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Originally posted by BayStateRef
Halloran noted referees have no unsupervised contact with athletes.
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I used to have this mindset as well. "It's not like he's gonna have the chance to molest a kid during the game, or even in a locker room after the game."
But somebody on this forum (maybe Juulie) noted that nobody can supervise this ref
away from the court after he's built up some trust and/or respect with the players. The players come to have a certain level of trust in the officials if they see them regularly (or at least the officials are no longer "strangers"). So what might happen if the ref just "happens" to run into one of these kids at the mall or somewhere else where they're away from the parents?
While this particular official may have paid for his past crimes, I don't think we can allow him to have that much contact with the kids. JMO.