US Olympic gymnasts McKayla Maroney (left) and Aly Raisman (right) participate in a press conference after the Senate court hearing | Photo: EFE
Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman called for an independent investigation into the handling of the sexual abuse allegations against Larry Nassar by the FBI and USA Gymnastics.
The last: Raisman, 27, was one of four elite gymnasts who testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols, to report to the FBI for not having investigated the accusations against the former doctor before. from the USA Gymnastics team.
- The athlete recounted how an FBI agent dismissed her reports of abuse, after sharing similar stories in emotional testimony Wednesday.
- Nassar is serving up to 175 years in prison after pleading guilty to abusing 10 of the more than 265 accusers who came forward.
- The FBI did not open an investigation into Larry Nassar until almost a year later, when it is estimated that the doctor had already assaulted 70 other gymnasts.
What do they say? “The agent kept downplaying my abuse and telling me that it didn’t seem like a big deal and that maybe I should drop the case,” Raisman said Thursday on the “TODAY” program.
- FBI Director Chris Wray, who was not in charge of the bureau at the time, told the Senate committee on Wednesday that of the two agents who lied about their actions, one has retired and the other has been fired.
- “I do not want another young gymnast, Olympian or any individual to experience the horror that I and hundreds of others have endured before, during and which continues to this day in the wake of Larry Nassar’s abuse,” revealed Simon Biles.
Main source of the news: NBC News
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