Anonymous wrote:Excellent reminder to talk to your kids about what’s appropriate and not appropriate and to trust your gut regardless of the adult’s position.

A local softball coach was charged earlier this year with a sexual assault issue with someone underage….the girls absolutely had a “bad vibe” with him and several girls had dropped his team or avoided trying out.

This is good advice. But keep in mind there’s no indication he targeted minors, at least not yet.

ASA could not have safeguarded against this. He had no record. And yes, seems he was a parent volunteer. Say a prayer for his victims, including his family, who are likely shocked by this news and devastated.

FWIW, this really seems like a case of leading a dual life, so it’s unlikely he harmed anyone who could identify him, so none of the kids he coached in ASA or ADP. That’s how he evaded capture for all these years, by hiding and masking his crimes and his true self. And then some relative of his did a 23 and Me.

Then search it up yourself if you care or need to know

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Anonymous wrote:Excellent reminder to talk to your kids about what’s appropriate and not appropriate and to trust your gut regardless of the adult’s position.

A local softball coach was charged earlier this year with a sexual assault issue with someone underage….the girls absolutely had a “bad vibe” with him and several girls had dropped his team or avoided trying out.

And the Arlington swim Dad

Can you link ? Now I need to know …

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Anonymous wrote:Excellent reminder to talk to your kids about what’s appropriate and not appropriate and to trust your gut regardless of the adult’s position.

A local softball coach was charged earlier this year with a sexual assault issue with someone underage….the girls absolutely had a “bad vibe” with him and several girls had dropped his team or avoided trying out.

And the Arlington swim Dad

Can you link ? Now I need to know …

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Anonymous wrote:He was arrested as he is accused of being a serial rapist!

https://wjla.com/news/local/dc-maryland-virginia-serial-rapist-ernesto-mercado-georgetown-college-park-cuddler-university-of-maryland-umd-cold-unsolved-cases-sexual-assault-victims-rape-investigation-glover-park

From ASA:

We are deeply disturbed by the news regarding Ernesto Mercado, who was a volunteer with Arlington Soccer Association. Mr. Mercado was a volunteer from March 2019 to June 2024, and during his time with us, we were not aware of any allegations or concerns regarding his conduct. Arlington Soccer Association conducts thorough background checks on all of our volunteers, and we remain committed to maintaining the safety and well-being of all participants in our programs.

I would not believe everything you see on the news. They oftentimes don't fact-check. While this may be true, you cannot assume that they are correct. The news recently had a woman saying dozens of kids were killed at a location in DMV, and that's simply not true. Also, there was another person accused of something terrible
with kids a few years ago and as things came out the parents lied. The media doesn't do its job anymore. They just put out the headlines.

When you wonder how people enable abusers, just think of this person. I'm assuming you are voting for the orange guy too.

lol NC is devastated but you probably are happy laundering money to UKR and other shytholes before your fellow citizens.

FU. Where do you get off denigrating Ukraine. You're a db.

Anonymous wrote:Excellent reminder to talk to your kids about what’s appropriate and not appropriate and to trust your gut regardless of the adult’s position.

A local softball coach was charged earlier this year with a sexual assault issue with someone underage….the girls absolutely had a “bad vibe” with him and several girls had dropped his team or avoided trying out.

And the Arlington swim Dad

Excellent reminder to talk to your kids about what’s appropriate and not appropriate and to trust your gut regardless of the adult’s position.

A local softball coach was charged earlier this year with a sexual assault issue with someone underage….the girls absolutely had a “bad vibe” with him and several girls had dropped his team or avoided trying out.

Surely somebody on this forum had to have had this guy as their kids coach or worked with him. Curious how he seemed?

serial murderers, child molesters, rapists…they know to appear to have a normal life. They know how to fool everyone. I saw the booze Allen thing and I think I also saw a fb pic of him w what appeared to be a wife and kid. So now the wife is the one who should have known? Is the child safe? Not as easy as figuring out why ASA/VYSA should have known, these people are experts at fooling everyone.

This is sad but as many have said, there’s simply no way for a volunteer background check to flag someone who hasn’t been caught yet. It’s impossible. It’s not a TS clearance investigation. They’re just running record checks. And even a TS investigation can easily miss something if not on someone’s record and a good liar.

People just want to blame something or someone...background checks or safesport. You don't know what you don't know. It's tragic but being weird or even creepy isn't enough to catch a rapist. If anything, you should be frustrated that it took the police this long to figure it out.

Anonymous wrote:It appears that he works for Booz in an IT security background. Very good chance he has a TS security clearance.

If the federal government security clearance investigation doesn't flag anything, then SafeSport isn't going to flag anything. It's still better than nothing.

He wouldn't be flagged unless he had already been caught of something before.

It appears that he works for Booz in an IT security background. Very good chance he has a TS security clearance.

If the federal government security clearance investigation doesn't flag anything, then SafeSport isn't going to flag anything. It's still better than nothing.

Anonymous wrote:Background check. They should do it each year.

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Anonymous wrote:ASA needs to do better.

Mclean dad? Dude, there is no way they could have known.

They do background checks for parent volunteers. Please explain, for those of us who are slow, how that would have made a difference here?

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Anonymous wrote:He was arrested as he is accused of being a serial rapist!

https://wjla.com/news/local/dc-maryland-virginia-serial-rapist-ernesto-mercado-georgetown-college-park-cuddler-university-of-maryland-umd-cold-unsolved-cases-sexual-assault-victims-rape-investigation-glover-park

From ASA:

We are deeply disturbed by the news regarding Ernesto Mercado, who was a volunteer with Arlington Soccer Association. Mr. Mercado was a volunteer from March 2019 to June 2024, and during his time with us, we were not aware of any allegations or concerns regarding his conduct. Arlington Soccer Association conducts thorough background checks on all of our volunteers, and we remain committed to maintaining the safety and well-being of all participants in our programs.

I would not believe everything you see on the news. They oftentimes don't fact-check. While this may be true, you cannot assume that they are correct. The news recently had a woman saying dozens of kids were killed at a location in DMV, and that's simply not true. Also, there was another person accused of something terrible
with kids a few years ago and as things came out the parents lied. The media doesn't do its job anymore. They just put out the headlines.

When you wonder how people enable abusers, just think of this person. I'm assuming you are voting for the orange guy too.

lol NC is devastated but you probably are happy laundering money to UKR and other shytholes before your fellow citizens.

They are going to make endless documentaries on how stupid your cult is. This is the purest essence of a blind fool.

This is creepy.