Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions of sexual assault.
An Onondaga County judge denied Syracuse University’s motions to dismiss two lawsuits involving sexual abuse allegations against former Olympic athlete and student Conrad Mainwaring.
The two lawsuits, filed separately in the Onondaga County Supreme Court in February 2020, allege that SU “knowingly and willingly failed” to conduct proper investigations into credible claims that Mainwaring was abusing young boys in his dorm, where he worked as a resident adviser.
In one case, SU tried to seek dismissal by arguing that the plaintiff, who was 17 years old when the abuse occurred in 1982, could not be protected by the Child Victim Act because he had reached the age of consent an argument the judge rejected and called “misplaced.”
Berkshire DA Announces Arraignment of Mainwaring
Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington announced today that the Berkshire Superior Court arraigned Conrad Mainwaring on 12 counts of indecent assault and battery according to the DA s office.
Troopers assigned to the Berkshire State Police Detective Unit attached to Harrington’s office completed the rendition of Mainwaring from California late last week in preparation for today’s appearance.
Mainwaring had not guilty pleas entered on his behalf on the charges. Judge John Agostini set bail at $200,000 with conditions that Mainwaring have no contact with children under the age of 16, surrender his passport, confirm whereabouts with probation, and waive rendition.
A former Olympian and longtime track coach has pleaded not guilty and been ordered held on $200,000 bail on charges that he sexually molested boys while working at a sports camp in western Massachusetts in the 1970s.
Conrad Mainwaring, who was a hurdler for Antigua and Barbuda in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, was arraigned Tuesday in Berkshire Superior Court on nine counts of indecent assault and battery on a child over 14 and three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, according to a statement from the office of District Attorney Andrea Harrington.
Mainwaring, a 69-year-old Los Angeles resident and United Kingdom national, molested campers from 1975 to 1979 while working as a counselor at Camp Greylock in Becket, prosecutors alleged.
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Mainwaring Arraigned on Indecent Assault and Battery Charges
Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington announced Tuesday that the Berkshire Superior Court arraigned Conrad Mainwaring on 12 counts of indecent assault and battery.
Troopers assigned to the Berkshire State Police Detective Unit attached to Harrington’s office completed the rendition of Mainwaring from California late last week in preparation for today’s appearance.
Mainwaring had not guilty pleas entered on his behalf on the charges. Judge John Agostini set bail at $200,000 with conditions that Mainwaring have no contact with children under the age of 16, surrender his passport, confirm whereabouts with probation and waive rendition.