In a video and written piece that she wrote in USA Today, Wagner, an Olympic bronze medalist and US national champion in figure skating, says she was sexually assaulted by former figure skater John Coughlin when she was 17 years old and when he was 22
Coughlin, a two-time US pairs champion, killed himself in January at age 33.His death came a day after he was suspended from US Figure Skating by the US Center for SafeSport, which investigates all forms of abuse in sport, amid a pending grievance, to which Coughlin denied wrongdoing. SafeSport closed the investigation after his death."What happened to Ashley should not happen to anyone, period," US Figure Skating spokeswoman Barbara Reichert said in a statement to CNN on Thursday.
Later, she said, no one was able to drive her back to the hotel where she was staying, so she and other girls spent the night."It felt safe," Wagner said."My friends were there. I was offered up a bed and didn't think twice about taking it, and soon drifted off to sleep."It was in the middle of the night, Wagner says, when Coughlin sexually assaulted her."I thought he just wanted a place to sleep," Wagner said."But then he started kissing my neck.
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