A former AAU coach is responsible for betraying the trust of hundreds of boys, according to a new class action lawsuit.
Attorney Guy Cook announced that Greg Stephen, who admitted to filming underage boys while coach of the AAU team Barnstormers Basketball, would install fake towel hooks and smoke detectors in hotel rooms.
“He violated the position of trust that was placed in him by the players, the players’ parents and others,” Cook said.
Another issue raised in the lawsuit is how the Amateur Athletic Union, or AAU, allowed its own code to be violated.
“A coach shall not share hotel room or other sleeping arrangement with athletes,” Cook said, citing the AAU handbook. “That was violated here. And had this code been followed, enforced and subject to the provision within the Barnstormers Basketball of Iowa operations, none of this would have happened.”
A Facebook page has been set up by Cook’s law firm for anyone else who may have been a victim of Stephen.
