These stories represent systemic failure.
We don't want to trot out survivors to tell the awful, embarrassing things that Ryan and I had to say today. We don't want any more people to have to do that. We want the stories to represent information that will inform how our system is failing us, then go above that and see how the funding models and the relationships among all the different agencies are failing us. The agencies might be good, themselves, but there are individuals in them who....
I worked with a CEO whom I know hid a couple of abuse situations, over the years. They've all been around for 20 years or more. If you hide one thing in your past, then the safe sport stuff starts to surface, you're not saying anything. You're doing everything you can, from that day on, to cover up what happened and that you might have misjudged, instead of coming forward and saying, “You know what? I made a mistake five years ago. I let a guy off and I shouldn't have”, or, “I should have been harder with the sanction, and I wasn't.”