He says Mainwaring once "tried a bad touch on me" during a post-workout massage, at which point Stephens cut the cord. "Look, you can go talk to him if you want.". Camp Greylock is a boys' summer camp located in Becket, Massachusetts, United States. From 1955-1971 Greylock was owned and operated by Naomi Levine. He details the impact Mainwaring has had on his life. He's a serial child molester, and he molested me when I was at UCLA. "You're deluded. I remember getting emotional and saying, 'When is this going to stop? I'm calling you to see if you repented for molesting young men and boys. Early on June 19, Los Angeles police arrested Mainwaring on one felony count of sexual battery by fraud, punishable by up to four years in prison. What the stranger didn't know was that Benjamin himself had been molested by Mainwaring -- only nine hours earlier. The spokesperson says the school wasn't made aware of any allegations against Mainwaring until this past February, at which point law enforcement authorities were notified and the school began a review of Mainwaring's time on campus. IT'S EARLY EVENING, June 27, 2016, and Mainwaring is giving Benjamin a ride to his student apartment after a workout at Drake Stadium. De Santo was a niche celebrity. Finally, she is beginning to get some answers. The report arrived just six months before expiration of California's three-year statute of limitations on sexual battery by fraud -- touching the genitals under false pretenses. We were all used and abused by Conrad. Naomi Levine in an undated photo. He pleaded not guilty and was released on bail a few days later. Mainwaring refused to answer questions and did not respond to several subsequent interview attempts. Finally, Benjamin goes to bed. It's a friend -- a reporter -- following up on an earlier conversation: "That guy you told me about -- the one you said molested your brother back in the '70s what's his name again?" I think that one was in Mexico. Allinson had been introduced to the coach the previous summer and had trained with him thereafter. The first mention linking Mainwaring to abuse wouldn't appear on the blog until 2013. By then, the summer of 1978, Mainwaring was well on his way to establishing a dramatic legacy at Greylock. The former UCLA runner allegedly molested in 2016 contacts an ESPN reporter and later meets with LAPD investigators. Many had endured pervasive shame. After Nosenko had finished his workout one day, Conrad Mainwaring walked up and introduced himself as "Coach Av." In the summer of 1980, Victor was approaching his 18th birthday -- barely out of high school -- when he told his mother he had been sexually abused by Mainwaring repeatedly over several summers. 67% of employees would recommend working at Camp Greylock for Boys to a friend and 66% have a positive outlook for the business. Nor did the stranger realize that he had just pulled a thread that would begin unraveling the mystery and misdeeds of Conrad Mainwaring, a former Olympian who coached Olympic-level athletes, including a two-time gold medalist. He enjoyed the training regimen, and Mainwaring was clearly legit: To Nosenko's surprise, the squad's standout member was Felix Sanchez, the Dominican American hurdler and then-Olympic hopeful. ", "I trusted this guy, I thought it was OK, but what he did to me f---ed me up for the next 10 years.". 's note: Emphasis is in the original.] Andrew Zenoff says his older brother, Victor, spun into a life of drugs and risky behavior after his alleged abuse by Conrad Mainwaring. That was true for David Allinson, a track star with Olympic ambitions in 1979. Fourteen men say they were molested during this time. Now, they had found a support system. A school spokesperson confirmed that Mainwaring worked for two years in the admissions department but provided no details about why he left. He would leap next to a soccer goal and touch his foot to the crossbar. ", Mainwaring says that he has been in therapy for years, that he left education, that he wasn't sexually abusive anymore. Michael Waxman, Robert Bender and Vernon Sharples describe the lasting damage they say they suffered because of Mainwaring. Still, there wasn't much the detectives could do. Mainwaring's athletic accomplishments interested Sharples, but he was most taken by the attention the track star heaped on him at the store. And then one day, Conrad Mainwaring walked into the store where Sharples worked, MC Sports. Senior campers said they were expected to read the New York Times in full each Sunday in order . Many campers grew up to become leaders in law, business and medicine while proudly calling themselves former Greylock Girls., Regardless of age, she wanted these girls to know you can do anything and be anything, Ms. Kiddon, her daughter, said. ON THE WESTERN edge of Massachusetts, in the heart of the Berkshire Mountains, is a summer camp where boys have gone to play for more than a century. Good luck processing and understanding how much you've hurt young men.". Mainwaring asked. "Like cults use the Bible, he used it in a way that he knew had pull with me. In 1980, just shy of his 18th birthday, Victor Zenoff told his mother he'd been sexually abused by Conrad Mainwaring years earlier. By 15, he was consumed by drugs and risky behavior, and the family had moved to the West Coast. Outside the Lines begins investigating Mainwaring, eventually identifying 41 alleged victims. ", After Victor died, Nisha says, she vowed to her then-husband and others that she would go after "this son of a bitch, wherever he is.". I think a lot of that has to do with society being more open to what is and is not a crime when it comes to all spectrums of sexual assault.". "You are a false teacher," Brian says. In the decade after his departure from USC, Mainwaring kept an even lower profile than he had in the past -- back when he was telling Vernon Sharples to keep his whereabouts a secret. There's not gonna be any more boys. Robert Druger says he was sexually abused by Mainwaring while he attended high school in Syracuse, New York, and later when he was at Syracuse University. Additional timeline photos provided by Vernon Sharples, Robert Bender, Getty Images, Rachel Bujalski, Susannah Ireland, LAPD. Last summer over sixty boys were Seniors at Greylock, and the friendships are the reason . Greylock offers a structured program that combines instruction and game play in . Even if the campers knew he had finished last in his preliminary heats in the 400- and 110-meter hurdles, it didn't seem to matter. Is that when it happened to you? Everything I was doing was about control.". The death was confirmed by her daughter, Joan Kiddon. Mainwaring works at Camp Greylock for Boys. Later, as an adult, Allinson says he contemplated suicide. Zenoff, now 54, recounts the tragically short life of his older brother, Victor: They grew up on the East Coast in the 1970s. ", "It was a rape of the brain in that sense because it wasn't just an abuse of the body," she says. He says his parents left him alone in Antigua until he was 9 and that "some sort of molestation took place. These were things, Mainwaring said, that would dampen Bender's development as an athlete. BRIAN WAS AT his office in southern Connecticut early one morning in April 2013. Finally, the man turns and approaches the coach, raising his cellphone to record the encounter. After talking with reporters, Benjamin learned about the LAPD investigation and contacted officers, sharing his own experience. But at least two things Mainwaring told Max were lies. It was pitch-black, surrounded by trees. ", "Do you remember me? It was overcast, and the rush of Exposition Boulevard traffic was audible from a hundred yards off. All of the cases were too old. Nobody," says Bender, now 57. The Official Camp Greylock Instagram Celebrating 106 years of the #G-G-R-E-Y-L-O-C-C-K!. It's Brian. I knew I deserved to be there because I was as smart as, and often smarter than, everyone else in the room, she once said. Nisha is a psychotherapist, with a specialty in grief and marriage counseling. Sanchez says he was never touched inappropriately by Mainwaring and wasn't aware of any allegations against his former coach until three years ago. the reporter asks. ", "I was abused for several years by this despicable predator. Calling it "massage [would] really wind him up," Sharples says. The next day, Victor left on a camping trip to California's Yosemite National Park with a friend he had met at a Grateful Dead show. "I couldn't even think. In 1963 Ms. Levine helped in the writing of The Issue Is Silence, a speech expressing solidarity with the civil rights movement, which Rabbi Joachim Prinz delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial moments before the Rev. Those men would operate Camp Greylock for Boys for the next 50 years, until it was sold again in 1994 to a new generation of former Greylock employees. Greylock is a proud member of the Berkshire Summer Camp Association. Several Syracuse squad members would visit him at Colgate, and new members joined. Ms. Levine, second from left, in the 1950s at an American Jewish Congress Womens Division event, with Eleanor Roosevelt at her left. Her condo overlooks Richardson Bay in affluent Tiburon. Ms. Levine in 2004, the year she retired from N.Y.U. Michael Waxman, shown near his home in Maine, says he was only 13 when Mainwaring molested him at Camp Greylock. The department declined comment to Outside the Lines, citing confidentiality. Again, secrecy was mandatory. Ms. Levine joined the American Jewish Congress in the 1950s as a lawyer on its Commission on Law and Social Action. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Joan Kiddon. Victor was the youngest, just 12. CAMP GREYLOCK FOR GIRLS 1921-1971. So, UCLA police hear another account about Mainwaring. Ring once, hang up. EARLY THE NEXT morning, June 28, 2016, Mainwaring picks up Benjamin outside his apartment en route to Drake, as if nothing unusual happened the night before. How do you do it? In an effort both to learn about Mainwaring's family history and to address his claims of abuse as a boy in Antigua, Outside the Lines reached out to his brother in England and sister in New Zealand. If you are the victim of sexual assault, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800-656-4673 or go to https://www.rainn.org, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. Nosenko ultimately would be one of Sanchez's training partners in the lead-up to the 2004 Olympics in Athens. PRICE: $11,850. It's tranquil and picturesque -- a stark contrast to the dark hole in her life all these years later. Outside the Lines found no evidence of Mainwaring having trouble with the law in the United Kingdom, though criminal records there are not available to the public. He planned to write about the trip on his blog, where he called himself the Renaissance Guy. And so it was that Brian found himself in Mainwaring's office one day, challenged to attain greatness through a mental strength and therapy session. Outside the Lines was unable to review the investigative files, which are protected under state law. Other comments trickled in over the next few years, until the fall of 2017, when the #MeToo movement was changing the national dialogue on sexual abuse and more people found De Santo's blog and shared their experiences. Max asks whether the sexual part of the "training" served any legitimate purpose. Listen: The Running Man, a four-episode podcast, "No, he can f--- himself," comes the reply. Summer Communication. "There were several times when I watched him give my peers hand jobs," he says. Allinson, now a corporate executive living with his wife and children in Northern California, says after that night, "I knew my life had completely changed. He wrote on the blog that he and his mother traveled to England, where the De Santo family had lived for a year when Tym was young. Sharples says this happened a few times before the sessions went to a new level: "He would rub my penis over my shorts until I ejaculated. And soon, he would be in America to stay. Mainwaring worked with hundreds of boys at Camp Greylock, as shown in this photo from a camp yearbook. He has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of sexual battery by fraud and is free on bail pending the outcome of his case. Rachel Bujalski for ESPN. He and his mop of blond hair appeared on the inaugural season of HGTV's "Design Star," where he got his nickname because of his varied talents: designer, singer-songwriter, sculptor, photographer, mountain biker, former professional ski racer. In total, three men told Outside the Lines they were sexually abused by Mainwaring while he was at Caltech. "My Brest Friend," he called his invention. Says the man, who also earned a law degree from UCLA: "It didn't even cross my mind that this was the same thing, that he was doing this for his own pleasure.". That influenced my thinking., Naomi Levine, Lawyer Who Helped Transform N.Y.U., Dies at 97, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/nyregion/naomi-levine-dead.html. Sitting on the back deck of his home outside Syracuse last fall, Druger says the full gravity of the abuse didn't hit him until the past few years. Eventually, Bender says, the training turned physical, with the coach conducting "physiotherapy" that led to inappropriate touching. ROSENBAUMBEATRICE M., on Nov.24, 2009, age 95. Although O'Boyle's confrontation led to a small victory for those who have accused Mainwaring, none of them believed he would give up coaching. "Oh, this is a good one. Now an eye surgeon and aikido instructor in Syracuse, Druger, 56, says he visited Mainwaring for "sessions" in dorms where Mainwaring worked. The campus sits on 300 acres of land. But according to Benjamin, officers suggest they can't bring charges because he is an adult. Look in that camera. He smiled a lot. How many boys have you molested in your life? He was happy. By the end of September 1987, Mainwaring had, indeed, landed at Caltech. ", But things soon unraveled for Mainwaring at Caltech. Tym De Santo's random blog post about a vacation improbably became a hub for Mainwaring's alleged victims. De Santo described a "truly magical evening" visit to Cambridge, where he "sat in front of a long row of colleges, sipping on a cappuccino" under the "deepest indigo blue" sky he had ever seen. And then third, you've got to come to church with me once.". ", More than 40 years later, Sharples can't recall how long the alleged abuse lasted. Mainwaring allegedly molests a runner at his student apartment on the UCLA campus. In addition to her daughter, Ms. Levine is survived by two granddaughters and a great-granddaughter. In fact, to this day, some of the men report feeling wildly conflicted -- angry and tortured by the abuse yet convinced that some of their achievements would not have been possible without him. With a new deputy, there was someone else to handle middle-of-the-night calls to the dorms. "Coach Avondale," Benjamin says. Here's how he remembers it: After a few rings, Mainwaring, now 61, picks up. We excel at helping boys make friends with one another and develop the bonds that can lead to lifelong relationships. Brian knows this isn't true because of what he's learned through the network. The coach preached sobriety and celibacy, citing booze and girls as obstacles to athletic success. That something happened with my cousins. Mainwaring meets Vernon Sharples (above), his earliest known accuser, in a Leicester sporting goods store. Mainwaring, in a purple shirt under a black jacket, avoids eye contact. About Greylock. Over the past several months of training with Mainwaring, Benjamin has become a believer. He says he and a counselor he's been seeing "are pretty sure I experienced an event while I was young. His latest squad was a mix of students attending the university and younger athletes he had met at local track meets while working as a counselor at a nearby high school. It is unclear how many new squad members Mainwaring began training in the 1990s. ROBERT DRUGER, THE Syracuse eye surgeon recruited to Mainwaring's squad while in high school, was at a bar mitzvah in late 2018 when he met a federal prosecutor who had handled sexual abuse cases. A handful of the men say they tried to bring Mainwaring to justice in England and the United States, only to be met with shrugs or hindered by statutes of limitations. He points off camera toward what appear to be some of his squad members and suggests he is going to time them. But he was neither a professor nor, formally, a counselor. "If you're going to get to college and be a decathlete or get to the Olympics, you need flexibility, so we need to do this drill tonight," the coach said. It is impossible to overstate Naomis contribution to the transformation of N.Y.U., John Sexton, the universitys president from 2002 to 2015, said in a phone interview. "Naturally I expect you to keep my address to yourself [Ed. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Several staff members from that time period and one former camper who is now a staffer told Outside the Lines they couldn't recall anyone matching Mainwaring's description. Outside the Lines spoke with several other men who say they trained with Mainwaring and had only positive experiences. "He got me and my good friend at Camp Greylock in 1977. I have flashes of it." You can contact us year round or request info online. A few days later, officers knocked on Nisha Zenoff's front door. It wouldn't be easy. Mainwaring said he noticed that Nosenko seemed serious about training, and he invited the young man to join his current squad. The fieldwork, Mainwaring told the teenager, involved masturbation habits. As he stretches, Benjamin (who asked that his real name not be used) sees a figure walking stiffly and deliberately toward him across the infield. Mainwaring tries to walk away a couple of times, with the aid of a walker he has used since having hip surgery the year before. The university manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and it is perennially viewed as one of the nation's top tech schools -- the MIT of the West. While the LAPD was building its case against Mainwaring, Outside the Lines spotted him at a local track meet and learned he was still coaching young athletes at Rancho Cienega Sports Complex, a public facility in South Los Angeles. Photos by Rachel Bujalski and Susannah Ireland (Sharples portrait) for ESPN. Citizens in Camp Greylock, Massachusetts should be aware of illegal activities surrounding police brutality among their police departments and take actions against them. You're not doing this anymore. In the lawsuit and in . He framed it so well as training like, this is training, it's not sex.". Collectively, they rendered a detailed and consistent picture of a con man so skilled that he often conducted the abuse without his victims even realizing they were used as tools of his perversion. He goes directly to UCLA police, where he tells an officer everything, from the alleged abuse a decade ago to the confrontation that day and Mainwaring hitting him with the umbrella. The world's greatest track athletes have run here through the years, in front of thousands of cheering fans. had a meager endowment and, with its crumbling campus buildings and drab dormitories, was struggling to attract students. Sharples files a police statement in England, alleging he was abused in the 1970s. He had that dimple. Nosenko says he never discussed this part of the training with Sanchez or other members of the squad. Camp Greylock spreads across 300 acres near the town of Becket, a bucolic setting of top-flight sports facilities -- 15 tennis courts, five baseball fields, three soccer fields, two 100-yard flag football fields, an in-line hockey rink, a nine-hole golf course, a climbing wall, a zip line, a lake and a weight room -- and cabins nestled amid abundant forest. De Santo's talk of England, it turns out, had triggered Stephens to remember he had seen Mainwaring several years earlier working with a group of young men at UCLA's Drake Stadium. The Camp Greylock Directors, Staff, Alumni, and Community mourn the passing of one of its most beloved and longest serving Directors who passed away February 19, 2002 at his home in New York City . before enrolling at Columbia Law School, where she became an editor of the Law Review. He refused comment, other than to accuse the reporter of harassment. Brian wants clarity. The alleged crimes occurred in the mid-to-late 1970s, when Mainwaring worked as a counselor at Camp Greylock for Boys, a summer sports camp in the Berkshires. Marching across the infield, he can see young men stretching, and he spots Mainwaring. Benjamin looks up, bewildered. He never replied. "He just kept on saying that I'm this amazing guy kind of showering me with compliments," Sharples says. Founded in 1916, it is one of the oldest privately owned, all-boys camps in the nation. "I have heard a few comments since 2016, [but] to tell the truth, I didn't believe them," he says, adding that he was "fully surprised by the accusations." Mainwaring calls him later that day, he says, and insists O'Boyle is a disgruntled former athlete. She's fighting back tears. Mainwaring works in the admissions office at Colgate University. IN THE SUMMER of 1975, the textile hub of Leicester, England, a gloomy, downtrodden city 100 miles north of London, had little to offer 15-year-old Vernon Sharples. Mainwaring helps coach Felix Sanchez to Olympic gold in the 400m hurdles in Athens. You're not doing this anymore. Above all else, he just wanted to make the UCLA team. Sharples doesn't remember why Mainwaring stopped, but he says, "When it did stop, I remember feeling almost rejected.". Mainwaring competes for Antigua-Barbuda in the 110m and 400m hurdles during the Montreal Summer Olympics. In the spring of 1990, 18 months after he was fired from Caltech, Mainwaring was hired by the University of Southern California to work in its Disability Services and Programs office. With cameras rolling and the reporter asking about the many men who accused him of sexual abuse, Mainwaring beelined across the parking lot. Eventually, O'Boyle is done. He takes out a note pad and starts writing. If he doesn't comply, the letter says, he'll be subject to arrest. And O'Boyle makes the 45-minute drive to UCLA. Always.". Mainwaring is shown at a Los Angeles-area track earlier this year. In an effort to increase their chances of getting a felony filed, the detectives sought to show prosecutors that the alleged offense was part of a pattern -- in this case dating back to the 1970s. Benjamin, in a state of fatigue and despair, goes back to his apartment. You don't want anybody to know, and he relies on that horror that his victim will be equally invested in keeping it a secret as he wants it to be a secret. Parents. He has to do something. If Mainwaring was still involved with boys or young men, it would be a matter for the LAPD. ", "I don't know how to answer that question. Benjamin tries to focus on his workout, but it's no use. "I'm more sorry that you turned around and perpetrated it on others. the man says. Camp Clothier. DRAKE STADIUM'S NINE dark azure lanes make up one of the most recognizable surfaces in track. Greylock is the Northeast's preeminent residential summer sports camp for boys. His name was Conrad Mainwaring. "I ask you to forgive me," Mainwaring says. I mean, that's pretty strong because I don't think he's killed anybody. In recent years, several men banded together to raise $13,000 to help pay for Mainwaring's hip replacement. "Do you train with this guy?" Founded in 1916, it is one of the oldest privately owned, all-boys camps in the nation. Mainwaring sprang up, grabbed his walker and bolted, moving surprisingly fast for a 67-year-old man with hip problems. After a Title IX investigation spurred by O'Boyle, UCLA bans Mainwaring from Drake Stadium and the university. Around the same time, about 30 miles away, in the L.A. suburb of Agoura Hills, 31-year-old UCLA alum David O'Boyle is steeling himself for the next morning. as I requested in my last letter," he wrote, adding, "I do not wish anyone at all to know this." "I looked at him like a Christian disciple because he would intersperse his weird, whacked-out teaching with Bible aphorisms here and there," says Brian, who has a master's degree from Yale Divinity School. Additional research by Adrian Gatton in London. Divided equally between junior and senior campers, Greylock features a varied program of arts and adventure, land sports, and watersports. Mainwaring was an avid reader and classical music aficionado who seemed, at least to a kid from Leicester, to know everything. One former Caltech student, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, told Outside the Lines that Mainwaring quickly earned a reputation for providing informal couples counseling to students and, inevitably, urging the couples to break up. School district officials told Outside the Lines they found no records that Mainwaring was ever a staff member or a sanctioned volunteer. He was nervous and called out for Mainwaring. Some old members continued to visit him and stay in contact, but Outside the Lines spoke with only one accuser who says he met the coach during that time. Camp History. Her mother was a hospital secretary, her father a salesman. Camp Greylock, located in Becket, is described on the camp's website as "the Northeast's preeminent traditional residential summer camp for boys, entering its 100th summer on Center Lake, in . We offer a structured program and an unparalleled facility with nearly 300 acres on a beautiful lakefront campus. Any sexual contact, they say, would be seen as consensual. But within weeks of Brian arriving at Colgate, Mainwaring was leaving for his next job. Ms. Levine became its chief fund-raiser. The freshman was struck by how Mainwaring would "alternate between being really smiley, laughy and exuberant," then turn on this "dead-on kind of expression [that looked] like he's kind of burrowing in to you psychologically, he's penetrating you psychologically. Family Camp - Father/Son Weekend. David Allinson (not pictured) says Mainwaring promised him greatness if he followed his direction. Everybody seemed to like him, and he excelled in most sports -- basketball, baseball, tennis, soccer. Seven men now say he molested them there, including Michael Waxman (above, right), shown with the coach in a yearbook image. You weren't following Christ.". "You're going to f---ing jail!" ", Allinson says the abuse continued and eventually "started happening in the bunks, while the campers were out playing maybe a dozen times. Ability to do so is an indication of high testosterone, Mainwaring says. It reads, in part: "We recently received several complaints that you utilized as an alleged training strategy inappropriate massaging of the genital region of male athletes," which complainants consider "an assault." Rachel Bujalski for ESPN. Outside the Lines spoke with 14 men who trained under Mainwaring at Drake Stadium or in the Los Angeles area from the mid-1990s to 2016 and say they were abused near campus, usually at Mainwaring's apartment. She contributed to the civil rights movement as a lawyer, then found a second career as chief fund-raiser at New York University. Born in Antigua as Conrad Avondale Montgomery Mainwarren. -- and at other times seething over the memory of a woman who supposedly betrayed him. What did you do?" He remembers it this way: Soon after Allinson arrived in Becket, Mainwaring summoned him to the soccer field to work on a special athletic feat the coach liked to show off. Brian was 18 when he arrived at Colgate in the fall of 1987, a jazz guitarist and successful high school athlete who had struggled with motivation. As startling as the sheer number of accusations was the fact that for years Mainwaring -- who rejected repeated interview requests -- remained a cipher, a man with almost no public footprint who was able to stay one step ahead of the allegations and the law.
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