Warning, the following article contains graphic discussions of sexual assault.
The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday it will not bring federal criminal charges against the two former FBI agents who disregarded a group of gymnasts' accusations against Larry Nassar in 2015.
Special agents Jay Abbott and Michael Langeman were heavily criticized in a DOJ report following an investigation into the FBI's mishandling of the Nassar allegations. Abbott has since retired, while Langeman was fired last year.
Abbott and Langeman were found to have spoken with only one gymnast, McKayla Maroney, while failing to properly document the interview until 2017, failing to transfer the case to the Lansing office where Nassar was based and failing to inform any state or local authorities of the claims against Nassar, who has since been convicted and hit with an effective life sentence.
A group of 13 women who were sexually assaulted by Nassar after he was reported to the FBI have since sued the agency.
The agents were also found to have made false claims in multiple statements to federal investigators to hide their mistakes.
Testifying before Congress, Maroney described how the agents handled her phone interview while calling for them to be held responsible, via ABC News:
I told the FBI about Tokyo, the day he gave me a sleeping pill for the plane ride to then work on me later that night. That evening, I was naked, completely alone, with him on top of me molesting me for hours. I told...
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