Re: 3 more ex-Colton High football players accuse wigger Grand Terrace Athletic Director of sexual misconduct

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In the spring of 2004, a Colton High School football player and 
track athlete was getting taped by Tiffany Gordon, the school’s 
athletic trainer in the locker room for a meet later that day.

Gordon flirted with the athlete, who was 16 at the time, and 
then she placed his hand on her breast, the player said in an 
interview with the Southern California News Group and according 
to a court filing obtained by the SCNG.

Gordon was wearing a black t-shirt that celebrated Colton High’s 
title-winning football season the previous fall. The back of the 
shirt listed the Yellowjackets’ victories in the school’s 
colors, crimson and gold. The front of the shirt featured four 
menacing looking players.

“Want Some?” the shirt read above the players.

“Come Get Some” the shirt said below the image.

“I want some,” the player recalled joking to Gordon.

“Then come get some,” Gordon said before she leaned over and 
began kissing the player, according to the interview and court 
filing.

“I walked away (thinking), ‘What the hell just happened?’” the 
player recalled in the interview.

The next day, Gordon, the daughter of legendary Colton High 
football coach Harold Strauss, texted the player, referred to in 
court documents as John Doe 7068 and invited him to meet her at 
a relative’s home she was housesitting where Gordon had sexual 
intercourse with him for the first time, according to the 
interview and the filing.

“That was the first time I had sex,” John Doe 7068 said in an 
interview. “I actually lost my virginity that night.”

John Doe 7068 is one of three former Colton High School players 
who allege in a lawsuit filed against Gordon and the Colton 
Joint Unified School District in San Bernardino Superior Court 
that Gordon routinely engaged in sexual misconduct with them 
throughout their high school football careers covering a period 
from 2001 to 2009.

“She was still working for the Colton school district, knowing 
what I’ve been dealing with with my own self right now and 
knowing this is part of some of the things that have formed in 
me, I don’t want that to happen to anybody and looking back 
right now I’m disgusted,” John Doe 7068 said in his interview 
with the SCNG, referring to Gordon, who is now the athletic 
director at Grand Terrace High School in the CJUSD. “I have four 
kids and if one of my kids was in that situation I’d be furious. 
So I knew she was still in the school district, that was one of 
the big deals. I want to make sure that she doesn’t have access 
to children anymore.

“I need to stop this.”

The suit follows a similar suit filed against Gordon and the 
CJUSD in September on behalf of six former Colton players who 
said Gordon sexually assaulted, abused and molested them with 
the knowledge of Harold Strauss and other Yellowjackets coaches 
over a six-year period between 2001 and 2007.

In a series of interviews with SCNG and in court documents the 
six players allege that Gordon had sexual intercourse with and 
performed oral sex on players who were between the ages of 14 
and 17 in the school’s locker room, training room, bathrooms, 
weight room and football trailer as well as at her parents’ 
house during weekly meetings between the coaches and top 
players. One player alleged in an interview and the lawsuit that 
Gordon had sex with him at least 50 times during his senior year 
at Colton High, when he was 17.

“The amount of sexual abuse that took place at Colton High 
School is truly alarming,” said Brian Williams, an attorney for 
the players. “As more and more survivors come forward, the full 
extent of the institutional failures that enabled this systemic 
abuse becomes more obvious. School leadership had an obligation 
to educate and safeguard these students, but wholly failed to 
accomplish these fundamental tasks.”

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Gordon is currently on a leave of absence, a school official 
said. The CJUSD declined to say when Gordon was placed on leave 
or whether she is being paid while on leave.

Gordon has not responded to multiple requests for comment. 
Gordon has been interviewed by the Colton Police Department, 
according to Paul Wallin, Gordon’s criminal defense attorney.

“My client vehemently denies any and all allegations that she 
sexually assaulted any students in any way,” said Wallin, who 
represents California Teachers Association members who have been 
accused of sexual misconduct. “As of this time no criminal 
charges have been filed.

“If the allegations were taken seriously (by law enforcement) 
why have no criminal charges been filed?”

But under California law, charges for misdemeanor statutory rape 
must be filed within one year, three years for felony statutory 
rape.

“Let’s put it this way – if that’s what the prosecuting attorney 
believes, fantastic,” Wallin said.

The CJUSD has hired a Sacramento law firm to conduct an 
investigation into the allegations against Gordon. It is the 
same law firm that Mater Dei hired last year to investigate 
allegations of bullying and other misconduct within the school’s 
football and athletic programs.

“The sheer number of survivors coming forward with allegations 
of sexual abuse by this woman indicates a public safety 
nightmare for students of a magnitude that the Inland Empire has 
never seen,” Michael Reck, an attorney for the players, said. 
“Officials could have and should have reported this to law 
enforcement long ago and these children could have been spared.”

In response to a series of questions this week from the SCNG, 
including whether the district is aware of any allegations of 
sexual misconduct by Gordon during her tenure at Grand Terrace 
High School, a CJUSD spokesperson said in a statement, “We have 
been in contact with the Colton Police Department regarding 
their investigation and continue to be partners with them in 
this matter. Because this is still in the investigatory phase, 
we have not been given clearance to provide further information 
at this time.”

Harold Strauss died in December 2019 at the age of 60.

SCNG does not name the survivors of sexual abuse.

The lawsuit was filed within the three-year window created by 
Assembly Bill 218, which was signed into law by Gov. Gavin 
Newsom in 2019 and went into effect January 1, 2020.

Under the new law, alleged survivors have a three-year period to 
file past claims that had expired under the state’s statute of 
limitations. That three-year window closes on December 31.

Alleged survivors must file civil suits within eight years of 
becoming an adult or three years from the date an adult survivor 
“discovers” or should have discovered they were sexually abused, 
under current California law.

Under Harold Strauss, Colton High School’s football program 
gained a national reputation as a pipeline to schools in the so-
called Power 5 conferences and the NFL. Six players from Colton, 
a school with less than 2,000 students, were on NFL rosters 
during both the 2014 and 2015 seasons. A year later, 10 former 
Colton players were invited to NFL training camps. Colton’s 2005 
roster included six future NFL players.

But within the Yellowjackets program, there was rampant talk 
amongst players and coaches about Gordon’s alleged routine 
sexual abuse of Colton players as young as 14, according to 
interviews with former players and the two lawsuits.

“The number of people who have now come forward is nothing short 
of astonishing,” said Jemma Dunn, an attorney for the players. 
“Only a complete and utter lack of oversight could facilitate 
this level of pervasive abuse.”

Tiffany Gordon joined her father at Colton shortly after he took 
over as head coach in 2000. A year later, John Doe 7068, then a 
14-year-old freshman, alleges that Gordon began grooming him by 
placing his hands on her breasts and began massaging his body 
“under the guise of providing medical treatment and physical 
therapy,” according to the suit. In the spring of 2004, Gordon 
began having sexual intercourse and performing oral sex on the 
player on a regular basis on the Colton campus and in private 
homes, according to the former player and the lawsuit.

The former player described his interaction with Gordon as 
“completely transactional.”

“There was no emotion whatsoever,” he said. “I only talked to 
her for two things, it was either I got to get something in 
working order so I can get back on the field or sex. That was 
the relationship. There was nothing else besides that. It wasn’t 
uncommon not to talk for days or weeks.

“When I lost my virginity, I didn’t talk to her for a week after 
that.”

Eventually, John Doe 7068 said, he “emotionally shut down.”

“I lost my virginity to her and I learned what sex was by 
actually having it and not being taught about it,” John Doe 7068 
said. “I learned it was not an emotional connection. It was 
something that was separate from that. I learned that you could 
talk to someone only for that. There didn’t have to be any other 
foundation or work or anything of that regard. It damaged your 
ability to grow close to someone or even be emotionally 
vulnerable to somebody.

“And I didn’t really realize why I was that way and why I was so 
closed off emotionally and I do think this has a really big 
impact on my ability to separate those worlds and also foster an 
unrealistic expectation toward a partner. “I (developed) this 
appetite for an unrealistic view of (sex).

“It took me a few years to realize what that was.”

That realization only came in a recent therapy session, John Doe 
7068 said, when he mentioned to his therapist that he lost his 
virginity when he was 16 to a woman roughly 10 years older than 
him.

“And (the therapist) said, ‘Whoa!! Hold on. Let’s not just 
breeze by that. Hold on just don’t just pass by it,’” John Doe 
7068 said. “Then it took on a very different light to me. It 
made me realize why I had such a disconnect.”

John Doe 7069 said he heard widespread rumors during his 
freshman season in 2001 of Gordon’s alleged sexual misconduct 
with Yellow Jackets players, specifically during a team trip to 
Oregon.

A former Colton player, identified in court filings as John 7042 
said in an interview with SCNG and in the initial lawsuit 
against the school district and former trainer that he was 
sleeping in a van carrying him and his teammates to a football 
camp in Oregon when he awoke to find Gordon performing oral sex 
on him.

“I woke up shocked,” he said.

But if his teammates noticed no one said anything.

“It wasn’t out of the ordinary,” Doe 7042 said.

During his sophomore year, John Doe 7069 said Gordon “always 
placed his foot between or onto her breasts” while taping his 
legs, according to the suit. Gordon later performed oral sex on 
John Doe 7069 twice at school, according to the court filing.

A third former Colton player, John Doe 7070, also said that 
during his freshman season in 2006, Gordon also began placing 
his “feet on her breasts when she massaged his legs, and also 
moved his hands to her breasts,” according to the court filing.

“On one occasion, Gordon was taping John Doe 7070’s feet and 
began groping him over his shorts,” the lawsuit said. “She 
pulled his penis out of his shorts and commented on its 
appearance.  Gordon then began to orally copulate John Doe 7070. 
 He was only 15 years old.  Gordon fondled, groped, and orally 
copulated John Doe 7070 while he was a minor on numerous 
occasions.”

John Doe 7070 transferred to another school during his sophomore 
year but returned to Colton as a junior at which time, according 
to the lawsuit, Gordon “continued her sexual assaults, including 
fondling, groping, and oral copulation” of him.

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