Sabrina Vega files lawsuit against Béla and Márta Károlyi
Former United States women's national gymnastics team gymnast Sabrina Vega became the latest gymnast to file a lawsuit pertaining to the Larry Nassar sexual assault scandal when she did so earlier this week.
Vega, 22, is suing Béla and Márta Károlyi, who owned the USA Gymnastics National Team Training Center at Károlyi Ranch in Huntsville, Texas, which served as the training center for the United States women's national gymnastics team, for failing to protect her from Nassar's sexual assault.
Vega also alleges in her lawsuit that USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic Committee failed to protect her from the sexual assault that she was forced to endure at the hands of Nassar and that they, along with Béla and Márta Károlyi, ignored several warning signs of what Nassar was truly up to. Nassar is also named in the lawsuit.
There have been several lawsuits filed by Nassar's victims against USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic Committee, but this is only the third one that has been filed against Béla and Márta Károlyi.
Here is what the lawsuit alleges, according to NBC News.
"The Karolyi Defendants did nothing to protect gymnasts, including Vega, who were training at their site for weeks at a time."
Vega claims that Nassar sexually assaulted her hundreds of times from 2008 to 2012. She alleges that he sexually assaulted her during competitions and while she trained at the Károlyi Ranch.
Nassar, 54, is the disgraced former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University physician who has now been accused of sexually assaulting at least 265 people, of whom an overwhelming majority are female gymnasts.
Nassar got away with his predatory behavior for roughly two decades, as he performed these predatory actions under the guise of medical treatment. He was able to fool his patients, and in many cases their parents, of what he was really doing.
The earliest known incident during which he sexually assaulted someone was back in 1997, and he was not arrested until December of 2016 after an article was published in The Indianapolis Star in September of 2016 in which Rachael Denhollander became the first person to publicly accuse Nassar of sexual assault.
The 54-year-old disgraced former doctor is currently serving a 60-year federal prison sentence that he was given on three child pornography charges this past December, and he is doing so at United States Penitentiary, Tucson in Tucson, Arizona, a maximum-security prison that offers a sex offender program.
Nassar was also sentenced to between 40 and 175 years in state prison on seven sexual assault charges in January and between an additional 40 and 125 years in state prison on three more sexual assault charges in February.