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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.
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.
Nassar was at the center of the USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandal when it was revealed that for at least 14 years of his career as the team doctor and an osteopathic physician at Michigan State ...
More than 120 victims of sex abuse by Larry Nassar called for the Justice Department on Wednesday to release its inspector general's report into the FBI's handling of the USA Gymnastics sexual ...
Athlete A is a 2020 American documentary film about the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal.Directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, the documentary follows a team of investigative journalists from The Indianapolis Star as they broke the story of doctor Larry Nassar sexually assaulting young female gymnasts and the subsequent allegations that engulfed USA Gymnastics (USAG) and its then-CEO Steve Penny.
LANSING, Mich., Jan 24 (Reuters) - Disgraced long-time USA Gymnastics team doctor LarryNassar was sentenced on Wednesday to up to 175 years in prison for molesting young female gymnasts, following ...
He has already been sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for child pornography, and prosecutors want him to get 40 to 125 years in the two state sexual assault cases.
A variety of forms of abuse have been reported in gymnastics, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Abuse has been reported in multiple countries including Australia, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Brazil, [ 5 ] Canada, [ 6 ] France, [ 7 ] Portugal, [ 8 ] the United Kingdom, [ 9 ] and the United States.