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Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

14 Year-Old Athlete’s Life Shattered - Survivor John-Michael Lander | Podcast 714

Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

Shaun Attwood Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey John Michael Lander, how is it going my friend?

0:05.5

Very well done, how are you doing?

0:07.7

Yeah fantastic, we're about in the world are you?

0:10.8

I am actually in Dayton, Ohio.

0:14.3

Dayton, Ohio, okay, yeah I just spent a lot of time in America but I never got out of

0:18.4

Ohio and I know you've got a harrowing story and because of the restrictions on our channel

0:26.3

we have a legal requirement to ask you, do you wave your anonymity?

0:31.1

Yes.

0:32.1

Alright thank you, can you start out by telling the viewers a little bit about yourself please?

0:37.6

Sure, I'm John Michael Lander and I'm a former Olympic diving contender and sex abuse survivor.

0:44.7

As a 14 year old Olympic bound athlete the adults that were entrusted with my training

0:50.0

grew and sexually abused me and kind of gave me the whole time when I was like learning

0:57.2

to be exciting and happy I was filled with guilt and shame and yet I still went on to

1:02.5

win gold medals at the Norway and the Danish cups and so one of the predators that I had

1:08.0

to deal with was a doctor at a university and they became part of this group of professionals

1:16.2

and what these professionals would do would like pass us around and so that then they would

1:21.4

sponsor us and help us get our Olympic dream and that's basically the whole thing that's

1:26.2

happened.

1:27.2

That's like an in-much shell.

1:29.2

Oh good grief, what was it like for you growing up?

1:32.9

Well I grew up in a farm house and it was really really crazy because I didn't understand

1:39.6

I was 14 again and my first sexual experience was with one of the professionals and I just

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