'How much is a little girl worth?'
No matter what you’ve heard about Dr. Larry Nassar’s serial abuse of hundreds of gymnasts, you haven’t heard it all. And what you haven’t heard is arguably much worse.
This morning, four young women, all small in stature and none over 27 years of age, laid bare their trauma at the hands of Nassar before the Senate Judiciary Committee, because that’s the only way we get things done in this country. We force victims to relive their trauma over and over and over again. And when enough people are finally outraged, change sometimes happens.
Anyone who has followed the USA Gymnastics/Michigan State University sexual abuse scandal has heard Nassar’s unforgivable sins: the digital peneration of hundreds of athletes’ genitals and anuses, the 37,000 images of child sexual abuse on his computer, his sexual arousal while “examining” his patients.
But if you stopped paying attention after Nassar’s sentencing, feeling some sense of closure, you missed the re-victimization of the athletes at the hands of those who were supposed to protect them — the FBI, USA Gymnastics (USAG), Safe Sport, and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOC).
Gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols, and Aly Raisman sat before a group largely made up of men, some of the most powerful in the world (and a few women), and told Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and the other members of the Judiciary Committee how they tried to prevent the abuse of hundreds of other victims, but were thwarted by the FBI — which Raisman accused of working in concert with USAG and the USOC.
https://deadspin.com/how-much-is-a-little-girl-worth-1847682302
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Fcuk these guys. All of them. And that goes for Rafalito Cruz and Marsha Blackburn and their fake sympathy, too.
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~SMDH~
