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PORTLAND, Ore — A sexual abuse support group lined the street outside Central Catholic High School Thursday, demanding they fire Patrick Jay Wallace – a former coach accused of sexually assaulting a teenager.
“We are here today to ask two simple questions. Why the secrecy? Why the risk?,” said David Clohessy, the director Survivors Network Of Those Abused By Priests (or SNAP).
It’s been 17 years since Bobi Blue says the then David Douglas High softball coach Patrick Jay Wallace sexually assaulted her sister, who is still too shaken up to talk about it.
Bobi agreed to speak on her sister’s behalf.
“It was devastating. It still is. This is the reason I’m here being filmed instead of my sibling. It’s traumatizing,” Blue says.
Blue says her sister was playing for Wallace’s summer club softball team when they went on the road to play a tournament in Idaho. She says Wallace sexually assaulted her sister on the trip.
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