Martha Karolyi was also informed by Penny of allegations against Nassar on July 21, 2015, according to documents provided by former USA Gymnastics senior vice president Rhonda Faehn to a Senate subcommittee. national team gymnasts at the Karolyi Ranch, according to documents obtained by the Register. Martha Karolyi said in a sworn May 23, 2017, deposition that she was first informed in June 2015 by USA Gymnastics chief executive Steve Penny of allegations that Nassar molested U.S. It does not require a reporter to be certain of abuse or neglect.” The Texas Family Code also states that “a report of child abuse is not an accusation or a proven fact. Under Texas law, any person with knowledge of suspected child abuse or neglect is required to report it to the appropriate authorities. The former gymnasts and their attorneys argue Texas officials should have pursued failure to report child abuse charges against the Karolyis. “They didn’t want to indict them or it would have happened.” “How is that possible? It doesn’t make sense. “So you indicted two people working on property owned by the Karolyis, who also ran the camps, but the people responsible for us aren’t indicted?” Antolin said. Indeed, one charge was based on her account. “They did such a poor job for the victims.”Īfter the Nassar and Van Horn indictments were announced, Antolin had to call Texas authorities to find out if one of the charges against Nassar was based on his abuse of her on the ranch. “They never followed up,” Antolin said of Texas officials. Despite repeated pledges by Texas law enforcement officials to keep former gymnasts up to date on the Nassar investigation, the women went more than a year between contacts with law enforcement if they heard from them at all.“I can’t believe they didn’t know or at least see things they should have reported,” Simpson Tuegel said of the Karolyis. There were no questions about the Karolyis’ supervision of Team USA training camps at the remote ranch, their interactions with the gymnasts or Nassar and Van Horn, or if the husband-and-wife team missed possible warning signs of Nassar’s abuse. None of the former gymnasts was questioned at all about the Karolyis by the Texas Rangers, the Walker County Sheriff or district attorney offices or any other Texas law enforcement agency.None of the 33 women was asked to testify before the Walker County grand jury and only four were interviewed by Texas authorities, according to interviews with former gymnasts and attorneys.at the Olympic Games and World Championships, the Southern California News Group has learned. Walker County and other Texas law enforcement officials, before making their decision not to pursue charges against the Karolyis, failed to interview more than 30 former gymnasts who allege they were sexually abused by Nassar under the Karolyis’ supervision while training on the ranch to represent the U.S. They argue Texas officials reached their decision without reviewing key documents or interviewing many likely survivors of Nassar’s abuse at the Texas ranch. national team directors Bela and Martha Karolyi has enraged dozens of former Olympic and World Championships team members and their supporters. The Walker County District Attorney’s office’s decision not to pursue criminal charges against former U.S. “I was like, ‘OK that’s great, but what about the Karolyis?’” “He called to say they indicted Larry and Debbie,” Antolin said. The Walker County grand jury also indicted Debbie Van Horn, USA Gymnastics’ former director of sports medicine services, on one count of child sexual assault. Olympic and USA Gymnastics national team physician Larry Nassar on six counts of sexually abusing young gymnasts at the Karolyi Ranch in Walker County in central Texas. In the second call, on June 29, a Rangers investigator informed Antolin that a grand jury had indicted former U.S. national team gymnast Jeanette Antolin received telephone calls from an investigator on two consecutive days late last month. After not hearing from Texas Rangers investigators for more than a year, former U.S.
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