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2021-09-16 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Simone Biles: 'FBI turned a blind eye' to sexual abuse of U.S. gymnasts by team doctor Nassar

[Just The News] The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday heard testimony from U.S. champion gymnasts, including Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney, and Maggie Nichols regarding the sexual abuse they experienced for years at the hands of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.

As the hearing began, an intermittently tearful Biles told the panel that it felt like "the FBI turned a blind eye to us and went out of its way to help protect" the organizations that enabled her abuse.

"A message needs to be sent: If you allow a predator to harm children, the consequences will be swift and severe," she said.

Senators on the committee called for a hearing on the issue following an Office of the Inspector General report in July by DOJ IG Michael Horowitz, who found significant errors, omissions and untruths by FBI personnel in the investigation of Nassar.

Opening the hearing, committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) called the FBI's handling of the Nassar case a "stain on the bureau" and "a shocking picture of FBI dereliction of duty and gross incompetence."

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the committee, concurred with Durbin, calling the failure "a serious problem at the heart of the FBI, not a case of a few errant agents."

Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney detailed the abuse she endured from Nassar for years in graphic detail before the committee and excoriated the FBI's failure to pursue a timely and accurate investigation into the rampant abuse.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-16 01:27|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Simply one more step toward decriminalizing pedophilia.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-16 01:56|| 2021-09-16 01:56|| Front Page Top

#2 https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-sexual-revolution-and-children-how-the-left-took-things-too-far-a-702679.html

Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-09-16 03:46|| 2021-09-16 03:46|| Front Page Top

#3 A beloved personage in the media. Now telling a story they don't want to hear.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-16 04:59|| 2021-09-16 04:59|| Front Page Top

#4 The FBI central was aware there was a very real problem with the Indianapolis Field Office, and more than one head should roll, and that includes the head of the FBI itself.

Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-09-16 06:58|| 2021-09-16 06:58|| Front Page Top

#5 'I don’t have a good answer for you': FBI Director Wray’s extraordinary answer when asked to explain WHY gymnasts' complaints of sex abuse were ignored as agent who led probe is fired

Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-16 07:22|| 2021-09-16 07:22|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Same as "I don't remember." The only correct answer to give if you don't want to be charged with lying to the FBI.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-16 07:46|| 2021-09-16 07:46|| Front Page Top

#7 ....Were I the IOC - and I'm not, more's the pity - I would think that there is more than sufficient evidence to suspend the US from international gymnastic competitions for a few years until they can prove they have their shiat together.

THAT would get people's attention PDQ.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-09-16 10:47|| 2021-09-16 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Look. What happend is nasty, I hope it never happens again. That said we are looking at the end of the era where what went on was "the price of doing business." It was always wrong but back in the day it was how it worked. Clean it up and move on. Can we do similar with slavery? Of course not.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-16 10:52|| 2021-09-16 10:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Lest anyone think i meant otherwise. Punish the miscreants so hard they wish they were being molested.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-16 10:58|| 2021-09-16 10:58|| Front Page Top

#10 beloved personage in the media

Not so much anymore, based on how they attacked her about the Olympics. So perhaps there was more to it than we were seeing - a need to protect the Feebs?

Posted by Glenmore 2021-09-16 11:04|| 2021-09-16 11:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Evil preys on the most innocent.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-09-16 11:21|| 2021-09-16 11:21|| Front Page Top

#12 The FBI ignores crimes all the time and focuses really hard on a few crimes that will help their careers.

My advice to anyone filing a police report, start with “this right wing racist…. “

Posted by Airandee 2021-09-16 12:26|| 2021-09-16 12:26|| Front Page Top

#13 When the local authorities will do nothing for you, the FBI will do even less.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-16 18:06|| 2021-09-16 18:06|| Front Page Top

#14 $Billion industry, nevermind the social clout of the backers.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-09-16 21:09|| 2021-09-16 21:09|| Front Page Top

#15 Makes you wonder if the FBI guys are just doing a really shitty job of doing their jobs OR there is something larger lurking under the surface.

Posted by SteveS 2021-09-16 23:06|| 2021-09-16 23:06|| Front Page Top

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