Reports of sexual abuse and misconduct rose 55% from a year ago, according to a national Olympic sports oversight center.
The U.S. Center for SafeSport, founded by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee in 2017 to investigate sex-abuse claims in Olympic sports, said it receives about 239 reports a month, compared with 154 during an average month in 2018, a spokesperson confirmed to ABC News Tuesday.
It currently has 18 investigators and lawyers on a staff of 37 to handle the load, but it projects it will need to double its staff in 2020 and triple it by 2023 to keep up, according to The Associated Press, which was the first to report on the center's figures, which are released quarterly. "The USOPC and the NGBs [National Governing Bodies] must be invested in changing their sport culture, which means they must invest in the center," Ju'Riese Colon, the center’s CEO, told the AP. “While I appreciate people connecting us [to USADA] because we’re certainly similar, the job and scope is so different, and I think the funding is going to have to be a lot different."
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