Who We Are
We are a group of people whose experiences span almost five decades of Escame’s teaching and coaching career.
As victims, witnesses, allies, family members, friends, fellow teachers and coaches, parents, alumni, and staff, we have firsthand knowledge and experience of the way that Escame abused his position of power over students.
We know that Escame made public and humiliating comments to students and athletes about their bodies, attractiveness, and sexuality both in the classroom, at tournaments, and in sports.
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We have detailed accounts of how Escame pursued and sexually groomed teenage girls from his position of influence over them, following patterns of a predator: recruiting girls to participate in activities that he coached, winning their trust, normalizing a romantic relationship with them, isolating them, and making advances on them.
We believe that silence enables predators to continue hurting victims without consequences.
We believe that as long as communities dismiss this behavior as “harmless”, victims have to endure the fear, psychological damage, and emotional consequences of being sexually preyed on by a person in power over them.
We believe that looking “the other way” year after year because the predator is a winning coach or teacher is wrong.
We believe that schools and school districts who protect predators must be held accountable for allowing vulnerable students to be hurt.
We are speaking out. We will not be silent.
We will not “let the past be the past”.
We are using our collective voice to say No More.