OCA head makes call to action for abused student athletes at JOA Forum Child advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison has issued a call to action to the nation's sporting leaders to eliminate the physical, sexual and mental abuse of athletes, particularly students, by creating a framework of rules that penalises the primary offenders, their coaches. Gordon Harrison threw down the gauntlet at the first Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) Breakfast Forum, themed “Investing Now: Safeguarding our Future”. It was held at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in Kingston. “Within your theme lies an urgent message and indeed a call to action that we must heed if we're at all serious,” she noted. In an impassioned ... Continue reading... http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/spor...ent-athletes-at-joa-forum_156536?profile=1498
