Hi, Folks -

Looks like we haven't been covering this. Understandable, really, given all that's been going on since the Harvey Weinstein story broke and the fat that the sheer size and scope of this scandal makes one want to turn away from it.

For the record, though, Wikipedia says:

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USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal

The USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal involves the sexual abuse of female athletes, primarily minors, by Larry Nassar, a former USA Gymnastics national team osteopathic physician. He is named in hundreds of lawsuits filed by athletes who allege that he sexually abused them under the pretense of giving them medical treatment. Since the first public allegations were made in September 2016, more than 150 women, including former USA Gymnastics national team members Jamie Dantzscher, Jeanette Antolin, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, Maggie Nichols, Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles, and Jordyn Wieber, have accused Nassar of sexually abusing them. It is one of the biggest sexual abuse scandals in sports history.[1][2][3][4]

On July 11, 2017, Nassar pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges and was sentenced to 60 years in prison on December 7, 2017. On November 22, 2017, he pleaded guilty to seven charges of first-degree sexual assault and entered another guilty plea a week later to three additional charges of sexual assault. On January 24, 2018, Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison, set to run after Nassar serves the 60-year federal prison sentence for child pornography.

USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, where Nassar was a faculty member, have been accused of enabling Nassar's abuse[5][6][7] and are named as defendants in civil lawsuits that former gymnasts have filed against Nassar.

More:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Gymnastics_sex_abuse_scandal

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