2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The remembered American Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney, 21, revealed through her social networks that she was a victim of sexual abuse since she was just 13 years old.
Maroney, who was part of the women's team that won the gold medal at the London 2012 Olympics, said that for years she was abused by Dr. Larry Nassar, who worked for nearly three decades with the Federation's medical team. of the United States Gymnastics and now faces charges of more than 125 women for sexual harassment.
"Silence has empowered the wrong people for a long time and it is time to regain power," reads part of the young woman's message and added the hashtag #MeToo, with which women around the world are revealing their cases. personal sexual abuse.
"Dr. Nassar told me that he was receiving 'necessary treatment that he had given to patients for the past 30 years.' It all started when I was 13 years old, in my first training concentration in Texas with the national team, and it didn't end until I left the sport. It seems that every time this man had the opportunity I needed 'treatment',”says part of his revealing testimony. "It happened in London just before my team won the gold medal and it also happened when I won my bronze medal."
“The scariest night of my life happened when I was 15 years old. I traveled all day and night with the team to Tokyo. During the flight he gave me a sleeping pill, the next thing I remember was that he was alone in his hotel room receiving a 'treatment'. I thought I was going to die that night,”adds the girl's heartbreaking story.
Nassar, who was charged with caring for the health of America's most renowned gymnasts during the past Olympics, faces 22 first-degree criminal charges of sexual abuse and could be sentenced to life in prison if found guilty. So far, Maroney and gymnast Jamie Dantzscher, a medalist at Sidney 2000, are the only Olympic gymnast to have publicly accused Nassar.
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