Dad injects 13 y/o son with steriods..

JayMac743 · 01-16-2009, 12:18 PM

GRANDVILLE -- Patricia Johnston wishes she could go back in time and do something to keep Jim Gahan, her former husband, from having the opportunity to inject steroids into Corey, their then 13-year-old son. "But I had no idea at the time," said the lifelong Grandville resident Tuesday after a Sports Illustrated report detailing the shocking story went public on the Internet and is appearing in this week's edition of the magazine. Gahan was sentenced Jan. 7 in Tampa, Fla., to six years in a federal prison. He is believed to be the first parent convicted of providing steroids to his own child. Corey, at age 12, was one of the world's top in-line skaters for his age group. He had the trophies and wins in Michigan and elsewhere to prove it. But his father, who had a shared-custody agreement for the first seven years of his divorce from Johnston, wanted to move him from the Grand Rapids area to Ocala, Fla., a hotbed for the growing popular sport that some believed was headed for Olympic status. "He was 12, he loved to skate. He wanted to go. I look back, and I know he could have skated here. The sad thing is -- he was already a champion when this all started." Corey said Tuesday he put up with the needles and injections of B-12 vitamins, human growth hormone and steroids in the from of synthetic testosterone because he was told by his father and others it would make him bigger and better."I was 13," he said. "I did what I was told."

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"Well if this isn’t the sign that the apocalypse is finally upon us then I don’t know what is. I mean is this dad for real? Injecting your 13 year old kid with steroids for inline skating! He’s lucky he didn’t get the death penalty for this stunt. I mean what happened to juicing your kids for real sports like football and baseball like back in the good old days? Seriously is our country that fucked up now that kids are juicing to see who can Rolla blade the fastest? Newsflash. You don't need muscles for that shit. You just need long hair. Listen if you want to pump some B-12 and human growth hormones into Junior so he wins the HR crown in Little League or makes the all star team than more power to you. But for X games bullshit? Makes me sad to be an American. It really does."

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