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McKayla Maroney eviscerates Team USA over years-long abuse: Gymnast reveals she was left alone, naked and crying at 15 with Larry Nassar 'lying on top of her' - and had to compete at Olympics with broken foot AND concussion because he LIED about injuries
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | August 2, 2021 | Christopher Eberhart and Charlie Lankston

Posted on 08/02/2021 9:02:47 AM PDT by Cecily

ymnast McKayla Maroney has unleashed on Team USA and USA Gymnastics over the abuse she suffered at the hands of pedophile doctor Larry Nassar, recalling how at age 15, she was left 'alone, naked' while he 'lay on top of her' as she sobbed for 50 minutes.

The 2012 Olympic gold and silver medalist lifted the lid on the horrors she endured while competing for the national team, claiming that she was 'banned' from seeing or speaking to her parents while traveling with her Team USA coaches, whose 'care' she was left in while she was being sexually abused by Nassar.

Speaking out in the wake of this year's vault final, the gymnast, now 25, also recalled how she was forced to compete in the London Games in 2012 with a broken foot, a concussion, and a busted nose after Nassar lied to coaches about the extent of her injuries.

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To: Cecily

21 posted on 08/02/2021 9:15:58 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (There's a difference between hate speech and speech that you hate)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Team USA should probably spend less time appeasing the Woke Left and more time cracking down on the pedophiles in their midst. Sounds like women’s gymnastics has been a horror show for years.

Sounds like the Catholic Church or the woke boyscouts. Parents need to wake up.

22 posted on 08/02/2021 9:16:09 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: ConservativeMind

It is sad. Only a teen getting repeatedly raped by your “coach/doctor”. Hopefully he gets the Dahmer prison treatment.
Also, I hope she finds peace eventually.


23 posted on 08/02/2021 9:16:48 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: PeterPrinciple

But still decided that going for the medals was more important...


24 posted on 08/02/2021 9:17:21 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: ConservativeMind
I’ve seen that behavior from all sorts of previously “good girls,” as they attempt to “own” their sexuality to make up for having lost it under rape situations.

It's also why a lot of homosexuals turned out to be molested as boys, they "turned" to cope with it, as if to try to convince themselves that they really wanted it.

25 posted on 08/02/2021 9:17:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 1Old Pro

The Woke folks are most likely to be sex perverts and abusers.

They are trying to hide behind fake virtue.


26 posted on 08/02/2021 9:18:28 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: dfwgator

Yes.


27 posted on 08/02/2021 9:18:30 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Cecily

They should just have women coaches and doctors. (no dykes)


28 posted on 08/02/2021 9:19:25 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: stinkerpot65

If the abuse was with USA Team, and it was, then I have to wonder about the other national teams such as China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Japan,,,the list is almost possibly endless


29 posted on 08/02/2021 9:20:27 AM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: glorgau

Were you raped at 14 y/o?
Do you know how you would respond?


30 posted on 08/02/2021 9:20:49 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Cecily

31 posted on 08/02/2021 9:21:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Trumpet 1

Romania was really bad as well.


32 posted on 08/02/2021 9:21:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bgill

If you are a big time performer (Olympic athlete, ballerina, etc.) You don’t live with your parents typically.


33 posted on 08/02/2021 9:21:19 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: Cecily

The drama....


34 posted on 08/02/2021 9:21:56 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: Cecily

“recalling how at age 15, she was left ‘alone, naked’ while he ‘lay on top of her’ as she sobbed for 50 minutes.”

It’s not very clear what she’s saying happened. Did he rape her and then lay on top of her for 50 minutes? If so, is this one of the crimes for which he was convicted?

What is to be done with this information? Larry Nassar is in prison for the rest of his life. Should gymnastics be cancelled? Should Team USA not enter a gymnastics team? Not many people are watching as it is.


35 posted on 08/02/2021 9:23:05 AM PDT by cdcdawg (It's all so tiresome.)
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To: redgolum

As a parent, I would never allow my kids to do anything that would have required them being away from home under supervision of other adults, like that.

Sorry, a medal isn’t worth it.


36 posted on 08/02/2021 9:23:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cgbg

Keen insight


37 posted on 08/02/2021 9:23:47 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Cecily

I watched a documentary about Nassar and women’s gymnastics.

I have a few years behind me, so I am not too surprised when a man acts like a pig, and Nassar is a pig.

The real story to me was how many of the females and their parents were evidently OK with Nassar behaving this way.

People will put up with a lot if they think fame and fortune is possible.

They really only went after Nassar when a neighbor kid complained and the police found child porn on Nassar’s computer.


38 posted on 08/02/2021 9:25:32 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Cecily

I’m glad the worst thing my daughter’s has to deal with were school bullies. That was an easy lesson. I can’t imagine having to help a young adult or adolescent through something like this


39 posted on 08/02/2021 9:27:29 AM PDT by msrngtp2002 (Just my opinion.)
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To: Cecily

Here is yet another example of why sexual sin occupies such a large part of the Bible.

The waves of chaos and destruction caused by submitting to selfish and uncontrolled urges ripples out far beyond our individual ability to comprehend. Look at the damage and controversy this sick Larry Nassar has brought on these girls, the sport, the olympics and the entire country


40 posted on 08/02/2021 9:29:37 AM PDT by PGR88
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