Re: 3 more ex-Colton High football players accuse wigger Grand Terrace Athletic Director of sexual misconduct

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In the spring of 2004, a Colton High School football player and
track athlete was getting taped by Tiffany Gordon, the school’s
athletic trainer in the locker room for a meet later that day.

Gordon flirted with the athlete, who was 16 at the time, and
then she placed his hand on her breast, the player said in an
interview with the Southern California News Group and according
to a court filing obtained by the SCNG.

Gordon was wearing a black t-shirt that celebrated Colton High’s
title-winning football season the previous fall. The back of the
shirt listed the Yellowjackets’ victories in the school’s
colors, crimson and gold. The front of the shirt featured four
menacing looking players.

“Want Some?” the shirt read above the players.

“Come Get Some” the shirt said below the image.

“I want some,” the player recalled joking to Gordon.

“Then come get some,” Gordon said before she leaned over and
began kissing the player, according to the interview and court
filing.

“I walked away (thinking), ‘What the hell just happened?’” the
player recalled in the interview.

The next day, Gordon, the daughter of legendary Colton High
football coach Harold Strauss, texted the player, referred to in
court documents as John Doe 7068 and invited him to meet her at
a relative’s home she was housesitting where Gordon had sexual
intercourse with him for the first time, according to the
interview and the filing.

“That was the first time I had sex,” John Doe 7068 said in an
interview. “I actually lost my virginity that night.”

John Doe 7068 is one of three former Colton High School players
who allege in a lawsuit filed against Gordon and the Colton
Joint Unified School District in San Bernardino Superior Court
that Gordon routinely engaged in sexual misconduct with them
throughout their high school football careers covering a period
from 2001 to 2009.

“She was still working for the Colton school district, knowing
what I’ve been dealing with with my own self right now and
knowing this is part of some of the things that have formed in
me, I don’t want that to happen to anybody and looking back
right now I’m disgusted,” John Doe 7068 said in his interview
with the SCNG, referring to Gordon, who is now the athletic
director at Grand Terrace High School in the CJUSD. “I have four
kids and if one of my kids was in that situation I’d be furious.
So I knew she was still in the school district, that was one of
the big deals. I want to make sure that she doesn’t have access
to children anymore.

“I need to stop this.”

The suit follows a similar suit filed against Gordon and the
CJUSD in September on behalf of six former Colton players who
said Gordon sexually assaulted, abused and molested them with
the knowledge of Harold Strauss and other Yellowjackets coaches
over a six-year period between 2001 and 2007.

In a series of interviews with SCNG and in court documents the
six players allege that Gordon had sexual intercourse with and
performed oral sex on players who were between the ages of 14
and 17 in the school’s locker room, training room, bathrooms,
weight room and football trailer as well as at her parents’
house during weekly meetings between the coaches and top
players. One player alleged in an interview and the lawsuit that
Gordon had sex with him at least 50 times during his senior year
at Colton High, when he was 17.

“The amount of sexual abuse that took place at Colton High
School is truly alarming,” said Brian Williams, an attorney for
the players. “As more and more survivors come forward, the full
extent of the institutional failures that enabled this systemic
abuse becomes more obvious. School leadership had an obligation
to educate and safeguard these students, but wholly failed to
accomplish these fundamental tasks.”

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Gordon is currently on a leave of absence, a school official
said. The CJUSD declined to say when Gordon was placed on leave
or whether she is being paid while on leave.

Gordon has not responded to multiple requests for comment.
Gordon has been interviewed by the Colton Police Department,
according to Paul Wallin, Gordon’s criminal defense attorney.

“My client vehemently denies any and all allegations that she
sexually assaulted any students in any way,” said Wallin, who
represents California Teachers Association members who have been
accused of sexual misconduct. “As of this time no criminal
charges have been filed.

“If the allegations were taken seriously (by law enforcement)
why have no criminal charges been filed?”

But under California law, charges for misdemeanor statutory rape
must be filed within one year, three years for felony statutory
rape.

“Let’s put it this way – if that’s what the prosecuting attorney
believes, fantastic,” Wallin said.

The CJUSD has hired a Sacramento law firm to conduct an
investigation into the allegations against Gordon. It is the
same law firm that Mater Dei hired last year to investigate
allegations of bullying and other misconduct within the school’s
football and athletic programs.

“The sheer number of survivors coming forward with allegations
of sexual abuse by this woman indicates a public safety
nightmare for students of a magnitude that the Inland Empire has
never seen,” Michael Reck, an attorney for the players, said.
“Officials could have and should have reported this to law
enforcement long ago and these children could have been spared.”

In response to a series of questions this week from the SCNG,
including whether the district is aware of any allegations of
sexual misconduct by Gordon during her tenure at Grand Terrace
High School, a CJUSD spokesperson said in a statement, “We have
been in contact with the Colton Police Department regarding
their investigation and continue to be partners with them in
this matter. Because this is still in the investigatory phase,
we have not been given clearance to provide further information
at this time.”

Harold Strauss died in December 2019 at the age of 60.

SCNG does not name the survivors of sexual abuse.

The lawsuit was filed within the three-year window created by
Assembly Bill 218, which was signed into law by Gov. Gavin
Newsom in 2019 and went into effect January 1, 2020.

Under the new law, alleged survivors have a three-year period to
file past claims that had expired under the state’s statute of
limitations. That three-year window closes on December 31.

Alleged survivors must file civil suits within eight years of
becoming an adult or three years from the date an adult survivor
“discovers” or should have discovered they were sexually abused,
under current California law.

Under Harold Strauss, Colton High School’s football program
gained a national reputation as a pipeline to schools in the so-
called Power 5 conferences and the NFL. Six players from Colton,
a school with less than 2,000 students, were on NFL rosters
during both the 2014 and 2015 seasons. A year later, 10 former
Colton players were invited to NFL training camps. Colton’s 2005
roster included six future NFL players.

But within the Yellowjackets program, there was rampant talk
amongst players and coaches about Gordon’s alleged routine
sexual abuse of Colton players as young as 14, according to
interviews with former players and the two lawsuits.

“The number of people who have now come forward is nothing short
of astonishing,” said Jemma Dunn, an attorney for the players.
“Only a complete and utter lack of oversight could facilitate
this level of pervasive abuse.”

Tiffany Gordon joined her father at Colton shortly after he took
over as head coach in 2000. A year later, John Doe 7068, then a
14-year-old freshman, alleges that Gordon began grooming him by
placing his hands on her breasts and began massaging his body
“under the guise of providing medical treatment and physical
therapy,” according to the suit. In the spring of 2004, Gordon
began having sexual intercourse and performing oral sex on the
player on a regular basis on the Colton campus and in private
homes, according to the former player and the lawsuit.

The former player described his interaction with Gordon as
“completely transactional.”

“There was no emotion whatsoever,” he said. “I only talked to
her for two things, it was either I got to get something in
working order so I can get back on the field or sex. That was
the relationship. There was nothing else besides that. It wasn’t
uncommon not to talk for days or weeks.

“When I lost my virginity, I didn’t talk to her for a week after
that.”

Eventually, John Doe 7068 said, he “emotionally shut down.”

“I lost my virginity to her and I learned what sex was by
actually having it and not being taught about it,” John Doe 7068
said. “I learned it was not an emotional connection. It was
something that was separate from that. I learned that you could
talk to someone only for that. There didn’t have to be any other
foundation or work or anything of that regard. It damaged your
ability to grow close to someone or even be emotionally
vulnerable to somebody.

“And I didn’t really realize why I was that way and why I was so
closed off emotionally and I do think this has a really big
impact on my ability to separate those worlds and also foster an
unrealistic expectation toward a partner. “I (developed) this
appetite for an unrealistic view of (sex).

“It took me a few years to realize what that was.”

That realization only came in a recent therapy session, John Doe
7068 said, when he mentioned to his therapist that he lost his
virginity when he was 16 to a woman roughly 10 years older than
him.

“And (the therapist) said, ‘Whoa!! Hold on. Let’s not just
breeze by that. Hold on just don’t just pass by it,’” John Doe
7068 said. “Then it took on a very different light to me. It
made me realize why I had such a disconnect.”

John Doe 7069 said he heard widespread rumors during his
freshman season in 2001 of Gordon’s alleged sexual misconduct
with Yellow Jackets players, specifically during a team trip to
Oregon.

A former Colton player, identified in court filings as John 7042
said in an interview with SCNG and in the initial lawsuit
against the school district and former trainer that he was
sleeping in a van carrying him and his teammates to a football
camp in Oregon when he awoke to find Gordon performing oral sex
on him.

“I woke up shocked,” he said.

But if his teammates noticed no one said anything.

“It wasn’t out of the ordinary,” Doe 7042 said.

During his sophomore year, John Doe 7069 said Gordon “always
placed his foot between or onto her breasts” while taping his
legs, according to the suit. Gordon later performed oral sex on
John Doe 7069 twice at school, according to the court filing.

A third former Colton player, John Doe 7070, also said that
during his freshman season in 2006, Gordon also began placing
his “feet on her breasts when she massaged his legs, and also
moved his hands to her breasts,” according to the court filing.

“On one occasion, Gordon was taping John Doe 7070’s feet and
began groping him over his shorts,” the lawsuit said. “She
pulled his penis out of his shorts and commented on its
appearance. Gordon then began to orally copulate John Doe 7070.
He was only 15 years old. Gordon fondled, groped, and orally
copulated John Doe 7070 while he was a minor on numerous
occasions.”

John Doe 7070 transferred to another school during his sophomore
year but returned to Colton as a junior at which time, according
to the lawsuit, Gordon “continued her sexual assaults, including
fondling, groping, and oral copulation” of him.

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