The tears of Simon Byles and the “blame” of the athletes – “It was like serving innocent children to a pedophile”

Simon Bailes burst into tears Wednesday during a U.S. Senate meeting on sexual abuse at the hands of former U.S. Olympic gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, and blamed the FBI for the failure.

The 24-year-old top gymnast spoke about agents who failed to take action for more than a year after the abuse was reported, in order to face prosecution at the federal level. At the same time, he continued to exploit dozens of young victims.

“To be clear, I accuse Larry Nassar and I also blame an entire system that allowed this abuse,” he said. With her were also Nassar athletes and victims, McKeila Maroni, Maggie Nichols and Ali Reisman. They also testified before the Senate committee on the FBI investigation into Nassar’s sexual harassment case.

Reisman’s statement caused a stir when he accused the FBI of failing to properly investigate the initial allegations of sexual abuse against Nassar, leaving him free to abuse another 120 children.

“Nassar has found more than 100 new victims to abuse. “It was like serving innocent children to a pedophile on a plate,” Reisman said.

The four women testified that they made them feel for years that the abuse they had experienced “was not a big deal” when they reported it to FBI agents, who failed to investigate what they said and tried to cover up the fact that they did not act when case came to light.

This shocking failure allowed Nassar to continue the abuse. He abused a total of 120 victims in the 17 months between July 2015 – when the victims reported the abuse to the FBI – and December 2016 – when the pedophile was finally arrested on child pornography charges.

All four women testified that they knew of female athletes who were abused during this period when “the FBI did nothing.”