Stevenson, now 38, living about an hour southwest of Philly and working as a director for a major software company, said she also has grave doubts about the center’s position, stated in Perrill’s email, that “we don’t currently have reason to believe” Krasley had been involved in wrongdoing over the three years he worked at the organization.
She wonders if expressing her doubts to the third-party auditing group the center hired to collect information about cases Krasley handled might lead the center to reopen her case and, in turn, give the man she accused, who still coaches kids, a chance of having wrongdoing wiped off his record.
Thus began an angst-infused spiral for Stevenson, whose story serves as a bracing example of the potentially devastating ripple effect the former police officer-turned-SafeSport investigator’s arrest for sex crimes — and the center’s response to it — can have on the people whose cases he handled.
The center has not divulged how many cases Krasley handled over his three years working there, though that was one of the questions Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, asked when he opened an inquiry on the center earlier this month.
She started wondering if Krasley — a man people put their trust in to get to the bottom of sensitive cases, some involving sex abuse and harassment — had appropriately handled other evidence she and a friend had offered of what they said were more recent instances of the coach abusing minors.
