Accusers of longtime USA Olympic swimming coach speak out | Banfield

Amanda Le, a former competitive swimmer, is suing USA Swimming. She says her Hall of Fame coach Joseph Bernal sexually abused her 15 years ago when she was a minor and alleges USA Swimming and other organizations knew of the abuse but did nothing to intervene. "It started when I was 15," Le exclusively told NewsNation's "Banfield." "He kissed me after practice, and it kept going from there. I felt brainwashed by him, and I just wanted to do whatever he said because I wanted to be a good swimmer, go to college, get a scholarship." The 33-page lawsuit alleges sexual abuse on the part of Bernal, the former Fordham and Harvard swim coach who served on the U.S. coaching staff at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics. Bernal was also named in an August 2021 lawsuit in which Kimberly Stines accused him of emotional and sexual abuse beginning in 1976. USA Swimming is not a defendant in the 2021 lawsuit. Stines also joins "Banfield" to share her "eerily similar" story.
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