There are a couple of points of irony:
1) he wrote these words as a sports journalist:
2) He was brought down by his own daughter who in the charitable act of seeking to donate old mobile phones for charity, powered up his cast off and found over 16000 texts including overtly sexual and pictures of his inadequate appendage to her whilst grooming and then abusing a young 14-year old sportswoman. To her enormous credit, his daughter did the right thing but what must have been very tough to do, and ratted out her father. His wife, from whom he was separated, and her brother confronted him.“Sport, with … its opportunity for building relationships between coaches and participants, is a fine feeding ground for those few sick minds who prey on kids. No amount of extra trouble in screening coaches and enforcing guidelines and watching our kids is too much to avoid the grim spectacle of wrecked lives.”
To this ballix's credit, he has twice tried to commit suicide, I hope he has better luck on his next attempt.
I urge all people here to take very careful cognisance of who their kids are involved with within any organisation, be that sporting, church or any organisation where volunteering adults are in charge of groups of children.
I don't believe there is a paedophile around every corner or behind every bush, but it is beyond doubt that too many gravitate to such organisations where they have a position of power and the ability to foster or destroy the ambitions of the kids in their charge. At the same time, we all know that volunteers, in general, do a great job overall in making good choices available to kids to fill their days.
Just take good care of your kids, know who is involved and be watchful, don't assume that it can't happen to them.