Sweet pickle how many feds are on this board lmao. FBI being sued for a sex crimes and little upvotes.
We can only pray that these corrupt people hiding behind our once respected institutions are brought out in court. Pray.
Thirteen victims of infamous Team USA physician Larry Nassar are suing the Federal Bureau of Investigation for $10 million a piece for allegedly looking the other way while the fiend was abusing his power to victimize children.
Attorney Jamie White, who is representing the victims, called the FBI’s mismanagement of the Nassar probe “a law enforcement failure of historic proportions.” FBI agents are accused of looking the other way for years as victims came forth about Nassar’s abuse, allowing the monster to prey upon more children.
“We spend so much energy and resources encouraging children to come forward when they have been abused, so the fact that people came forward to the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world and were rebuffed – it’s a slap in the face,” White said.
“This is the largest failure on the part of law enforcement in the history of the world as it pertains to the protection of children, and there must be institutional accountability to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” he added.
Nassar was eventually convicted of sexually abusing hundreds of female athletes and sentenced to between 40 and 125 years in prison. The FBI was allegedly made aware of the abuses in 2015 and looked the other way. The victims themselves have spoken out against FBI corruption in how they handled the case.
“No one should have been assaulted after the summer of 2015, because the FBI should have done its job,” said Grace French, a Nassar victim who serves as president of the victims’ rights organization, The Army of Survivors. “To know that the FBI could have helped to avoid this trauma disgusts me. It hurts me.”
“This incredible systemic breakdown shows that there is needed change in the way that the FBI responds to cases of abuse. This is about showing those institutions who continue to harbor, enable, and protect predators that there are consequences for turning a blind eye to abuse through inaction,” she added.
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