WASHINGTON —The FBI has continued to mishandle allegations of child sexual abuse in the years after the bureau’s notorious bungling of the investigation into disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, according to an audit by the Justice Department’s inspector general released Thursday.
Because of those failures, allegations of sexual abuse against children were left unaddressed for months while minors continued to be victimized, the audit found.
The audit followed up on issues that the department’s top watchdog identified as part of its scathing investigation into how the FBI investigated allegations against Nassar.
In the Nassar investigation, which was opened in 2018 and resulted in a final report in 2021, the inspector general found that senior officials in the FBI Indianapolis Field Office failed to respond to the Nassar allegations “with the utmost seriousness and urgency that they deserved and required.”
How could things be getting so much worse when the registry works so well being a deterrent before and after? ……
Hope they don’t think further scapegoating and ramping up increased hyper-vigilance against people forced to register is gonna be the solution.
It ain’t.