ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) â€" Two former basketball players have indicted ex-Amateur Athletic Union boss Robert "Bobby" Dodd of molesting them as children, according to an ESPN report.
The AAU reliable late Friday that it is questioning a claims, that reportedly date from a 1980s. One of a players, 43-year-old Ralph West, told ESPN's "Outside a Lines" he was assaulted in Memphis in 1984.
Both West and a second unclear male pronounced news reports about a Penn State child sex abuse box stirred them to exclusively confront Dodd in November. The player, who spoke to ESPN on a condition of anonymity, pronounced he called Dodd on Nov. 11 and that Dodd apologized for a purported abuse. ESPN reliable an eight-minute call to Dodd by examining write records.
Memphis police pronounced in a matter that it had been contacted by a AAU and was looking into a allegations.
"The Memphis Police Department takes allegations of child passionate abuse really seriously," Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said. "Although this box has a hurdles due to a volume of time that has passed, it will be entirely examined; and if a review reveals a law was violated, a chairman obliged will be hold accountable."
AAU Acting President Louis Stout expelled a matter Friday observant that a 63-year-old Dodd has colon cancer and will not lapse to his positions as boss and executive director..
Stout also reliable that a classification is conducting a possess probe.
"The AAU has recently been done wakeful of some critical allegations about President Robert W. 'Bobby' Dodd, dating behind several decades," a matter said. "The AAU has non-stop an eccentric review into these matters and also has contacted internal law coercion in Memphis, where a activities allegedly occurred. We will actively concur with any and all authorities to establish a contribution and a truth."
An AAU mouthpiece pronounced late Friday a organisation would have no additional comment.
Both accusers pronounced they never went to military and usually recently told their families.
According to ESPN, West purported that Dodd fondled him, attempted to fondle him or masturbated in front of him during Dodd's home in Memphis, a AAU Junior Olympics in South Bend, Ind., and tournaments in Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee.
He told a sports network there were a half-dozen times from 1983 to 1985 in that Dodd possibly molested or attempted to hurt him and that in any occurrence Dodd would hide into his room "in a center of a night and we don't hear anything ... and he's perplexing to strech his palm in your underwear, basically."
Dodd did not respond to ESPN's requests for comment. His partner told a network in an email that he had cancer and had late from a AAU on Nov. 29 for health reasons.
Robin Brown-Beamon, inhabitant president for a AAU entertainment executive committee, was astounded by a allegations.
''That's a initial I've listened of any of it," Brown-Beamon told ESPN.
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