According to China News Network, Global Times and other media reports, the largest sexual assault case in the history of American sports that lasted for five years (the sexual assault case of Larry Nassar, a former team doctor of the American women's gymnastics team), was finally settled with 380 million US dollars in damages. According to court documents, more than 500 victims sought compensation. Under the victims' settlements with the American Gymnastics Association, the American Olympic and Paralympic Committees and their insurance companies, they will receive up to $380 million in compensation.
Larry Nassar, a former U.S. women's gymnastics team, is in court on November 22, 2017
Team of Victims' Lawyers: Government officials who have been prosecuted for dereliction of duty will also be prosecuted
On February 5, 2018, the U.S. gymnastics team former team physician Nassar sexual assault case was finally pronounced in the local court according to IC photo
According to the Wall Street Journal, the $380 million in damages is also the largest amount ever paid to victims of sexual abuse. Under the settlement, USA Gymnastics will directly contribute about $34 million, plus a loan of $6 million to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, for compensation. As part of the settlement, USA Gymnastics, together with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Commission and its insurance companies, agreed to designate some board seats to victims of sexual assault and to pursue other new policies aimed at protecting athletes from future sexual assault. At least one member of the Gymnastics Association's committee responsible for safe sports and athletes' health is also given to victims.
According to CNN reported on the 14th, the U.S. Olympic Committee also pledged to allocate $5 million to promote the reforms promised by the American Gymnastics Association. The agency said in a statement on the 13th, "We are very happy to reach an agreement with the injured athletes." We pay deep tribute to the tremendous strength and courage these women have shown. We recognize the failure to protect them and are sorry for the serious harm they have suffered". "In addition to actively participating in mediation and facilitating reconciliation, the U.S. Olympic Committee has undertaken sweeping reforms to combat sexual assault, support athletes and victims, and strengthen protections for athletes against any form of abuse," the statement said.
The victim's team of lawyers said on the 13th that they will continue to collect evidence and prosecute government officials for dereliction of duty. According to CNN, a report on the FBI investigation released by the U.S. Department of Justice in July found that FBI officials failed to respond to nassar's allegations with extreme seriousness and urgency, made many fundamental mistakes, and violated multiple FBI policies in conducting investigation activities, resulting in Nassar's sexual assault lasting several months after the case was first exposed.
Gymnastics Olympic champions such as Biles were among the victims
The protagonist of the case, Larry Nassar, 57, has worked at Michigan State University and the American Gymnastics Association for a long time, starting as a sports trainer for the U.S. gymnastics national team in 1986. While working at the University of Michigan, Nassar, an associate professor of medicine, was the team doctor of the university's women's gymnastics team, as well as providing medical care for other women's sports teams, and Nassar also served as a doctor for the American gymnastics team for a long time, and was a team doctor on the four-time Olympic Games women's gymnastics team.
Over the course of his decades-long career, Nassar has repeatedly sexually assaulted gymnasts in the name of therapy, including a large number of minors. Between 1997 and 2015, seven women mentioned Nassar's misconduct to coaches, trainers, school officials and even the police, and the police investigated Nassar twice, but they were all dismissed. In 2014, Michigan State University launched an investigation into Nassar, but it was decided that Nassar was innocent. It wasn't until 2016, when a flood of media coverage, and athletes came forward to make accusations, that prosecutors tracked it down...
Biles and other gymnasts testified
Nassar is currently serving a 60-year sentence in federal prison. After the Nassar East Window incident, more than 150 women publicly revealed in court that he had sexually assaulted them, including Bayers, Maroni and other U.S. gymnastics Olympic champions, who had reprimanded the FBI for inaction at the U.S. Senate hearing, leaving Nassar at many years of impunity.
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