Convicted abuser Larry Nassar stabbed in prison, Sue FBI $1 billion over Nassar investigation, Clergy sexual abuse crisis at forty with 100 bishops out of office

 

- Convicted abuser and ex-gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar stabbed in prison

- Simone Biles and others to sue FBI for $1bn over Larry Nassar investigation

- The clergy sexual abuse crisis at forty with 100 bishops out of office

 

Convicted abuser and ex-gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar stabbed in prison – report by Edwin Rios July 10, 2023

Larry Nassar, the former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor who was convicted of decades of abuse of women and girls under the guise of medical treatment, was reportedly stabbed at a federal prison in Florida on Sunday....

In 2018, in an end to the biggest sexual abuse scandals in US sports history, hundreds of women and girls gave victim impact statements against Nassar, detailing allegations of abuse as far back as the 1990s.

Several athletes, including the Olympians Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, testified that they relayed allegations to coaches, trainers and others which were not reported to authorities.

More than 100 women, including the Olympian Simone Biles, sued the US government for more than $1bn over the FBI’s failure to take action after learning of allegations against Nassar in 2015. That inaction allowed Nassar to continue to abuse women and girls for more than a year before he pleaded guilty in 2017.

Michigan State University, whose president, Lou Anna Simon, and athletic director, Mark Hollis, resigned amid fallout from the scandal, agreed a $500m settlement with more than 300 women and girls, a sum far larger than the $60m Penn State University paid to victims of the former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

MSU had been accused of ignoring and failing to act to stop Nassar during his decades of abuse.
USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee agreed a $380m settlement with more than 500 women and girls.
In 2018, a judge in Michigan sentenced Nassar to more than 175 years in prison..... https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/convicted-abuser-and-ex-gymnastics-doctor-larry-nassar-stabbed-in-prison-report/ar-AA1dFU1a

 

Simone Biles and others to sue FBI for $1bn over Larry Nassar investigation
Published 8 June 2022 By Holly Honderich BBC News, Washington

Women who say they were sexually assaulted by a disgraced US national gymnastics team doctor plan to sue the FBI for $1bn (£800m).
Claimants say the FBI mishandled credible complaints of sexual assaults by Larry Nassar.
They include Olympic gymnastics gold medallists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney.

Nassar is serving up to 175 years in prison for molesting gymnasts.
The agency's own watchdog found the FBI disregarded allegations about Nassar and made early errors in its investigation.

Last year, a long-awaited report from the US justice department's Office of the Inspector General gave a scathing assessment of the federal agency's investigation into Nassar.

Various missteps and cover-ups by FBI agents allowed Nassar's abuse to continue for more than a year after the case was first opened in 2015, the report found.

The majority of claimants in these suits say Nassar assaulted them after his abuse was reported to the FBI in 2015. Most were athletes with the USA Gymnastics programme or with Michigan State University, where Nassar maintained a clinic. The FBI field office Nassar's abuse was reported to took limited action and did not document any investigation or alert other authorities.

"My fellow survivors and I were betrayed by every institution that was supposed to protect us - the US Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics, the FBI and now the Department of Justice," McKayla Maroney, an Olympic gold medallist, said in a statement.
"It is clear that the only path to justice and healing is through the legal process."
Two weeks ago, the US Justice Department decided not to prosecute the two FBI agents accused of mishandling the investigation. The plaintiffs are seeking different amounts in damages but their total claims are expected to exceed $1bn.

The Collective Administrative Claims are being filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act, which allows people who have been harmed by negligent or wrongful actions of the federal government to seek compensation.
Under federal law, the FBI has six months to respond to the claims. Lawsuits may follow, depending on the FBI's response. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61735319

The clergy sexual abuse crisis at forty with 100 bishops out of office

 

Gilbert Gauthe’s case, back in July 1983, marks the beginning of the sexual abuse crisis; we reach its 40th anniversary with no end on sight
English Edition Rodolfo Soriano-Núñez Sábado, 01 Julio, 2023

On the 40th anniversary of the sexual abuse crisis, Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, is the 100th bishop forced to resign.

Religion and public life: Jason Berry and Richard Sipe provided two key elements to understan the clergy sexual abuse crisis an accountability-centered-narrative and the so-called scarlet bond.

Sometime in July of 1983, then priest Gilbert Gauthe was relieved from his duties at the St. John parish in the Lafayette diocese in Louisiana. His dismissal, accurately depicted by Jason Berry in a series of stories published in 1985 started what we now see as the 40-year long crisis of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

For the last four decades a deluge of news about sexual predator priests has been inundating news outlets all over the world. In all its misery, the crisis has helped make the global public opinion aware of the crisis in the Catholic Church, in other religious organizations, and in many other institutions and settings....

If Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward proved how “the most powerful man in the world” could be forced out of office by the media, Jason Berry and his colleagues in news outlets all over the world have played a role in forcing out of office at least 100 Catholic bishops and countless priests, because of their role in the sexual abuse crisis.

Thanks to Berry and those who followed him, like the journalists at The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, a narrative on the need to make clergy accountable of their behavior took hold.
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