justice to come before us. and i want cooperation. i d like to hear their testimony. can i say one thing about them not showing up? sure. also, the message by them not showing up to me sends that child abuse doesn t matter. and i think that s something that people in positions of power and these powerful organizations need to think about, is that the message that they are sending that abuse doesn t matter. i think it s completely shocking and disturbing that they didn t think it was important or they didn t think that what happened to us, you know, i have to speculate, wasn t bad enough for them to come. it s really unacceptable and hopefully we will get to hear their testimonies and if there is another hearing they will
girls said nassar had sexually abused them over the past two decades. he was sentenced up to 175 years in prison and the justice department found that the fbi officials who were investigating the allegations violated the agency s policies by making false statements and failing to properly document the complaints. among today s senate committee witnesses, simone biles, who said that, quote, the entire system enabled the abuse that she and her teammates suffered for so many years. to be clear, i blame larry nassar and i also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse. how much is a little girl worth? i sit before you today to raise my voice so that no little girl must endure what i, the athletes at this table and the countless others who needlessly suffered under nassar s guys of medical
faith with you and with all of the athletes who may be survivors and victims of this kind of abuse. you are the faces and voices that will achieve real change in this country. the enablers, the culture, the system, it s more than just one monster predator like larry nassar. there s a much broader responsibility and a need for broader accountability and that s what we re going to see, action and accountability. other questions? yes. do you guys think that there needs to be more [ inaudible ]
treatment. let s be honest, by not taking immediate action from my report, they allowed a child molester to go free for more than a year. this inaction directly allowed nassar s abuse to continue. what is the point of reporting abuse if our own fbi agents are going to take it upon themselves to bury that report in a drawer? they had legal, legitimate evidence of child abuse and did nothing. if they re not going to protect me, i want to know who are they trying to protect? my reports of abuse were not only buried by usag, usopg but also mishandled by federal law enforcement officers who failed to follow their most basic duties. the fbi and others within both usag and usopc knew that nassar molested children and did nothing to restrict his access.
of the survivors of the abuse inflicted by larry nassar. they re also with them senators grassley and blumenthal after this gut-wrenching testimony this morning about what they suffered and why the procedures that are already in place at the fbi were not followed. jessica howard there said this is not as much a conversation about which new laws need to be implemented but if they followed the policy that was already in place up to the estimate 120 victims would not be on this list as being victimized by larry nassar. there s so many sickening elements of this story and that is perhaps the most, that it didn t have to happen. had they listened to mikayla maroney in 2015, all of the young women who came after that didn t have to be victimized. they made that point over and over again. you can see not only were they elite athletes, they re elite human beings. under this unimaginable pressure, all of these cameras, all of these questions,