Multi-champion Simon Biles testified in the “Nassar case”. Saul Loeb / GETTY IMAGES / AFP.
Larry Nassar, medical coordinator for 20 years of the United States Women’s Artistic Gymnastics team, was sentenced in January 2018 to spend between 40 and 175 years behind bars, after it was proven that he sexually abused more than 300 athletes and had more than 35,000 child pornography files in his possession.
Aquilino Rosemary, a Michigan court judge, was the one who handed down the sentence and had no mercy to speak face to face with the defendant in full court: “It is my honor and privilege to convict him because he never deserves to get out of prison. . You did nothing to control what you were feeling.
“I just signed your death warrant”he added, withering.
Rosemary Aquilina and Larry Nassar face to face. REUTERS.
In any case, even when a conviction was obtained, about 90 American gymnasts, standing behind the figure of the quadruple Olympic champion Simone Biles, They are suing the FBI for $ 1 billion. not to have adequately intervened when the first accusations occurred.
What the athletes claim is that the agents of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation did not know how to adequately respond to the complaints against the doctor and, from there, he could continue to abuse girls for more than a year. Nor is it excluded that they were aware of this aberrant situation.
In 2015, the American Federation of Artistic Gymnastics notified agents at the local FBI office that three athletes had been abused, but the agency did not open a formal investigation and did not notify federal or state authorities.
“The time has come for the FBI to take responsibility,” he said. Maggie Nicholsrepresentative of the University of Oklahoma and national champion from 2017 to 2019. Along the same lines, Samantha Roy, former gymnast at the University of Michigan, he was blunt: “If the FBI had done his job, Nassar would have been stopped before he could abuse hundreds of girls, including me.”.
According to Manly, Stewart & Finaldi, a California law firm, there are nearly 90 plaintiffs among them aka raisman Y Mc Kayla Maroneypartner in the US Olympic title in the “Women’s team eventing” mode at the London 2012 Games.
Maggie Nichols, one of Nassar’s abused gymnasts. AFP / Saul Loeb.
It wasn’t until 2016 that Los Angeles agents opened an investigation against Nassar and investigated several victims, but they didn’t even alert the authorities. That year he was arrested as part of an investigation at Michigan State University.
And, speaking to Congress last year, Christopher Wraydirector of the FBI since 2017, acknowledged that there were serious errors in the actions of officials who preceded him and regretted that “They could have stopped this monster in 2015 and they didn’t know how to do it. And that’s unforgivable.”
From now on, the federal agency has a six-month period to respond to complaints filed on Wednesday, and depending on the response, legal litigation could be filed.
Source: Clarin
