27-year old North Carolina swimming coach Aaron Philip Key was arrested this week on multiple sexual assault charges, according to the High Point, North Carolina Police Department.
On November 2, 2020, a juvenile victim reported to police that they were sexually assaulted across multiple years by their swim coach. After investigation, High Point Police say probable cause was developed to charge Key, of Raleigh, with 12 counts of Statutory Sex Offense with a Child by an Adult and six counts of Indecent Liberties with a Child.
On January 5, 2021, Key was arrested after turning himself in to police. He was taken to the Guilford County Jail and received a $250,000 secured bond.
A Linkedin page for an Aaron Key in Greenville, North Carolina with a photo that matches the police report lists among his jobs as the head coach of a swim team based at the High Point Elks Lodge. A newsletter sent out by the High Point Elks Lodge in the summer of 2016 indicated that Key was leaving the club after “17 great years with the team” as a swimmer and coach.
SwimSwam was unable to find any more recent coaching history for Key, and USA Swimming says that he was last a member in 2010.
Too bad for this dude that he wasn’t on the USA Swimming Board of Directors like Richard Shoulberg and Murray Stephens were. He would have gotten a deal and a good cover up…
Guerra, who are you? His Facebook profile is as fake as a bad recruiter’s sales pitch.
Seriously. Screw those guys. I can’t believe Shoulberg is still in the ASCA hall of fame. Disgusting
I do know I nitpick but “juvenile victim” is singular and then sentence switches to plural “they were sexually assaulted”.
“They” is an accepted singular pronoun to describe an individual of unknown gender or an individual who does not identify as either a “he” or a “she,” specifically. In 2017, the Associated Press even embraced it via their Stylebook.
It’s another wrinkle in an English language that is already full of them.
You tell ’em Braden!
I learned that from G Ryan.
“They” sounds like more than one person to me.
Agreed. It’s super confusing in these sorts of contexts. There needs to be a better way to talk about people of indeterminate gender.
its plural. just people trying to change standards vs. coming up with other terms such as Xe (a gender-neutral subject pronoun that can be used instead of he or she) which i accept more than trying to make ‘they’ singular.
It’s not that deep man the English language changes and evolves all the time with weird rules… and for what it’s worth I was taught that “they” could be used as unknown gender singular about 20 years ago
They is plural – basic English grammer! I’m fine if ungendered want to use a new term like xe, but don’t abuse the English language.
*grammar
The brilliant thing about the English language is that it’s the most open-source language on earth. It flexes, it adapts, it adopts – it’s really quite spectacular in that way. It’s one of the things that best differentiates English from, say, French, where in France there are whole committees dedicated to fighting an evolution to the language.
Whichever English teacher taught you that the language is rigid, unchanging, and has definite “rights and wrongs” did you a disservice. These are the same people who complain when new words, often coined by a younger generation, are added to the dictionary every year. Painfully, that strikes at the heart of the beauty of what English can be.
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How do you pronounce xe? And also why should non-binary people be forced to label themselves with terms forced upon them by gender-binary people?
Except they has been used as a singular pronoun for ppl of indeterminate gender for a really long time bruh
You’re so right. That’s why when a delivery person drops pizza off at your house you refer to them as they, or when reading something from an unknown author you refer to them as they, or when a swimmer gives you something from one of their parents, and you aren’t sure which one, you refer to them as they. They has always been used to refer to someone of indeterminate gender. Only recently have bigoted people been complaining about it.
I learnt something today thanks to Braden 🙂
You dun messed up A-Aron!
Oh my! I just spit out my water. Thanks for the laugh!
Key and Peele is awesome. But he did more than just mess up. He ruined his own life and others too. Sad world we live in.