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Decades on, Alison extracted a confession from her gymnastics coach – Sydney Morning Herald
“When I found myself, aged 14, alone in his house, I saw it as proof that I was special. I didn’t regard his first assault as rape,” Alison Quigley recalls.
He put her on the phone to him and told her to keep him talking. She did, for two hours.
Oh, dear, you bring back an unsavoury episode, Partington said to her. That would be the worst episode of my life. You cant make excuses for weakness its a character flaw a stupid episode a moment of weakness. Alison still bristles when remembering his self-justifications.
Partington continued: But I didnt have too many other episodes where well, I didnt have any other episodes, actually.
Yet there had be…
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