In 2018, Larry Nassar was found guilty of sexually abusing multiple young athletes under his care as a doctor for USA Gymnastics, with more than 150 women and girls giving testimony of abuse. At the time of his sentencing, Nassar wrote a letter stating that the FBI had investigated him in 2015 and didn’t file charges.
Today, the Senate is holding a hearing regarding the FBI’s mishandling of the Nassar case, and the proceedings include testimonies by gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols, and Aly Raisman. In Biles’s heartbreaking testimony, she said that she survived Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse, and that blame is shared with the systems of oversight that failed to protect gymnasts.
“I am proud of my representation of gymnastics. I am also a survivor of sexual abuse,” Biles testified. “And I believe without a doubt that the circumstances that led to my abuse and allowed it to continue are directly the result of the fact that the organizations created by Congress to oversee and protect me as an athlete — USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee — failed to do their jobs.
“To be clear, I blame Larry Nassar and I also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse,” she continued in no uncertain terms. “USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee knew that I was abused by their official team doctor long before I was ever made aware of their knowledge.
Extreme courage! May she find peace.
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