Her Tennis Coach Abused Her. Could the Sport Have Prevented It?

Standing in her pajamas in entrance of the door of her lodge room, she was terrified as Haultain entered. She had been watching her favourite film, “The Sound of Music.” She knew what he was going to do and felt powerless to cease it. Then, she detailed to prosecutors and in her lawsuit, he penetrated her along with his palms.

The subsequent day, she might barely get a ball over the internet throughout the event. He berated her and instructed her to maneuver on from what had occurred.

She returned to San Diego damaged. Days later, again in Kansas City, unable to sleep or eat or do schoolwork and dreading an upcoming journey with Haultain to a event in Portugal, Jensen answered sure when her oldest sister requested if her coach had abused her. Her sister then instructed her dad and mom.

Jensen instantly stopped coaching with Haultain. Her dad and mom inspired her to maintain taking part in, to not let Haultain steal her love for the recreation. They weren’t conscious of the full extent of the abuse as a result of that they had not pressed her for particulars. So they tried to reduce the trauma by coping with it privately, she mentioned.

Fred Jensen now realizes what a horrible mistake that was, for his daughter and for the security of different youngsters. His intuition instructed him to guard his daughter’s anonymity, to attempt to, in his phrases, “coach her through it,” “engineer her return to normalcy” and save her from the blame and victimization that so many survivors of sexual assault expertise. That was the precise reverse of what his daughter wanted, which was disclosure, the involvement of the police and, finally, justice.

“Predators count on that you are not going to pursue something like this,” he mentioned.

In the summer time of 2010, nonetheless, Jensen instructed a instructor what Haultain had finished to her. The instructor was obligated to tell the police, and he did.

Jensen understands now that Haultain basically brainwashed her, that he was excellent at getting what he needed, as so many predators are.