USA Swimming Facing Allegations of Ignoring and Covering Up Sex Abuse

By Kacie Kergides   In May 2018, former Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors Smith filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Orange County, California against USA Swimming and former Olympic assistant coach Sean Hutchinson. Smith alleges that Hutchinson began grooming her for sexual abuse when she was 13 years old. According to the lawsuit, Hutchinson began touching and molesting Smith when she was 15, and when she was 17, he began engaging in sexual activity with her and taking nude pictures of he