The administration really has to be grossly incompetent to allow victim 1 to still attend school and run for her kidnapper’s wife (who admitted to having knowledge of his affairs with underage girls)
There has been very credible, well substantiated accusations of intolerable behavior. This after the coach admitted very similar behavior already. The only responsible thing for the university to do is to cut all ties with the Johnsons and any athlete that continues to be coached by them.
Yep, I agree that HU must cut all ties with the Johnsons and athletes that would continue to be coached by them. I also agree with Hewhoextrapolates' comment that the admin had to be "grossly incompetent". I'm sure I'll still get 10+ downvotes from sheeple trying to stick it to me (lol).
That is a crazy tweet. Either they don't care, or they're not worried, or they're going for the Troll-Tweet. Maybe all three.
Nick Johnson has deserved to burn for years. Made my first year on @OregonTCElite absolutely awful. All of this is so bad, it’s wild there hasn’t been more about this. I can’t emphasize this enough, fuck this guy. And you too @JohnsonRunning.
did the recruit he assaulted on a fake trip end up going to Huntington? Did she say it wasn’t against her will and she told the police what they wanted to hear?
It’s called grooming, underage people can’t give consent. Let alone when it’s a person of power. Nick the pervert groomed victim 1 to this point of brainwashing. Lauren knew and did nothing to stop. Point blank.
Anyone have boots on the ground in Huntington or see any instagram stories. Did the team have an official practice today? I feel like that would give us a pretty clear idea on how the school is handling this right now.
This hits close to home. I am good friends with a girl who was the victim of something like this, and there are so so many parallels. She was sexually involved with a much older trainer in her (non running) sport when she was 16. I don't want to go into details, but reading the reports for the Nick Johnson case it all sounds eerily familiar. She never came forward about it for fear of the fallout, and it wasn't until several years later that her parents found out. Even during the trial she had a hard time seeing herself as a victim, because from her perspective it was all choices that she made and she had been in love with this trainer. It's so tragic seeing how the whole ordeal has affected her- attempted suicide, a lot of mental health issues, and generally seeming stunted maturity-wise. They eventually settled in court, and I remember by the end of it my friend didn't even care what happened, she just wanted the case to be over so she could stop reliving it and go on with trying to live a normal life. And it's crazy, this trainer had a girlfriend throughout this whole ordeal who knew everything and did nothing. As far as I know they were still together at the time of the trial. F ck anyone who uses their positions of power for things like this. In my opinion Nick Johnson deserves to spend the rest of his life in jail.
Curtis Hines ~ who is a teacher at Huntington North High School and was named in the lawsuit ran with the team today for their workout. Seems appropriate…
From the police report and regarding photos obtained from Victim 1’s Google Docs via warrant:
“Any image depicting who I knew to be Mr. Johnson was also saved to the “Photos from Victim 1’s Google Photos” folder with many of these images depicting a white in color puppy. Image 09b… depicts a selfie by Mr. Johnson who is shirtless in the image. IMG_5741 depicts HU letterhead with a handwritten note to Victim 1 from Mr. Johnson stating, “If you sign with Huntington University, all of your wildest hopes and dreams will come true.”
What a sick creep. This sounds like it’s straight out of the predator playbook.