Introducing Dig Season 3: The Girls

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

They were trusted educators and respected coaches. But in the summer of 2025, twin brothers Ronnie and Donnie Stoner, were indicted on more than 50 charges related to child sex abuse allegations. A group of young women say the abuse stretched back nearly two decades. So what took so long? This is the story of those women who say they survived the abuse, took matters into their own hands and are still fighting for the girls they used to be.

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0:00.0	from LPM, Louisville Public Media.
0:04.3	They say it started at a small Christian school in Louisville, Kentucky.
0:09.0	He would say, like, if you love me, you'll do this, so I thought it was normal.
0:13.3	One girl said it happened in the hallway of a public high school.
0:17.0	How do you know how to hunt those girls down? Like, you know the ones to target.
0:21.0	Another behind the closed door of a middle school office.
0:24.4	And he would tell me that he was going to adopt me out of foster care so that I could live with him and we could be together and not have to hide.
0:30.7	They say it happened over 18 years at least four different schools at the hands of the same two men, Ronnie and Donnie Stoner.
0:39.0	Those men, trusted educators, football coaches, and twins are now facing more than 50 charges
0:46.6	related to alleged child sex abuse. So why did it take so long?
0:55.0	I went straight to administration and said something.
0:57.0	I did the right thing.
0:59.0	They filled us, just like everybody else filled us.
1:02.0	I told y'all, I warned y'all, and now look at all these girls who y'all could have prevented or helped.
1:09.0	This is a story about a group of women who say they survived the abuse, who took matters
1:15.3	into their own hands and are still fighting for the girls they used to be.
1:20.3	You want to use me as a pawn?
1:21.6	I'm going to use all too.
1:22.5	I'm smart as fuck.
1:23.6	This is my story to tell.
1:25.4	That's another reason I'm going to shut up.
1:27.2	And the wheels of justice are turning.
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