Washington (DC)
CNN
February 8, 2018
By Saba Hamedy
Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman is calling for a thorough, publicly-released investigation into the sexual abuse of gymnasts, expressing doubt that current probes launched in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal go far enough.
Raisman is among more than 200 women who have publicly come forward with stories of abuse at the hands of Nassar, a former team physician. The disgraced doctor was sentenced Monday in Michigan to 40 to 125 years in prison.
“If we were that successful while we were being molested, wouldn’t we have been more successful if we had the right doctor that actually helped heal our injuries, that didn’t traumatize us? If we had people around us that genuinely wanted to help us?” she told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Thursday on “The Lead.”
The interview aired the day before the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics amid uproar around the way the US Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics handled the Nassar matter.
“I met a lot of incredible women and young girls … it was just really incredible how even though we didn’t know each other, we just felt an instant connection to each other because we’ve all been through something so horrible,” Raisman said, recalling her experience testifying in the courtroom against Nassar. “And we all feel let down by the organization … I think we all deserve to have answers. We’ve already all been through enough.”
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