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US Figure Skating Pays $1.45M To End Sex Abuse Suit
Law360 (January 15, 2021, 5:23 PM EST) A former skater has reached a $1.45 million settlement with the U.S. Figure Skating Association after alleging in a lawsuit the organization did not protect him from a coach who sexually abused him as a minor, an attorney for the skater told Law360 on Friday.
Adam Schmidt, 36, is a former member of the U.S. National Figure Skating Team and alleged in a 2019 suit filed in California state court that his former coach, Richard Callaghan, sexually abused him between the ages of 14 and 16 while U.S. Figure Skating did nothing to stop it even though it had been alerted.
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Today is Friday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2021. There are 357 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 8, 1998, Ramzi Yousef (RAHM’-zee YOO’-sef), the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced in New York to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On this date:
In 1815, the last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having gotten word of the signing of a peace treaty.
In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for lasting peace after World War I. Mississippi became the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which established Prohibition.
By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Friday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2021. There are 357 days left in the year. Todayís Highlight in Hist