Grooming

  • How they manipulate everyone…

    A strangely repeated example of manipulation: An unsettling example of Buecher’s insidious “tactics” emerged in two eerily similar instances that occurred nearly two decades apart, revealing a disturbing pattern. In both cases, the victims shared physical characteristics, standing almost 6 feet tall with long, straight brown hair. It became abundantly clear that Buecher had a…

  • A campaign to support a career abuser

    The emails: In 2018, a girls swim coach was accused of sexual harassment be several current and former athletes under his control. Although the Orono School District had received complaints concerning this particular coach in the past, these complaints were finally reviewed as they should be under the districts commitment to Title IX. In line…

  • Would you hire this coach?

    In June of 2000, the Orono School District chose to hire a swim coach who had been terminated by the School Board of Roseville School District, ISD 623 in Minnesota just four months earlier for sexual abuse and harassment of his athletes. Notably, the lawsuit that he filed against his former employer, as excerpted below,…