USA Gymnastics needs "complete cultural change" to stop abuse, Women in Cults, Fran and Dan Keller legal case information

Review: USA Gymnastics needs "complete cultural change" to stop abuse
CBS/AP June 27, 2017
  
USA Gymnastics needs a "complete cultural change" to better protect athletes from sexual abuse, according to an independent review of the embattled organization's practices.

The report released Tuesday by former federal prosecutor Deborah Daniels recommends that all USA Gymnastics members be required to immediately report suspected sexual misconduct to legal authorities and the U.S. Center for SafeSport. Daniels also suggested that USA Gymnastics prohibit adults from being alone with minor gymnasts "at all times" and bar unrelated adults from sharing or being alone in a sleeping room with gymnasts. She also recommended preventing adult members from having "out of program" contact with gymnasts through email, text or social media.

USA Gymnastics ordered the review last fall following a series of civil lawsuits filed against the organization and a former team doctor by a pair of gymnasts who claim the physician sexually abused them during their time on the U.S. national team. USA Gymnastics has denied wrongdoing. The organization stated it went to authorities quickly in the summer of 2015 after hearing claims of abuse against Dr. Larry Nassar -- who'd been working with the U.S. Olympic and national teams, and other athletes, for three decades -- but later amended the timeline following a Wall Street Journal report, saying it conducted a five-week internal review before going to the FBI.

To date, more than 60 women have filed complaints. Some believe that number may reach into the hundreds. ... 
A Michigan judge on Friday ordered Nassar to stand trial on charges of sexually assaulting six young gymnasts who said he molested them while they were seeking treatment for various injuries. It is one of four criminal cases against Nassar in the state.....
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/usa-gymnastics-needs-complete-cultural-change-to-stop-sexual-abuse/


Women in Cults
The Conversation

Prayers and preparation for the apocalypse - two women share with Kim Chakanetsa their experiences of life in strict religious communities they would call cults.

Natacha Tormey was born into an international evangelical group and led a highly regimented life in communes in Thailand, Indonesia and France. She says physical discipline and sexual abuse were common, and as children they were separated from their parents. As a teenager she began to question the ideas of the leaders, and at 18 she left the cult and her family behind. Natacha has now settled in the UK and is the author of 'Cults - A Bloodstained History'.

Claire Ashman grew up in a strict religious community in Australia. She left at 18 to get married, but a few years later her husband joined them up to what she now calls a doomsday cult. Claire and her eight children spent their life behind barbed wire fences and there was limited contact with the outside world. Much time was spent preparing for an impending apocalypse. A decade ago, Claire and her family left. She now calls herself an anti-cult activist.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0548sbl


Fran and Dan Keller legal case information
https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/frans-day-care/

Petition to Stop Attacks Against Child Abuse and Ritual Abuse Survivors and Neil Brick
https://www.change.org/p/protect-child-abuse-survivors-petition-to-stop-attacks-against-child-abuse-and-ritual-abuse-survivors-and-neil-brick  

Articles and Research by Neil Brick http://neilbrick.com   #Neil_Brick #NeilBrick

Ritual abuse exists all over the world
http://childabusewiki.org/index.php?title=Ritual_Abuse

Child and Ritual Abuse Conference in Connecticut - August 2017
https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/