A person who first sued Joe Namath in 2019 underneath the title “John Doe” spoke to the New York Post Sunday night, telling the outlet he was routinely sexually abused at Namath’s youth soccer camp again in 1972, when he was simply 12.
Philip Lyle Smith, who attended Namath’s camp within the early Seventies, claims that former Brooklyn Poly Prep soccer coach John Foglietta repeatedly sexually assaulted him throughout his time on the camp. According to Smith’s lawsuit, which was supplied to Deadspin by Smith’s legal professional, Arthur Middlemiss, Foglietta was a serial pedophile who abused younger boys whereas a soccer coach on the faculty between 1966 and 1991. In 2012, Brooklyn Poly Prep settled a lawsuit over allegations that Foglietta raped and molested a number of boys and issued an apology to its college students. Foglietta died in 1998.
“My innocence was robbed from me at the age of 12 years old at the Joe Namath Football camp in Wilmington, Vt., at the Sitzmark Lodge in July of 1972,” Smith instructed The Post.
Smith’s lawsuit alleges that Foglietta abused him from ages 10-17, from 1970 to 1977. The lawsuit claims that, “[a]fter Smith’s father unexpectedly passed away in 1970, “One of the few bright moments that happened after his father’s death was that [Smith] was able to attend, free of charge, a summer camp run by Poly.”
Smith claims that, whereas attending the Joe Namath Instructional Football Camp, Namath and his accomplice, former Jets participant John Dockery, “tolerated and covered up known sexual abuse at the camp” by Foglietta. Smith mentioned he attended the camp as Foglietta’s invited visitor, and that adults on the camp didn’t query why he slept in Foglietta’s room whereas different Poly Prep college students slept with different campers.
Smith’s lawsuit alleges Foglietta ordered {that a} cot be introduced to his room for Smith to sleep in, however Foglietta by no means retrieved the cot and Smith wound up sleeping within the coach’s mattress, Foglietta threatened to ship Smith house if he didn’t oblige, as “Foglietta was sponsoring [Smith’s] camp attendance.”
According to Smith:
“He had the entire evening with me alone. The sexual abuse physically started there with his actions, started with massages, then it became naked massages where I was naked. He became naked, and it escalated from there, and it lasted the entire week,” Smith mentioned.
Smith mentioned Foglietta would masturbate in entrance of him and that the coach “tried to masturbate me, but I was 12 years old — I couldn’t achieve an erection.”
Smith’s lawsuit additionally claims that Namath and Dockery had been closely concerned within the day-to-day life of the campers, declaring that Namath attended camp periods almost each day and visited the dwelling areas within the camp, together with camp dormitories. Moreover, the criticism alleges that “counselors employed by Namath were present and assisted when the Poly group checked into the Sitzmark Lodge, the facility used by Namath to house Foglietta and the Poly campers. Counselors were well aware that Doe was not assigned a room or bunk bed like the other campers. While at check-in, a counselor heard Foglietta tell Doe that he would not have a bunk and would be sleeping in Foglietta’s room.” When requested if he required a cot for Smith to sleep in, Foglietta allegedly replied, “Okay. Why not?” Foglietta allegedly left the cot sitting outdoors his room till it was eliminated the next day.
Further, Smith recollects that counselors had been required to do mattress checks every night time and that different campers had been disciplined when their beds had been discovered empty.
Smith instructed the Post that he broke his silence about his abuse for the primary time in 45 years when his spouse seen how upset he turned when following the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. Smith in contrast Namath’s ignoring of Foglietta’s abuse to former Penn State soccer coach Joe Paterno’s alleged data of coach Jerry Sandusky’s child sexual abuse.
The lawsuit alleges that Foglietta’s habits “was an unmissable red flag to Namath, and Dockery that something was seriously wrong with Foglietta and that Doe was at grave risk of harm.”
Deadspin reached out to Namath’s attorneys for remark, however as of the time of publication, they’d not returned our makes an attempt to contact them.
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