Anne Elrod Whitney
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Anne Elrod Whitney
@AnneEWhitney
🗣🗯 Professor, writer, feminist, mom, human. Will fight for truth! And kids, teachers, books, justice. ❤️🔥 Writing and events: https://t.co/WVDn4eSHY4.










In 1983, Anne Whitney was 10 when she was sexually abused by a gymnastics coach at her Houston gym. This month, the coach, Mike Spiller, was arrested. He abused another child this spring in Boerne, TX. On a horrific abuse of power spanning decades: houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-n…

Texas gymnastics coach arrested, faces allegations of child sex abuse dating to 1983 in Houston area houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-n…





A Justice Department inspector general report found gross failures on the part of the FBI to properly investigate complaints from gymnasts, who told the bureau in 2015 about the abuse. And Merrick Garland this last summer REFUSED to prosecute the FBI agents who botched the case
