The Girls, Part 1: 'I need to tell you something'
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Louisville Public Media
4.5 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From LPM, Louisville Public Media. |
| 0:04.3 | Support for this podcast comes from LG&E, |
| 0:07.7 | with a reminder that the warning signs of a gas leak |
| 0:10.0 | are the smell of rotten eggs, |
| 0:12.0 | dead plants near healthy plants, |
| 0:13.8 | or a hissing sound. |
| 0:15.5 | Leave immediately and call 911. |
| 0:18.3 | More gas safety tips at LGE-kU.com slash gas safety. A listener note, this story contains accounts |
| 0:26.5 | of child sex abuse. On the seventh floor of the courthouse in Louisville, Kentucky, four |
| 0:33.3 | women are waiting. They're nervous, nauseous. 21-year-old Alyssa Foster hasn't slept well in days. |
| 0:40.5 | I'm so scared. Every time the elevators open, my heart drops. They've been waiting all morning for two |
| 0:45.5 | men to emerge from the elevator. For almost 20 years, these men were respected educators and |
| 0:52.1 | football coaches, the kind of people who get featured on the news for handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving, winning football games, and changing students' lives. |
| 1:03.1 | But the women waiting at the courthouse say behind closed doors, these same two men, two brothers, were sexually abusing girls who trusted them. |
| 1:14.3 | The elevator opens. |
| 1:17.1 | Ronnie and Donnie Stoner stride into the lobby. |
| 1:21.6 | With the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, I'm Jess Clark. |
| 1:26.5 | I've spent the last year and a half getting to know |
| 1:28.8 | a group of women who say they are survivors of child sexual abuse by Ronnie and Donnie Stoner. |
| 1:34.5 | How do you know how to hunt those girls down? Like you know the ones to, you're to target. |
| 1:39.3 | I've tracked down documents, witnesses, and former classmates. That is when you say something to all the adults. |
| 1:46.4 | I've found old football coaches and pestered school officials, |
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