Owner of Charleston’s Sun Elite Gymnastics temporarily barred from participating in USTTA/AAU events – –

Any updates on this story you published yet? Why not? Any arrest yet? Did you FOIA request and receive the alleged search warrant for Sun Elite gymnastics facility.. that you said you did already in a previous article? Just curious. Thanks John. Have a nice day.

Source: AAU Youth Protection Handbook

CONFIDENTIALITY  
“To the extent permitted by law, and as appropriate, the AAU will keep confidential the  complainant’s name on request, not make public the names of potential victims, the ACC– USED perpetrator or the people who made a report of child physical and sexual abuse to the authorities.”

According to The AAU Youth Protection Handbook Zack Lawson’ (the accused) name should not of been made public by AAU or it’s representatives. Question is, why was it made public?

Source: AAU Youth Protection Handbook

Quote: “LOCKER ROOMS AND CHANGING AREAS   The Amateur Athletic Union is concerned with locker room activities between minors, minors and 
adults, adults being alone with individual minors in locker rooms and changing areas, with non‐ official or non‐related adults having unsupervised access to minor participants, and with  inappropriate behavior among adults in locker rooms.   As part of the AAU’s commitment to safety, the AAU recommends its clubs to publish practices for 
locker rooms and changing areas. Clubs should include the following information in their Locker  Rooms and Changing Areas Guidelines: 
  Supervision. CLUB must have and describe its practices for supervising and monitoring 
locker rooms and changing areas  
 Prohibited Conduct. CLUB’s guidelines must prohibit hazing, bullying, harassment and other 
forms of misconduct, as set forth in the AAU’s Youth Protection Handbook”  
 “User of Recording Devices. CLUB’s guidelines must prohibit the use of a device’s recording 
capabilities, including voice recording, still cameras and video cameras  
 Meetings. For individual meetings with a minor participant and a coach in a locker room, 
the AAU recommends that at least one additional responsible adult be with the coach.    See Sample Guidelines in Appendix. “

Source: The AAU Youth Protection Handbook

Quote:”The AAU does not investigate suspicions or allegations of child physical or sexual abuse or  attempt to evaluate the credibility or validity of such allegations as a condition for reporting to  the appropriate law enforcement authorities.”

I ask Patti about this quote in the AAU Handbook in a text message I sent to her cell phone. She replied this back to me.

Quoted text message From Patti: ” I have no control of AAU. The USTA is just an allied member. Sorry.
Patti Lingenfelter
USTA/AAU “

She (Patti) is not “doing the investigation” on Zack, the ISP is doing it…so obviously she doesn’t know “how long it will take” ISP to compete it. She called me back again today and said she spoke with Angela Howser about her being misquoted and obviously because of that…Angela and Jack Houser made changes to the original story they published on Monday, but Patti told me after she read it again it still had inaccurate information (misquoted by her) within it and was planning on calling her back to ask her to change it again.

I just got a call back from Patty and she said she was misquoted in this story and would be submitting a comment to clarify her statement about this matter. I hope you publish this comment of hers about this story and don’t “selectively edit” this information she provides you. Thanks John.

You should clarify your headline of this story you published, obviously. It should say “Zac Lawson is banned from participating in this associations events temporarily (name here of the association).” Period. Not that Sun Elite gymnastics facility is banned from them, because they are not according to this association I confirmed today in a phone call to that association. The athletes of Sun Elite gymnastics facility are not banned and actually competed this past weekend at this association event according to this association they said in a phone call today. You should make a distinction between the owner(s) of the facility being investigated and the employees, coaches and athletes NOT being investigated. Please make sure you publish accurate information about this in the future. Thank you.

There are more falsehoods in this article than truths. Truth is that Zac Lawdon was in fact unable to attend the USTA National Qualifying meet this past weekend. Falsehood: his facility was unable to participate–don’t tell that to all of the state champions and state champion runner ups from Sun Elite this past weekend. Falsehood: gym was NEVEr padlocked by law enforcement OR ANYONE.

Charleston’s Sun Elite Gymnastics temporarily barred from participating in USTTA/AAU events – – http://t.co/USqZYAZDuQ via @ECWDogs

Charleston’s Sun Elite Gymnastics temporarily barred from participating in USTTA/AAU events – – http://t.co/39avrM2xNH