The U.S. Middle for SafeSport has dominated former USA fencing coach Mauro Hamza completely ineligible for membership within the group, citing alleged sexual misconduct involving minors.
Hamza was suspended by USA Fencing in 2014 for 5 years, additionally for alleged sexual misconduct.
A 2020 lawsuit filed by “Jane Doe” was settled final December after the girl mentioned Hamza had coerced her to have intercourse with him at a youth fencing occasion when she was a minor within the Nineteen Nineties. He additionally allegedly repeatedly molested and sexually harassed her.
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The U.S. Middle for SafeSport has dominated former USA fencing coach Mauro Hamza completely ineligible for membership within the group, citing alleged sexual misconduct involving minors. (Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile through Getty Photographs/File)
Doe mentioned she needed to settle for Hamza’s sexual advances as a result of “as soon as their relationship went past that of a typical student-athlete/coach, for Plaintiff, it meant that there was no going again as a result of if anybody discovered, it will have meant the top of fencing for Plaintiff,” per the Houston Press.
Many of the alleged abuse occurred within the Houston space, however the swimsuit was filed in Arizona based mostly on an alleged incident in Phoenix when she was 17. The state allowed folks over the age of 30 who have been abused as minors to sue their alleged abusers earlier than the top of 2020.
Athletes compete throughout a males’s fencing occasion on the Summer season Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 18, 2016. (Christian Petersen / Getty Photographs)
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The swimsuit additionally listed USA Fencing as a defendant, with Doe saying the group didn’t do sufficient to guard her from Hamza and knew that she and Hamza would share lodge rooms and transportation to and from observe alone. The case was settled in December 2022.
Hamza coached the U.S. workforce from 2009 to 2011 however grew to become a distinguished fixture when he was the fencing program coordinator at Rice College from 1995 to 2014. He coached Egypt, his house nation, within the 2004 Olympics and took part in three Olympics himself.
A fencing court docket is proven forward of the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Video games on October 5, 2018, in Argentina. (Buda Mendes / Getty Photographs)
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Legal professionals consider Hamza at the moment lives in Egypt.
Hamza is ready to attraction the suspension, and the punishment is deemed “not but ultimate.”
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