It all started with a Facebook friend request from his former high school athletic trainer. Soon, memories of sexual abuse came flooding back – and opened the door for dozens more men to come forward. buzzfeednews.com/article/tylerk…
James E. Jensen, now 78 and once known as “Doc” to the Montana high school boys he worked with, is accused of sexually abusing teenage boys under the guise of a “Program” that would increase their athletic performance. buzzfeednews.com/article/tylerk…
“The Program,” as outlined in a lawsuit filed in September, included giving nude boys full-body massages, and, under the guise of a Chinese medical practice, groping them, masturbating them, and performing oral sex on some.
Everyone had to be recruited into the Program, either by another student already in it or by Jensen, who portrayed it as an elite club, according to the lawsuit filed by victims. Lawyers for the victims believe Jensen abused as many as 200 boys in the 1990s.
Jensen’s abuse happened in plain sight. Parents knew their kids went to his house multiple times a week. Various coaches sent boys to him to get full-body massages after football and wrestling practice, even when some boys objected.
Jensen was arrested and charged with 10 counts of child porn, but the statute of limitations will keep him from ever being prosecuted for abusing students.
In Miles City, to say the school district screwed up is to say friends and neighbors failed to stop a child molester.
In Miles City, to say the school district screwed up is to say friends and neighbors failed to stop a child molester.
Many victims are wracked with guilt for having recruited close friends and relatives into the Program only to find out they were later abused. Most have never even told their parents, spouses, or children what happened to them in high school.
Though a document shows the school knew 20 years ago that something was amiss, Jensen was never reported to authorities. He’s lived alongside many of his victims in Miles City, Montana— where the county attorney says Jensen often searched for porn involving young boys.
When news of the lawsuit broke, the district said it was “shocked.” But a 1997 letter to Jensen from school officials shows he was ordered to stop giving “body rub downs” to boys unsupervised, stop inviting boys to spend nights at his home, and end his “Mentorship Program.”
Decades later, many of Jensen’s victims are still coming to terms with what they endured, and want justice from the authority figures who failed to protect them. buzzfeednews.com/article/tylerk… 
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