The nightmare that has suffered hundreds of gymnasts from Larry Nassar has meant a real earthquake in American and world sports.Not only because of the sexual abuses they suffered, but for how the system set aside the victims, something that is focusing the first days of the Research Committee that has opened the United States Department of Justice.
If the words of Simone Biles were already directed directly to the FBI, his partner McKayla Maroney told some episodes that put the spot.And all this without doing anything the authorities.
"I told the FBI agents) that the first thing Larry Nassar told me was that I put shorts without underwear, because that would facilitate the work.A few minutes later, he had his fingers in my vagina, "the Olympic champion in London 2012 began to tell the American team with great strength with the American team.
Then he focused on FBI's questions, which is the focus of his criticism."They asked me: 'Did I put my fingers in your right?'.I said no.They asked me if I used gloves.I said no.They asked me if this treatment helped me.I said no!This treatment was abuse and did not help me at all! "She said, angry.
In his case, the nightmare with Nassar began in 2011, during the World Cups, when he was only 15 years old."He gave me a sleeping pill on the plane to continue working in our physical preparation upon arrival.That night I was alone, naked, with him, abusing me for hours.I thought I was going to die that night.I wouldn't be able to let me go after that, but he did.I was wandering around the halls of the Tokyo hotel until 2 in the morning, with 15 years...", remember.
Those days left him marked for life, something that still made him surprise more because of the lack of empathy or support of the authorities.
"I cried as I remembered the FBI by phone.And nothing was heard on the other side of the line.I was struck by the lack of concern of the FBI agent.It was a very traumatic memory and after a minute of silence he only asked me: 'Is that all?'.Listening to those words was one of the hardest moments of all this.That my abuse was minimized and discarded by the people who were supposed to protect me...It seemed that this abuse was not enough, but it was.And they wanted to cover him up, "Maroney insisted.
FBI's negligence
The pain of the gymnast, accompanied by her companions, made many of those present in the room cry.It was not so much for these abuses, but because of the impotence of knowing that the FBI did nothing."They had legal and legitimate evidence of abuse of minors and did nothing," insisted the former Gimenasta.
With Larry Nassar and imprisoned, the Prosecutor's Office now seeks the responsibilities derived from the absence of sufficient investigation of the cases by federal agents."What is the use of denouncing the abuses if our own FBI agents will be in charge of burying that report in a drawer? Not only the FBI did not report my abuses, but when they finally documented my report 17 months later, they made completely statementsfalse about what I said, "Maroney accused.
