“It was a culture of fear”.
These are some of the words uttered by our own Madison Kocian as she was interviewed recently on CBS This Morning alongside teammate Kyla Ross and head coach Valerie Kondos Field. The subject was the sexual abuse crimes committed by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, in which hundreds of current and former gymnasts had been abused while receiving supposed medical treatments where, in most cases, parents were not allowed to be present.
The culture of fear that Kocian speaks of was at the Karolyi Ranch, 40 acres of the Sam Houston National Forest in Texas that was purchased by the famed gymnastics coach Bela Károlyi and his wife Marta in 1983.