General Article We don't listen to children when it comes to abuse in sport

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Sky Sports presenter Charlie Webster has said she revealed details about sexual abuse by her coach when she was young in order to ‘break the taboo about abuse as a whole’.

There are certainly issues within sport where too often, poor practice and abuse is tolerated. Who can forget the unravelling of the systematic abuse and cover up of football coach Jerry Sandusky at Penn State and his subsequent jailing for 30 years in 2012?

A series of high-profile cases, including a British Olympic swim...

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