Three former stars of the U.S. national women’s gymnastics team said Dr. Lawrence Nassar, the team physician now charged with child sex crimes, worked hard to win their trust – so they didn’t believe at first that his alleged abuse was wrong. “He was like my buddy,” Jamie Dantzscher – one of more than 60 women to come forward with abuse allegations against Nassar – told “60 Minutes” in an episode about the case.
Category: Olympic Gymnastics
Former gymnast Jeanette Antolin talks about alleged sexual abuse by U.S. team doctor
As one of America’s top gymnasts in the late 1990s, Jeanette Antolin said abuse was a daily occurrence for her. Don Peters, the 1984 U.S. Olympic team coach who trained her at the world renowned SCATS gymnastics academy in Huntington Beach, called her a “piece of ,” she said.