The U.S. Olympic Committee took steps Monday to decertify USA Gymnastics as the governing body for the sport at the Olympic level, choosing to pursue the nuclear option for an organization that botched its own rebuilding attempt in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal involving former team doctor Larry Nassar.
Read moreThe Justice Department’s inspector general is investigating how the FBI handled sexual abuse allegations against former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
Read moreMichigan State University announced Wednesday that it has agreed to pay a $500 million settlement to hundreds of survivors sexually abused by former university and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
Read moreGymnast and Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman sued the U.S. Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics, disgraced team doctor Larry Nassar and two others in Santa Clara County Superior Court this week, adding her voice to the chorus of gymnasts subjected to “serial molestation, sexual abuse and harassment” by Nassar.
Read moreVictims of imprisoned former sports doctor Larry Nassar helped unveil what they described Monday as a sweeping rewrite of Michigan laws related to childhood sexual abuse, saying the changes would ease the ability to stop abuse and bring justice to survivors.
Read moreA Michigan judge on Monday sentenced disgraced former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar to 40 to 125 years in prison for sexually abusing young female athletes, capping three days of victims’ statements and adding to the decades of confinement he has already received.
Read moreA father of three girls sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar lunged at the disgraced former sports doctor during a sentencing hearing Friday but was quickly wrestled to the ground by sheriff’s deputies and detained.
Read moreThe fallout from the trial of Larry Nassar, the former sports doctor sentenced last week to up to 175 years in prison for sexually abusing young female gymnasts, spurred Congress to pass a bill Tuesday requiring amateur athletic associations to quickly report claims of abuse to police.
Read moreGovernor Greg Abbott on Tuesday ordered the Texas Rangers to investigate claims that disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar used the Karolyi Ranch in Walker County to sexually abuse young female athletes.
Read moreThe House followed up on the sex abuse scandal involving sports doctor Larry Nassar by passing legislation Monday that requires governing bodies for amateur athletics to promptly report abuse claims to law enforcement.
Read moreThe remaining members of the USA Gymnastics board of directors will resign under pressure from the United States Olympic Committee after the USOC threatened to decertify the organization if it didn’t take more strident steps toward change amid the fallout from the scandal surrounding former team doctor Larry Nassar.
Read moreAfter a week of more than 150 wrenching victim-impact statements, a Michigan judge sentenced former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar to 40 to 175 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting young female athletes. With a separate 60-year child pornography sentence, Nassar will almost certainly die in prison but the inquiry into one of the worst sexual abuse cases in American sports has just begun.
Read moreOlympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney sued the U.S. Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics and the University of Michigan in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, claiming she was forced to keep silent about being sexually abused by Olympic team doctor Larry Nassar.
Read moreThe team doctor accused of sexually abusing dozens of young athletes on the U.S. gymnastics team and at Michigan State University was sentenced Thursday to 60 years on child pornography charges, and will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.
Read moreA judge on Friday ordered a longtime doctor at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics to stand trial on charges of sexually assaulting six young gymnasts who said he molested them while they were seeking treatment for various injuries.
Read moreFormer USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, already facing nine charges including first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person under age 13, was also charged with sexual assault Wednesday in a growing scandal.
Read moreEighteen women and girls are the latest to sue over a former USA Gymnastics physician’s alleged sexual abuse, accusing the organization and Michigan State University of turning a blind eye to assault complaints.
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