Mihail Pautovmedic, IC Fundeni · Doctor Mihail - Medic specialist în chirurgie generală, Educator de sănătate

Rușinea, teama de judecată le împiedică pe multe persoane să vorbească, după ce au suferit un abuz.

8 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Spoken monologue (YouTube) reflecting on systemic sexual abuse by a U.S. gymnastics team doctor. The speaker recounts that the doctor began abusing very young gymnasts (around 12–14), victims reported to parents, doctors, institutions and police over roughly 20 years without adequate response, and argues that shame and fear of judgment silenced survivors until many (160) finally came forward.

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Larry Vassar, he was the doctor for the United States Gymnastics Olympic team. He started sexually abusing 12, 13, 14 year old girls under the idea, guys, that this was medical treatment. Some of those girls go and tell other people. They tell the parent, no, he's a doctor. I don't believe you. Something's wrong with you, right? I don't know why you're having these weird feelings. You're making up stuff about maybe you got some sexual problems. That's why you're making stuff up. So you tell parents. Then some of the people are telling other doctors. Then some of the people are telling higher ups in the Olympic institution. Then people are telling police, then people are telling district attorneys. 20 years, this goes on. 20 years. And then 160 women came forward. Why does it take 20 years and 160 women to report somebody before they say maybe there's something going on? Because the whole culture has perhaps this whole problem in shame. What's wrong with you? He would never do that. You just got a problem. And those parents who then realized what was happening, think of the pain that they're in. Oh my gosh, I let this happen to my daughter. They were telling the truth. But the shame. The shame is the bigger problem because it makes a silence about everything.