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Since 1990, USA Gymnastics has kept a list of people permanently banned from coaching for sexual abuse and other reasons. The list includes Robert Dean Head, a USAG coach in Kentucky who in 1992 pled guilty to raping a 12-year-old, and Don Peters, the national coach for the 1984 Olympic team, who was banned in 2011 after two former gymnasts accused him of sexual abuse.
Her mother reported the abuse to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, the lawsuit says. Black and Holley were accused of pressuring a 16-year-old boy to send them nude pictures of himself.
In March 2012, a mother came to the Key Biscayne Police Department with her 14-year-old daughter, who had been sent steamy love letters from a grown man — Oscar Olea, her 26-year-old gymnastics ...
A particularly egregious case involves coach William McCabe, who was fired by a Florida gym in 1996 after being accused of preying on young athletes. Report: USA Gymnastics ignored dozens of ...
In 1995, the Women's Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) program at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) faced accusations of abuse, with Coach Mark Calton being accused of hitting a 10 year old gymnast, with two other girls stating that their coach used emotional abuse calling them "fat" and "ugly".
Lawrence Gerard Nassar (born August 16, 1963) [4] is an American serial child rapist and former family medicine physician. From 1996 to 2014, he was the team doctor of the United States women's national gymnastics team, where he used his position to exploit and sexually assault hundreds of young athletes as part of the largest sexual abuse scandal in sports history.
Miami-Dade police have joined the Key Biscayne Police Department’s investigation of gymnastics coach Oscar Olea, a new development in the probe of a man accused of sexually abusing underage ...
It took more than 10 years from the first reports of abuse to USA Gymnastics cutting ties with Nasser. Former Olympic gymnasts recounted that an FBI investigation was botched, further victimizing ...