Monday, July 15, 2013

$1.3M settlement with victim of swim coach’s sex abuse

The North Whidbey Park and Recreation District has settled a lawsuit for $1.3 million, its third since last year involving women who were molested in the mid-1990s by their swim coach, serial pedophile Andrew King.
A fourth woman filed a lawsuit against the district on July 1, seeking damages for the abuse she allegedly suffered as a member of the Aquajets, an Oak Harbor swim team King coached between 1994 and 1997, according to attorney Lincoln Beauregard.
In June 2012, the district agreed to a $1.5 million settlement for a then-29-year-old King County woman. She reported the abuse to Oak Harbor police in 2000, but no charges were filed because a detective determined there wasn’t enough evidence to proceed.
In October, another woman was awarded a $2.1 million settlement from the district for sexual abuse committed by King. The district’s insurance company paid all three settlements, Beauregard said.  (more...)

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