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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday heard testimony from U.S. champion gymnasts, including Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney, and Maggie Nichols regarding the sexual abuse they experienced for years at the hands of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.As the hearing began, an intermittently tearful Biles told the panel that it felt like "the FBI turned a blind eye to us and went out of its way to help protect" the organizations that enabled her abuse."A message needs to be sent: If you allow a predator to harm children, the consequences will be swift and severe," she said. Senators on the committee called for a hearing on the issue following an Office of the Inspector General report in July by DOJ IG Michael Horowitz, who found significant errors, omissions and untruths by FBI personnel in the investigation of Nassar.
In 2018, Nassar pleaded guilty to seven counts of criminal sexual conduct in a case brought by Michigan's attorney general. He was subsequently sentenced to 40-175 years in prison following accounts from more than 150 women and girls that he had sexually abused since the early 2000s. "Every single person in authority who turned a blind eye to these young athletes' allegations is complicit in Nassar's crimes, and each one of them should be considered a predator," Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said during the hearing.One of the agents involved with the botched report and investigation of Nassar, Michael Langeman, was reportedly fired by the FBI earlier this week.