The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, has hired an attorney to investigate allegations that inductee Bob Hewitt sexually abused girls he coached, an inquiry that could result in his expulsion or suspension from the Hall. No one has ever been expelled or suspended from the Hall. Stenning said its bylaws were changed in April to allow for it, but he declined to go into the details about how that would happen. She said she was sexually abused by Hewitt starting at age 15, when she claimed he forced her to have sex with him near a high school in Massachusetts. The allegations range over a year period and the women did not know one another before the story broke. Conner is critical of the Hall for not taking action sooner and said she wanted to see Hewitt expelled.
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South African tennis legend Bob Hewitt, 71, has been accused of sexually molesting young girls — perhaps as many as nine, one of whom was only 10 years old at the time — in America and South Africa. He told me I was a late developer and needed to have sex with him. I avoided him like the plague. The revelations follow a report in US newspaper the Boston Globe, which carried out a six-month investigation of the international tennis doubles star after one of his American victims broke her silence in March. Former pro-tennis player Heather Conner nee Crowe resigned from her school committee, citing the therapy she was receiving for the sexual abuse she suffered from her coach when she was She alleged she was coerced into sex with him for the first time near the tennis courts at Masconomet Regional High School in Topsfield when she had just turned
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By Tom Leonard. Former tennis champion Bob Hewitt, one of the greatest doubles players of all time, is being investigated over allegations that he sexually abused girls he coached. At least five women have claimed he molested them between the s and s.