This guy occasionally appeared on the ESPN Sunday Morning show called The Sports Reporters.
He's 77 years old now, and resigned when the allegations that he sexually abused 3 girls and 1 boy during the 1970s became public. The kids were betwee 7 and 12 at the time, and one of the accusers is his niece.
CBS.Philly
He's 77 years old now, and resigned when the allegations that he sexually abused 3 girls and 1 boy during the 1970s became public. The kids were betwee 7 and 12 at the time, and one of the accusers is his niece.
CBS.Philly
InquirerPhiladelphia sports columnist Bill Conlin accused of 1970's sex abuse
(CBS/AP) PHILADELPHIA - Well-known Philadelphia sportswriter Bill Conlin has been accused by three women and one man of sexually molesting them decades ago when they were children.
The New York Times reports that an investigation by the Philadelphia Inquirer determined the 77-year-old Conlin allegedly abused the children when they were ages 7 to 12. The Inquirer printed graphic detail of the accusations in an article on its website.
After the news broke in the paper, Conlin, who's enshrined in the media wing of the Baseball all of Fame, abruptly retired Tuesday from his position as a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News - a job he has held for more than four decades.
Conlin's attorney, George Bochetto, says his client was "floored by these accusations" and "plans to do everything possible to bring the facts forward to vindicate his name."
Prosecutors in New Jersey said no charges can be filed because the statute of limitations had expire in cases of abuse that occurred before 1996.
Philadelphia sportswriter Bill Conlin, July 23, 2011, in Cooperstown, N.Y.
(Credit: File, AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Four say Philly Daily News writer Bill Conlin sexually abused them as children
By Nancy Phillips
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Three women and a man say they were molested as children by Bill Conlin, a Hall of Fame baseball writer and Philadelphia Daily News columnist.
In vivid accounts, the four say Conlin groped and fondled them and touched their genitals in assaults in the 1970s, when they were ages 7 to 12.
"This is a tragedy," said Kelley Blanchet, a niece of Conlin's who said he molested her when she was a child. "People have kept his secret. It's not just the victims, it's the victims' families. There were so many people who knew about this and did nothing."
Bill Conlin retired Dec. 20, 2011 from the Philadelphia Daily News.
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