Latest Larry Nassar Accuser Recalls Abuse As 13-Year-Old Gymnast

A former U.S. gymnastics team member from a Detroit suburb has accused disgraced former Michigan State University sports doctor Larry Nassar of sexually abusing her during treatments for injuries, including one instance as a 13-year-old when he asked if he could videotape sessions. Kamerin Moore, now 21, made the allegations in an emotional 7-minute video posted on YouTube.

Nassar has been publicly accused of sexual abuse by three former elite U.S. gymnasts, including 2000 Olympian Jamie Dantzcher; Jessica Howard, the U.S. national champion in rhythmic gymnastics from 1999-2001; and Jeanette Antolin, who competed with the U.S. national team from 1995-2000. The former Team USA physician is jailed on multiple counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct filed in Michigan, faces federal child pornography and obstruction of justice charges, has been sued by at least 100 people in civil court, and is the subject of complaints by at least 100 others. Nassar, though his attorney, has denied wrongdoing.

In her video, Moore said she was treated by Nassar an average of two or three times a month from the time she was 11 until she was 18 as a member of the Twistars USA Gymnastics Club, which referred some of its athletes to Nassar for care. As a young adolescent, she injured her hamstring. As part of the treatment, she said on the video, Nassar would rub the back of her thighs with one hand while massaging her genital area with the ungloved other hand, penetrating her genital area, “skin on skin.”

“I was about 13 when I had these treatments done, so I was extremely uncomfortable with this,” Moore said on the video. “I didn’t think something was wrong. I trusted him as a doctor. He was very well-respected. And as a little girl, I wasn’t ever questioning a well-respected doctor.”

Alone at his office at Michigan State, he asked if he could record the session for an educational video to train other doctors, Moore said. She refused adamantly, saying on the video that “it’s totally disgusting to ask a little girl to do that, especially when she is alone without her parent in the room.”

“He was asking, as a 40-year-old man or however old he was, to videotape himself touching a 13-year-old girl’s naked private parts,” Moore said. “If nothing else, if he was a well-respected doctor still and he was a good person and they hadn’t found thousands of images and videos of child pornography on his devices, this would still be wrong. I was underage, my mom had no idea this was happening. She didn’t know these procedures were invasive. She was absolutely appalled when I told her that and that he had asked to videotape himself doing this treatment on me.”

That was the last time Moore went to Nassar for treatment. She lied to her coaches and to everyone, saying that her back and hamstrings felt fine, and that she wasn’t in pain, she said. She knew other gymnasts who sought treatment from him, which helped settle in her mind what had happened wasn’t that bad. Then an explosive report last year by the Indianapolis Star over USA Gymnastics’ handling of sexual abuse allegations opened the floodgates and scores of women and girls who reported frighteningly similar encounters.

Previously Reported

• Former Olympic Gymnasts Name MSU Doctor in Sex Abuse Complaints
• MSU Fires Doctor Accused in Olympic Gymnast Sex Abuse Scandal
• Ex-MSU Doctor in Olympic Sexual Abuse Scandal Charged
• 13 Women, Girls to Sue MSU Over Doc’s Alleged Assaults
• Feds Arrest Ex-MSU Doc on Child Porn Charges
• More Sexual Assault Charges Against Former USA Gymnastics Doc

She never doubted their stories. “It hit me, yeah, that was wrong,” she said. “I never questioned whether they were false accusations.”

She doesn’t know if it would have been better for her as a 13-year-old to grasp the severity of the situation or if she’s better equipped as a 21-year-old to handle it. But she feels dirty, she said, as if she can’t shower enough.

“I want to go into the past, or just scream into the past and be like, ‘Something’s wrong. Please tell someone how you feel because something is so wrong.’ ”

You can watch her emotional video below.

Moore said on Twitter that she has received an “overwhelming” amount of support from people who have viewed her video. Many have said that by sharing it, she is giving voice to others who may not have found the courage to come forward.

As a freshman at the University of Nebraska in 2015, the West Bloomfield Township native competed with the women’s gymnastics team and was part of a historic vault lineup of gymnasts whose 49.75 team score broke a school record. At the UCLA quadrangular, she produced scores of 9.75 or higher on each of her floor routines, notching a career high of 9.875. She earned her career best of 9.85 on the bars as the Masters Classic, and in NCAA regional competition, she earned a score of 9.80.

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