Beyond Larry Nassar: hundreds of athletes are fighting USA Gymnastics in court over abuse

Athletes say Nassar was just one abuser of many. A bankruptcy case could be their chance at restitution.

Shenea Booth says she was 15 years old when her gymnastics coach started abusing her.

She had moved in with the coach, David Reiakvam, then in his early 30s, to facilitate her training, she told Vox. But in 2001, she says, he began molesting her.

“David Reiakvam would molest me in the car while driving to and from gym practice,” Booth wrote in a recent legal complaint, “and would do so in the presence of his toddler son.”

“I was sexually abused by David Reiakvam on a minimum of 200 separate occasions,” she wrote. read more »

Catholic Diocese of Sacramento releases list of clergy credibly accused of sexual abuse

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento released the names of 46 priests and deacons who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse over the past seven decades.

The clergy named in the list have been credibly accused of sexually abusing 130 minors or young adults, aged 25 and under, the diocese said in a news release. The list is based on the personnel records of nearly 1,500 bishops, priests and deacons from 1950 to the present.

“This list is heartbreaking. It is a sickening and sobering account of the history of sex abuse by clergy in our diocese,” Bishop Jaime Soto said in a news release. “It is repulsive to see the evil acts that were perpetrated upon innocent children and young people entrusted to our care." read more »