Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney says team doctor molested her

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Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney came forward as a victim of a convicted sex offender — the former USA Gymnastics doctor accused of molesting dozens of athletes.

Maroney on Wednesday named Dr. Larry Nassar as her repeat abuser in a statement spawned by the “Me too” movement, which encouraged women to identify themselves as victims of harassment and sexual assault.

The molestations began at a Texas training camp when she was just 13-years-old, the gymnast said.

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“I seemed whenever and wherever this man could find the chance, I was ‘treated,’” Maroney wrote. “It happened in London befor emy team and I won the gold medal, and it happened before I won my Silver.”

The worst of the abuse took place during the 2011 world gymnastics championships in Tokyo.

She said Nassar gave her a sleeping pill on a flight to Tokyo and she woke up in his hotel room, once again “getting a ‘treatment.’”

“I thought I was going to die that night,” she wrote.

Maroney, now 21, said her Olympic victories were marred by his abuse.

Nassar pleaded guilty to child porn possession in July and is awaiting trial in three cases alleging that he sexually molested nine girls, including nine gymnasts seeking treatment for injuries.

He has pleaded not guilty to those accusations, and his attorney said Nassar intends to proceed to trial in December.

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