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After having a sexual relationship with her coach, young girl from UK, admits her career as triathlete ended. This is what Lara Gorman, now 24, shared in an interview a couple of days ago. She then suffered from depression after her coach, Dargie, then 33, finally decided to end up their two-year affair.<\/p>\n
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Back then, young triathlete was only 16 years old. Today, she has backed a themed campaign with the main intention to criminalize sex between under-aged athletes and their coaches. She added that her relationship with her coach should have been illegal back when it happened. Lara Gorman, now returned to her hometown, Stirlingshire, said she has been suffering from mental illness since then. Their relationship, according to her, ended two years after, when she was only 18.<\/p>\n
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“I lost a coach and a relationship, – she added, it was hard, plus he was in a position of trust and he abused that, and he’d been training me since I was 13 years old, which makes it worse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lara Gorman\u00a0added that today, feeling much better and being at a nice place, she feels confident enough to step out and make this story public.<\/p>\n
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According to Joanna Barrett, working in the Children\u2019s charity NSPCC, the case of Lara Gorman\u2019s was able to highlight a loophole in the current law.<\/p>\n
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“We want youth workers and sport coaches to be held to the same standard as social workers, teachers and doctors – so that a relationship with an under 18 in their care is considered an offence\u201d-she added.<\/p>\n
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\nKevin Ferrie: Lara Gorman\u2019s disturbing case demonstrates need to close legal loophole for under-18shttps:\/\/t.co\/VLp4HNvBQT<\/a><\/p>\n
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