Allen Watson

[Benjamin Grimm]

Allen Watson is getting a lot of UMDB hits the past couple of days, and I investigated to find out why.

Here's what I found.

Coach 'monster' By DYLAN BUTLER in Boston and DAN MANGAN in New York Last Updated: 4:00 AM, April 5, 2011 Posted: 3:09 AM, April 5, 2011 A famed New York Catholic hoops coach pleaded guilty yesterday to raping a 14-year-old boy during a trip to a Yankee doubleheader in Boston in 1976 -- as the victim revealed a $20 million lawsuit against the former Christ the King legend and the Diocese of Brooklyn. And right after Bob Oliva's guilty plea -- which netted him just five years' probation -- ex-Yankee and Met pitcher Allen Watson accused Oliva of victimizing him while Watson was a Christ the King HS student. "Bob Oliva is a monster," Watson, 40, told reporters after the Boston court hearing. "I'm ashamed to be a CK alumnus, especially ashamed of the people who defended and protected this monster. "Bob Oliva never touched me. He took me to prostitutes at 14, 15, 16 years old and watched me. He showed me pornography, and he masturbated. I was young, and I thought every coach did that," said Watson, who testified before the Boston grand jury that indicted Oliva. "I know there's more victims out there." Oliva, 66, who coached future NBA stars Lamar Odom and Jayson Williams, won 549 games at Christ the King in Middle Village, Queens. He retired months after being accused in 2009 of abusing Jimmy Carlino, whom he coached in a Catholic youth basketball league in the 1970s. In a searing victim-impact statement yesterday, Carlino said Oliva began molesting him at age 12 and continued doing so on more than 100 occasions over four years in Queens, other states and Quebec. The rape and pornography-dissemination charges Oliva pleaded to were for his attack on Carlino during a trip to Boston. "I lost my childhood to Bob Oliva," Carlino tearfully told a judge as Oliva watched stone-faced. "These days of teaching me basketball, playing stickball and softball, going to baseball games or taking me for rides in his cool car on trips were all for one reason: I was his sex toy or his sex trophy. "You are a sick, disgusting person . . . and a poor example of a human being who took advantage of your position and power in life." Oliva, now living in Myrtle Beach, SC, is barred from coaching and being around children under the age of 18 without supervision. He also was ordered to wear a GPS tracking device. He now faces Carlino's Queens Supreme Court civil lawsuit, filed Friday, which also names the Diocese of Brooklyn.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yikey.

CK was an absolute basketball powerhouse in those days, weren't they?

[metirish]

Five years probation for such vile crimes, is that because there's a deal with the prosecution that pleading guilty gets him the probation? The victims usually have a say in that?

[HahnSolo]

Some of the victims I read were outraged not so much by the plea but by the no jail time. This is the first I've heard Allen Watson's name in connection to Oliva.

I remember meeting Oliva in 1989 when CTK was in the city playoffs at Fordham and I covered the games for the school radio station. I guess you really never know people. That CTK team was stacked with I think four guys who went D1, including Derrick Phelps, who later helped UNC win a national championship.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I guess the lack of man-boy sex contact in his exploitations helped him excape time in the clink. The jury isn't going to hear "he solicited prostitutes for me and got off on it" as tatamount to child rape, and maybe they shouldn't, but man.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, that's Allen Watson's experience, but it sounds like he actually had sex with Jimmy Carlino.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, I've got to learn to read more deeply into articles that disgust me.

[metirish]

had sex with Jimmy Carlino. sounds almost quaint , he raped him.

[Benjamin Grimm]

True. I certainly didn't mean to be quaint!