Colleges large and small continue to be rocked by news of former and current coaches and teachers molesting the children under their care. Penn State University, Syracuse University, and now The Citadel in Charleston all have made headlines in recent weeks when charges were brought against their former or current staff members. Last week the case against former high school tennis coach Louis “Skip” ReVille of Charleston, charged initially with molesting several boys, was widened to The Citadel, where ReVille supervised boys in a summer tennis camp. One former camper has accused ReVille of showing boys pornography and performing sexual acts in their presence.
Perhaps the scariest announcement came from the Diocese of Charleston, which hired ReVille in 2008 to coach tennis at Bishop England High School. The diocese recently admitted that although they’ve had a policy in place since 2003 requiring all employees and volunteers who work with children to undergo a background check, no such check was performed on ReVille before he was hired.
The story makes clear the point that it is not enough to merely have a background check policy in place, you must follow through and perform said background checks, including a look at someone’s criminal record and searching for them in sex offender registries — every single time, no exceptions. A policy is just a useless piece of paper if it isn’t followed. And there is much more than legal trouble at stake.
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