, her former swim coach and founder of the prominent Curl-Burke Swim Club in the Washington, D.C. area. Read and listen to this…
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The Curl affair was “The Worst Kept Secret in Washingtonâ€
Read Caps & Goggles: This is all plenty scandalous and distasteful, but that’s not the worst of it. Here’s the part to make you gag: EVERYONE ALREADY KNEW. The worst part about this breaking news is that it’s not news at all – not to the swimmers and coaches and parents who grew up swimming…
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Curl-Burke founder Rick Curl under investigation for sex abuse in the 80s
USA Swimming has requested an emergency disciplinary hearing against prominent Washington area swimming coach Rick Curl for allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship with a teen swimmer and then paying her and her parents to keep quiet as part of a settlement. Kelley Currin, whose maiden name was Kelley Davies, said Curl had sexual relations…