![]() ![]() Geddert did not respond to a request for comment at the time, and he and his attorney declined to comment for a CNN story last month investigating what gymnasts said was his emotional abuse. Raisman has previously spoken to CNN about that car ride from her perspective. And I was just going to go along with it.” “In my head, I was never going to speak about him again. “That was the moment that I shut it down,” Maroney said. But coach Geddert said nothing, Raisman said. Karolyi Ranch produced champions and a culture of fear, ex-gymnasts sayįellow gymnast Aly Raisman, who was also in the car, said she remembers hearing Maroney talk in graphic detail about what Nassar did to her. Gymnasts line up before Martha Karolyi, white jacket left, as they conclude their moring work session at Karolyi Ranch on Januin Huntsville, Texas. She knew they heard her because “people gasped,” Maroney added. And I even said out loud that last night, Larry was fingering me,” she said. “I was in the car driving back to the hotel. The next day, she spoke up to her fellow gymnasts and to coach John Geddert, she said. For years, she had believed Nassar when he said his “treatments” were a legitimate medical treatment, but this time she realized his actions were abuse. In 2011, when Maroney was 15, Nassar abused her in a hotel room in Tokyo before the world championships, she said. And when she finally got the nerve to speak up about it, she was met with silence, Maroney said. Maroney said she was sexually abused hundreds of times by Nassar. “They just wanna say, ‘Oh, we didn’t know.’ You – you knew what I ate, you controlled what I wore, you controlled what I said. In her first TV interview, McKayla Maroney questioned how the Karolyis could not know that was happening in their own facility. Maroney questions the Karolyis’ ignorance “Lifelong work, yes, and also, my health,” Bela Karolyi said. “Lifelong work, yes,” Martha Karolyi added. My – my facilities, my dreams, my – to be honest,” Bela Karolyi said. “This miserable man destroyed everything, whatever I – I was working for. The remarkable extent of his abuse has led to an array of lawsuits and investigations into how the institutions allowed the abuse to continue for so long.īela and Martha Karolyi denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of Nassar’s years of abuse at the Karolyi ranch under their supervision, and they positioned themselves as victims of his lies. He was sentenced to at least 40 years and is currently serving time in federal prison on child pornography charges. Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics team doctor and Michigan State University physician, admitted in criminal court to using his influence as a trusted medical doctor to sexually abuse young girls over two decades. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images for Hilton) Bob Levey/Getty ImagesĬNN exclusive: In depositions, Karolyis say they knew nothing of Nassar's abuse at their ranch HUNTSVILLE, TX - JANUARY 26: Martha & Bela Karolyi watch from the side as their facility Karolyi Ranch was named an official training site for USA Gymnastics on Januin Huntsville, Texas. The report also included the first TV interview with McKayla Maroney, the gold medal gymnast who said she was abused hundreds of times by Nassar. The comments on the “Dateline” report are the first public statements from the Karolyis on the Nassar scandal. “But if you couldn’t suspect anything – I heard during the testimonies that some of the parents were in the therapy room with their own child and Larry Nassar was performing this,” she said, “and the parent couldn’t see. ![]() She said she’s aware that people have questioned how the Karolyis, the most powerful figures in women’s gymnastics, didn’t know about Nassar. I don’t feel responsible, but I feel extremely hurt that this thing happened and it happened everywhere, but it happened here, also,” Martha Karolyi said in an interview with NBC’s “Dateline” that aired Sunday night. Legendary USA Gymnastics coaches Bela and Martha Karolyi said they did not know former team doctor Larry Nassar was abusing girls at their gymnastics facility and declined to take responsibility for his abuse.
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