McKayla Maroney told a top USA Gymnastics coach in 2011 that she was being sexually assaulted by disgraced former team physician Larry Nassar — and was essentially ignored, she said in a television interview that aired Sunday.
Nassar was arrested in 2016, after a former gymnast came forward to publicly accuse him of abuse, and he was sentenced this year to up to 175 years in prison after getting a separate 60-year sentence for child pornography. USAG has come under fire for having been told of the former team physician’s abuse of other athletes in 2015 and allegedly being slow to alert law enforcement, as well as for allegedly working to keep victims quiet.
