FBI was slow to probe Nassar while list of accusers grew
As the FBI moved at glacial pace to probe allegations that sicko Larry Nassar molested three teen gymnasts, at least 27 more women and girls say they were molested by the perverted ex- USA Gymnastics doctor, according to a report on Saturday.
Even though the bureau had videos showing Nassar’s un-gloved hands working near the genitals of girls lying facedown on his examination tables, the agency acted with little urgency, the New York Times reported.
“It’s not a fun place to dig,” Nassar said in the footage, which shows the disgusting doc kneading his hands between a girl’s legs under a towel.
“Do the hand-shaky thing,” he says, shaking his hand “vigorously” between the girl’s legs, the outlet report.
The Times counted 27 victims who say Nassar attacked them beginning in July 2015, when the FBI opened its investigation, through September 2016, when the Indianapolis Star published its blockbuster investigation of the accusations. Nassar has more than 265 accusers in total.
Emma Ann Miller told the Times she had about a dozen sessions with Nassar at his Michigan State University office over those 14 months, and said Nassar “would always find a way to touch [her] down there” during the procedures.
The FBI took a year to interview two of the three gymnasts at the center of the FBI probe; two of the three were Olympic gold medalists.
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“I never got a phone call from the police or the FBI [during those 14 months],” Gina Nichols, the mother of victim Maggie Nichols, told the newspaper. “Not one person.”
U.S.A. Gymnastics officials also had a hand in delaying the investigation, the report states.
Gina Nichols claimed the organization encouraged her to “keep quiet about the matter” after a coach overheard Maggie Nichols and elite Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman talking about Nassar’s twisted behavior and informed Maggie’s mother.
USA Gymnastics reps claim the FBI led them to believe they were not allowed to discuss the investigation, preventing them from warning Nassar’s other patients.
The FBI refused to answer the Times’ questions about the speed and nature of the investigation.