La Tennis player Kylie McKenzie, 23, announced at a press conference that she will file a lawsuit for sexual harassment and assault against his former tennis coach and the United States Tennis Association (USTA).
Accompanied by her lawyer Robert Allard, he commented that McKenzie was sexually assaulted by coach Anibal Aranda. He accused the USTA of allegedly knowing that Aranda had a history of assault before assigning your client as your coach. When the harassment suffered by McKenzie became known, another person denounced that Aranda groped her and touched her vagina over her clothes in a New York City nightclub around 2015, but that he did not tell the incident to anyone.
McKenzie, 23, joined the USTA training team full time in California when I was 12 years old. He won the national championship when he was 15 and played the junior US Open. The following year, he won the Eddie Herr International Junior Tournament.
His career stopped short due to episodes of harassment . “Aranda manose and sexually touched Kylie almost all over her body under the argument that they were novel training techniques,” said attorney Allard.
“After weeks of harassment, Aranda pounced, violating the most private part of Kylie’s body.Allard said. “That’s when Kylie walked away from this man as fast as she could.”
Panic attacks after sexual assault
McKenzie said he began to suffer from panic attacks, anxiety and depression. “I grew up within the USTA system and trusted them. I was hoping they would take this more seriously, but I was wrong.McKenzie said.
SafeSport, organization tasked with investigating allegations of sexual and physical abuse in sports, determined that Aranda had sexually harassed and assaulted McKenzie. He suspended Aranda from coaching for two years and put him on probation for two more years after discovering he was touched McKenzie’s vagina on her clothes under the pretense of teaching her a serve technique. Aranda always denied everything. He suggested that McKenzie had made up a story because they had told her that the USTA planned to stop supporting her, according to The New York Times.
Chris Widmaier, USTA spokesman, He said any suggestion that their academies are unsafe was inaccurate as they always do background checks on their employees. More than three years ago, Mrs. McKenzie reported an incident and that report was treated with the utmost seriousness and urgency. The USTA immediately notified the United States Sports Safety Center and cooperated in a full and thorough investigation of the incident.. The USTA suspended the violator the same day as the report and has since not allowed him to return to the property or to any USTA-sponsored function or event,” Widmaier said in a statement.
