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'The worst human being': John Geddert accuser Sarah Klein says she doesn't feel closure - NBC News

'The worst human being': John Geddert accuser Sarah Klein says she doesn't feel closure - NBC News

Feb 26, 2021 1 min, 32 secs

When former gymnast Sarah Klein first learned that the former Olympics coach John Geddert had been charged with human trafficking and sexual assault, she felt relieved.

But a short time later, when Geddert killed himself, Klein felt gutted.

Klein, 41, who says she was sexually assaulted by Nassar, said she had been waiting for Geddert to face justice “for a long time.” She said she believes Nassar and Geddert enabled each other for many years.

“There would not be a Larry Nassar without John Geddert, and there would not have been a John Geddert without Larry Nassar,” said Klein, a Philadelphia-based attorney who represents survivors of sexual abuse.

In the absence of a criminal trial for Geddert, Klein said she hopes that USA Gymnastics, the national governing body of gymnastics, and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), are both “held to account.”.

In a statement after Geddert’s death, USA Gymnastics said: “We had hoped that news of the criminal charges being brought against John Geddert would lead to justice through the legal process.

Geddert’s suicide also robbed investigators of a potential source of information into Nasser’s other enablers, said Dmitriy Shakhnevich, a New York City-based lawyer and professor of Constitutional law at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Shakhnevich said that the gymnasts' laser-like focus on becoming the best is what made them “perfect victims for the folks who are in power in that world.”

“If I had a choice, I would choose the 17 years of almost daily sexual abuse at the hands of Larry Nassar than spending one more day with John Geddert

“In my view, and I believe in the view of many of Geddert’s gymnasts, what he did to us was far worse and far more traumatizing than having a grown man digitally penetrate you almost daily,” Klein said

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