Kurt Ludwigsen, who is a former women’s softball coach in Christian Nyack College, was accused of sexual abuse, which included licking his players’ ears, kissing their faces and lips, slapping their buttocks, grabbing their breasts, directing the girls to sit on his lap, lying on top of them, commenting about ladies’ physical attributes and many other disgusting things.
44-year-old man has even invited a pornographic actress to counsel the athletes. She has directed the underage girls to drink alcohol and dance with male strangers. The actress has also asked the girls to join the pornographic industry. It is also said that some of the Nyack’s staff members have known what was exactly Kurt Ludwigsen doing. So, all the employees will be required will be questioned by the investigators.
The ex softball coach has gone even further, asking regularly his athletes talk about their sexual lives. He has also made a list of the girls he liked more. Ludwigsen also encouraged them to begin a career as a stripper.
Kurt Ludwigsen has even encouraged his underage players to drink alcohol at a cocktail during a trip to New York City. He also made the girls to wear cocktail dresses. This is not the first criminal investigation against the former coach. In 2014, under the alias Kurt Vogner, he was again investigated for the same thing, while coaching a girls’ softball team in California.
But that’s not all! When Ludwigsen had received a negative treatment by his victims, he had limited their playing time or had removed them from the squad. There are several abolished of the team players, due to the fact he felt neglected.
On the other hand, despite of Kurt Ludwigsen’s abuses, he has been a good softball coach, as he has won two national championships while being a coach at the University of Arizona.
“In terms of the criminal resolution, it doesn’t feel like justice. There’s some frustration and, I think, on a larger scale, some concern,” Krouner, the lawyer of the players, said.
Kurt Ludwigsen eventually pled guilty and will be required to serve three years of probation and perform community service. The sentence doesn’t seem harsh enough for the former Nyack College’s softball coach, whose inadmissible actions deserved a crueler punishment.
The only good news is that the former coach, for sure, will struggle to find his next workplace as a softball coach. So, he will surely need to change his profession.
