Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom announced that after two criminal trials resulting in hung juries, his office will be dismissing the criminal charges previously filed on September 13, 2018 against Alfred John O’Neill (also known as “Rocky” O’Neill), age 63, of Savage. In May of 2018, the U.S. Center for SafeSport, a nonprofit organization charged with investigating and preventing sex abuse within youth and amateur sports, received a report that during 1988-1989 a female swimmer had been sexually abused on multiple occasions by her former swimming coach, Alfred O’Neill. In their role as a mandated reporter, this information was forwarded to the Burnsville Police Department who began a criminal [Read more…] about No further prosecution to be pursued against former swimming coach