The failure to properly investigate the USA Gymnastics doctor allowed him to sexually abuse 70 more athletes, lawmakers said in a Senate hearing.
Maroney, Raisman, Biles and fellow gymnast Maggie Nichols, who all testified Wednesday morning, were serially sexually abused by Nassar under the guise of medical treatment. During testimony, they called out several institutions affiliated with Nassar — including USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Michigan State University — for failing to protect them and other young athletes.
“Just as it is naive to assume the problem only rests with Nassar, it is unrealistic to think we can grasp the full extent of culpability without understanding how and why USAG and the USOPC chose to ignore abuse for decades,” she said. “And why the interplay among these three organizations led the FBI to disregard our reports of abuse.”a demand that survivors have been making“We just can’t fix a problem we don’t understand,” she said.
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