AAU ousts Robert Dodd accused of drugs,assault

Memphis, Tennessee , Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)
Two former basketball players allege Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) CEO and coach Robert “Bobby” Dodd assaulted and molested them as teens in hotel rooms, on road trips years ago, in the 1980s. Memphis police are investigating. The AAU is headquartered in Orlando, Florida
Robert “Bobby” Dodd age 63, has been CEO of AAU for over two decades and is a former YMCA director. It is said, Dodd was dismissed from the AAU in November 2011.

One accuser said, "Must have been 3 in the morning. I was dead asleep and I don't remember anything but waking up and he has his, he's trying to put his hand in my boxer shorts. And I jumped up straight out of the bed and he's not there, but he's laying on the floor next to me down by the bed. And of course I was freaked out," he told ESPN.
Asked how Dodd could have entered the hotel room, West said, "He had a key. He always somehow had a key to whatever room I was in."
West said he tried to find ways to keep Dodd out of his hotel room when they were at out-of-town basketball tournaments.
"I was afraid to even fall asleep when he was around. And it got to where I would barricade my door, if I had a hotel room, I would take the table and chairs and I'd block it all against the door," he told ESPN. "And it got to where he couldn't assault me, but he would push his way in the room and then end up, I'd see, I wouldn't see him, I would hear him, he'd lay at the floor of the bed masturbating. And you just lay there horrified. But you don't know what to do. What, are you going to blow the lid off of this at 14 years? All you want to do is pretend it didn't happen and not address it at all. You want to hide and bury it."
Asked what evidence he has, West said, "I'm the evidence. I'm not trying to gain anything out of it. It's not like, 'Oh, wow, here, let me go on national TV and humiliate myself and possibly embarrass my family and stuff so I can tell everybody this deep, dark secret that I've had.' The guy shouldn't be around kids any more."
West said Dodd abused him or tried to abuse him six times.

Another accuser, whom ESPN did not identify, said Dodd gave him alcohol before taking him to a bedroom and touching him inappropriately.
"We were at his house and he provided us with some alcohol and, looking back on it now, I know for a fact that he put something in my, my drink that night, because the last thing that I can really remember was him carrying me into his bedroom and I can remember him, you know, touching me in ways that I, I didn't uh, I didn't want another man touching me," the accuser said.

It is not surprising that pedophiles go to where needy or confused kids are located - single parents, child care, schools, sports and correctional institutions. Pedophiles can often get the victims to keep quiet by providing the kids with drugs, alcohol, pornography or other things the kids do not want to discuss. All of society benefits when the victims can discuss the issues, seek counseling, and help get these pedophiles out of our systems and institutions.

The victims may deal with related issues for their entire lives. They may have problems with police and other authority figures. They may also become abusers and pedophiles. We need to identify those victims in need of psychological help.

Rasheed Davis and Lawrence Taylor rape and pedophiles

Gloria Allred is representing Christine (Christina) Fierro, now age 18 in a civil suit against Lawrence Taylor now age 52 for a 2010 rape of Fierro in 2010. Former New York Giants player Lawrence Taylor was slammed today with a federal sex trafficking lawsuit filed by Christina Fierro, who was forced to prostitute herself to Taylor in a New York motel room in 2010. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan, alleges Taylor "forced himself" on a "slight teenager who was visibly injured, shaken and crying, but expressly told him she did not want to engage in sex and tried to push his enormous body off hers.".  After she was raped she was given $300. Pimp Rasheed Davis, also a former player, forced Fierro into the situation. Rasheed Davis is currently in the New York jail.
Here is what the girl had to say to the New York Post in 2010:

“I told him (Rasheed Davis) I wasn’t going to the hotel, and he said, ‘You’re f- – -ing this up, it’s $300,” the frightened Bronx girl, 16, said Rasheed Davis, 36, screamed at her early Thursday (2010).

“He hit me in the face, so I covered my face,” said Fierro.

“He told me to tell him my name is Carmen and I’m 19 years old,” she said. “He told me repeatedly and I had to repeat it back to him.”

When she arrived at hotel in Suffern, “the lights were off and [Taylor] didn’t see my face was bruised,” the girl recounted. “Lawrence Taylor asked me my age and I told him I was 19.”

She said she feared for her life if she didn’t have sex with Taylor. Taylor is age 51.

“If I didn’t go through with it, [Lawrence Taylor] would’ve called Rasheed Davis and there would have been consequences,” she said. “God knows what would’ve happened if I didn’t go through with it.”

On the drive back to The Bronx, the girl frantically text-messaged her uncle about the alleged assault and prostitution.

After getting the message, her uncle called 911 and cops were waiting at Rasheed Davis’ home to arrest him.

Lawrence Taylor was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999 and competed in ABC's "Dancing With the Stars." He had a highly publicized struggle with drug addiction and has had multiple legal run-ins since retiring from football. Based on the rape charges, Nutrisystem ended its endorsement deal with Taylor. In 2001, Taylor was convicted of possessing drug paraphernalia in New Jersey. The conviction stemmed from the September 1998 discovery in a hotel room of a butane torch and other materials commonly used to smoke crack.In 1996 and 1997, Lawrence Taylor was arrested in South Carolina and Florida on drug charges. In those cases, he either admitted his guilt or agreed to enter a pretrial intervention program. In 2000, Lawrence Taylor drew five years of federal probation for filing false tax returns and for tax evasion.

Police said the girl was reported missing by her family in March 2010 and had been staying with a 36-year-old parolee, Rasheed Davis, in the Bronx. The two met a few weeks ago at a Bronx bus stop, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said.

"Rasheed Davis chats her up. She explains she doesn't have a place to stay. Davis provides one," police said. Davis then forced her to perform sexual favors for others, police said.

Early Thursday morning, Davis punched and kicked her, drove her to the hotel against her will and told her she had to have sex with Lawrence Taylor, police said. When she refused, Rasheed Davis handed her over to Lawrence Taylor, who sexually assaulted her. Lawrence Taylor paid her $300, which she gave to Rasheed Davis, her pimp, police said.

At some point, the girl sent text messages to her uncle spelling out what was happening. The uncle then went to the NYPD, Browne said.

Rasheed Davis was arrested on charges of unlawful imprisonment, assault and endangering the welfare of a child. He was sentenced in April 1994 to eight to 25 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter. He was paroled in March 2008.

Lawrence Taylor, 52, was initially criminally charged with statutory rape in the incident, but pleaded guilty in March 2011  to sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute. Lawrence Taylor, who now lives in Florida, was sentenced to six years probation.

The pimp, convicted killer Rasheed Davis, in August was sentenced to seven years in prison by a federal judge for the criminal case.

Stop child sex slavery

The child sex trade is a huge problem in the US and abroad. No country is immune. In the US kids are often lured via the internet or corrupted neighborhood kids and adults. Girls and boys are bullied or lured with promises of love, money or other things. Usually the kids who are targeted are from broken homes and demonstrate emotional problems. The child may have already suffered issues of abandonment, neglect, low self-esteem, and physical and/or emotional abuse. The child may be in the foster care system or even disabled. She or he may be looking for food, money, self-worth, and shelter.
What the child finds is more violence and abuse when the man takes the child to a hotel room where he/she is beaten, sedated and confused with drugs and raped.
Then child is then sold via the Internet, transported to various areas around the country and the world, and sold to other pedophiles.
This is sex slavery and it even happens to adults, especially people who audition to be models.
Of note, churches often send their pedophile priests to foreign countries, like Africa, where they can escape American laws and continue to interact with children under the guise of priest.
I even heard of one country that incarcerated an American in a dungeon-like prison. The American was surprised to find he could buy a child in the prison to be his slave. He bought a child.
We must protect our children from these abusers of children.

Drugs a danger and pollutant

The US war on terror is now increasingly focused on water and underwater invasions. Not only are terrorists being viewed as a threat, but drug traffickers, long users of boats for trafficking, are also using submarines in murky water to access the states. So, the submarines are quiet and not visible by regular observation. While these drugs are moving in our waters, they are also polluting everyone's water. Whenever the traffickers dump their tons of cargo for security reasons, our fish and water become polluted and anyone using them will be exposed.
While we spend billions to decrease US drug activity, the users of these drugs must also be held accountable for the huge financial and societal costs. Without user demand, the drug-related problems would decrease.

Pharmacies put squeeze on poor - more to come

Pharmaceutical companies were given a huge advantage in the asthma market to push OTC asthma medications off the shelves. The FDA stated the OTC asthma inhalers would no longer be sold - they are now considered dangerous - and all inhalers must be by prescription. The OTC inhales cost around $20 - the prescription inhalers cost around $60 to $80 plus the cost of a medical visit and any tests the doctor/nurse/PA may order. As the pharmacies agrued in front of congress last week for the approval of a large pharmaceutical merger, it is clear the pharmacies, as they attempt to have more say in medical care by assuming some clinic responsibilities, are also trying to sharply increase corporate profits at the expense of those who can least pay the inflated prices and are just struggling to live. The merger, if it goes through, will also push out smaller pharmacies, who may be ensuring the contaminated meds from abroad do not reach American consumers, and give large corporate pharmacies access to almost everybody's medical information.