Ann Arbor Figure Skating Club coach Steven Pottenger has been charged with two counts of fourth degree criminal sexual conduct with young victims. Fourth degree refers to intentional sexual contact but not penetration. Each count carries a maximum of a two-year sentence.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/washtenaw-county-gold-medalist-skating-coach-charged-with-felony-sexual-conduct

Once again, evidence that not all pedophiles are of the Bobby Moore, Ted Lamborgine, Greg Greene, Arch Sloan obvious scumbag variety. They are also coaches, priests, corporate types, doctors, old, young, rich, poor.

A hockey coach affiliated with the rink Pottenger coached out of expressed doubts about the allegations. Although he has never met the accused, the hockey coach says he would be surprised if the allegations were true because: “We go through a lot of training now a days on that kind of stuff to where it shouldn’t be happening now a days.”

A parent opined that it must be a misunderstanding because the coach is so popular and parents and guardians “are usually present.”

The community is shocked. Imagine the shock of those two kids.

Michigan State Police, this is what commitment looks like in the OCCK case:

1. Pick up the phone and speak with Marney Keenan about the status of the investigation. You have her number.
2. Pick up the phone and call Dr. Ashlen Kuersten, Director of Western Michigan University’s Cold Case Program and ask if her students can assist in digitizing the case files in the OCCK case. https://wmich.edu/news/2023/10/72963 . You know as well as I do that for any genetic genealogy results to be at all useful, your files must be accessible and usable. They are not and never have been. Your agency already partners with WMU.
3. Contact the Michigan State University Cold Case Unit at 833-725-1354 for further assistance in the above project. Your agency partners with MSU to offer internship opportunities in cold case investigations. https://online.cj.msu.edu/cold-case-unit .
4. Use some common sense with genetic genealogy results and do not allow the state lab or the FBI to drag this out unnecessarily.
5. Tell the families why a third-party lab will not be used in this case.
6. Get somebody who won’t back-burner this case up-to-speed so s/he can conduct real interviews if you get viable genetic genealogy results. Have them speak to survivors of the child rape rings in Michigan of the 1970s who have come forward over the past decade and been blown off by law enforcement so you understand the network and can cross-reference names of ring participants and enablers. Hell, have an intern from the MS program at MSU prepare you for such an interview.
7. DO YOUR JOB. Stop making civilians try to keep track of your many broken promises and failures to act.

Start with the phone calls. Stop shirking. Of course you are too busy; get help digitizing the files and put in the call before the next semester is in motion.

And stop with this nonsense; this bogus script you use to avoid transparency until you can pass the file off to another desk. It’s sickening.

Nearly 37 years ago a young woman from Maryland was reported missing after traveling to Michigan with her boyfriend. Michigan State Police do reopen some cold cases. Thanks to a reader.
— Read on www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/07/17/michigan-state-police-reopen-cold-case-of-19-year-old-who-vanished-during-road-trip/