USSF’s Parlow Cone says additional instances have come ahead

U.S. Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone stated that further allegations of abuse have come to gentle for the reason that publication of the Yates report on Monday.

Parlow Cone made the disclosure of not less than three further instances in a pair of interviews with CNN. In accordance with CNN’s report, Parlow Cone did not present any further particulars however stated the instances have been handed on to the U.S. Middle for SafeSport.

“One of many nice issues to return out of this report is that it’s encouraging extra individuals to return ahead,” Parlow Cone stated throughout separate interviews with CNN’s Brianna Keilar on “New Day” and Amanda Davies on “World Sport.”

The investigation, which was a 12 months within the making and included interviews with 200 individuals, revealed that abuse and misconduct within the NWSL — together with verbal and emotional abuse and sexual misconduct — had change into systemic, spanning a number of groups, coaches and victims.

The report added that “Abuse within the NWSL is rooted in a deeper tradition in girls’s soccer, starting in youth leagues, that normalizes verbally abusive teaching and blurs boundaries between coaches and gamers.”

Whereas a tradition of silence and indifference permeated experiences of misconduct prior to now, Parlow Cone stated she hoped that individuals felt secure to return ahead and report situations of abuse, including: “We’re not going to have the ability to root it out except extra courageous individuals come ahead to inform us.”

Parlow Cone, a former U.S. worldwide, herself reported an incident of sexual harassment throughout her time as supervisor of the Portland Thorns.

She has stated she reported the incident when she was leaving the franchise.

“Society wants to alter as nicely, and evolve, and to make it safer for girls to return ahead to complain about this within the office or on a workforce,” she stated.

“That is going to be an extended course of. It isn’t going to be a fast repair.”