Imo, more troubling than the showers or nudging a leg, were the letters JS wrote to some of the boys. Basically love letters, written with the tone of a broken heart, as if from a broken-hearted young person to their recent bf or gf.
The showers and swimming and touching may be patterns and grooming, but while creepy in the context we have now, without sexual contact, those actions could maybe be argued in such a way to create reasonable doubt. The letters may fall under that category as well, but they were the additional smoke signal that convinced me there was a fire. Boundary issues and a lack of general awareness of others' perceptions is one thing, odd as those behaviors are to the majority of people, but the letters tie it all together more than any other single piece of evidence. That shows a startling lack of understanding acceptable levels of maturity vav older-younger relationships on JS's part, imo. At that point, is it a mental-illness issue? Without the victims' testimony, maybe. But if those testimonies are going to get a free pass by the defense.....
That said, none of McQ / fam, C/S/S/P, etc. in that first wave could have ever known about the letters back in 2001, and wouldn't without the evidence gathered by investigators. They may have seen smoke, but should not have been expected to proclaim it a fire..... That, of course, was Raykovitz's role.
And Harmon's. Where was Harmon in all this?? And we now know that Pa State Police and local LE knew about JS long before 2009. What was going on to stop them from acting on their suspicions and information? (We think we know, but still!)