If he'd gone to the authorities instead of the college, the police most likely would have ignored it, or, at best, documented it and let it lay. Secondhand accounts don't hold up in court (except in VERY rare occasions) and the police wouldn't have had the evidence needed to convict the offender.
What SHOULD have happened is that the person who actually witnessed the alleged abuse should have gone directly to the police, immediately, and kept the coach out of it until after it was reported to the proper authorities.
Honestly, I don't see what more the coach could have done that would have had any lasting effect.
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Date: 14 Nov 2011 13:47 (UTC)What SHOULD have happened is that the person who actually witnessed the alleged abuse should have gone directly to the police, immediately, and kept the coach out of it until after it was reported to the proper authorities.
Honestly, I don't see what more the coach could have done that would have had any lasting effect.