CNN is reporting on several former gymnasts who are speaking up.  They are speaking up on physical and sexual abuse from their ex-coach.  Do pedophiles use sports as a way to become physically close to their prey?

These now grown women say they were manipulated and coerced by their influential coach.  They are speaking about different incidents with Doug Boger.  In one incident the girl's parents wanted to "keep it quiet" after she was seen running naked from his bed.

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Author and Anti-pedophile activist Leeronnie Ogletree talks about his forthcoming book 'Major League Addiction' available for purchase on Amazon.com.

The book takes an inside look at baseball and exposes a side of the "National Pastime" that few have seen and even fewer really know about.

At the age of 10 Leeronnie Ogletree met Donald James Fitzpatrick in Winter Haven, Florida. Fitzpatrick was the clubhouse manager for the Boston Red Sox. Winter Haven was the Red Sox spring training home at the time. Fitzpatrick invited Ogletree to work in the Red Sox clubhouse. Soon after, he molested Ogletree.

The molestation went on for years, only ending when Ogletree became "too old" for Fitzpatrick's interests.

Ogletree became a greenskeeper for the Red Sox in Boston. Then he became involved with the team keep the players happy. Among his responsibilities was acquiring drugs for players. While engaging in the drug acquisitions Ogletree developed a "Major League Addiction" of his own.

Years later he gave up drugs, returning to Winter Haven and a life of seeming normalcy. Having built a life as a contractor with his children and their mother, disaster struck. He began having nightmares. Being free of the drugs allowed the memory of the abuse he had experienced to return into his consciousness with full force.

Returning to drug abuse resulted in several incarcerations. Eventually, it was a stint in drug treatment which led to the realization Ogletree had been suppressing Fitzpatrick's abuse. A 2003 trial resulted in Fitzpatrick being arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced. The sentence was exceptionally lenient. Fitzpatrick received a suspended sentence and probation. He died two years later.

Having confronted the reality of childhood sexual abuse he had survived became comforting. The more he told his story the more he gained peace with his past.

Ogletree began a one man protest to inform the public about the pedophiles which were hiding in plain sight. This began in September 2011. When the Penn State sex abuse scandal broke it put Ogletree in the spotlight. An article published on thepostgame.com highlighted similarities between what Ogletree experienced and the charges against former Penn State Assistant Football Coach Jerry Sandusky.

Since the article's posting, numerous others have revealed the abuse they were subjected to by Fitzpatrick, affectionately known in the Red Sox clubhouse as "Fitzy."

Being liberated from a shame which was not his own. Ogletree is on a mission to reveal what happened to him. Can the public stand this much truth?

My mugshot from 2005...the judge in this case violated me because I had been having too many visitors at my home.  This is the same judge who only sentenced child molester and the man who changed my life forever, Donald James Fitzpatrick, to 15 years 15 years' probation and a 10-year sus pended prison sentence in Polk County Circuit Court. 


http://florida.arrests.org/Arrests/Lee_Ogletree_3891003

Hold MLB accountable

The story of Leeronnie Ogletree is one that needs to be told.  It is time the events which took place in his life cease being ignored and people need to make themselves accountable.

There is  reality in baseball which is being ignored.  People are being portrayed as something other than what they really are.  It is time to let the truth be told.  Everything needs to be on the table.  There is a side to Major league baseball that it must be my destiny to tell about.  I lived it and saw it and now have to tell it to everyone I can.  Humans are flawed.  They have defects.  We must be able to see people as who they are.  We must be able to accept our defects and not attempt to conceal them.  I spent years hiding my shame with drugs.  Now I want to let others know that the most important thing they can do is tell the truth.  I was around someone who took advantage of the way major league baseball operates.  If it has done nothing to correct those flaws, then there are people who still can exploit those flaws today.  I have to make sure that does not happen.  Major League Baseball needs to be responsible for the children it attracts.

http://www.afro.com/sections/news/national/story.htm?storyid=73140

Charles Crawford talks about his life and dealing with being abused by Donald James Fitzpatrick

Charles Crawford talks about being abused by Donald James Fitzpatrick.  He is a hero just for telling his story.

Jimmy Church talks about the newest allegations against Donald James Fitzpatrick

Jimmy Church gives his take on the latest allegations against Donald James Fitzpatrick, late clubhouse manager for the Boston Red Sox.