If you have a tip or experience you wish to share confidentially with WBEZ, you can contact Investigative Reporter Dan Mihalopoulos at investigations wbez. For decades, Julie Tortorich buried the worst memories of the summer she spent as a teenage lifeguard with the Chicago Park District. That was in the s. Though Tortorich wanted her name used for this story, WBEZ generally agrees to grant anonymity to people who say they have been sexually abused or assaulted. Earlier this year, investigators told top park district officials and board members that the misconduct targeted minors in some cases — including a year-old girl who said her North Side beach supervisor forced her to perform a sex act and then attempted to rape her three years ago. The probe found evidence corroborating her story and allegations of sexual misconduct against two other veteran lifeguards. WBEZ published news of the investigation just as the park district began seeking to hire lifeguards as young as 15 years old to work this summer. Since then, many current and former lifeguards reached out with their own stories of the harassment and abuse they say they endured — often when they were underage. They also allege that park district officials — who say they do not tolerate such behavior — have failed to adequately deal with the problem since the s. Many of the female former lifeguards say they cherished the camaraderie, forming lifelong friendships at their first jobs, where they earned nice paychecks for working in the sun, sand and water.
An “ingrained” culture of sexual misconduct
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