The victims of former American Gymnastics team doctor

Larry Nassar

reached an agreement with USA Gymnastics (the federation), the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and their insurers to receive a compensation of 380 million after a legal battle of more than three years.

The content of the pact was known in a session in the Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of the state of Indiana.

The amount is one of the largest ever reached in an agreement of this type to compensate victims of sexual abuse and with it will compensate hundreds of gymnasts, including sports stars such as

Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman

.

As part of the USA Gymnastics agreement and the Olympic Committee also agreed to appoint some of their seats on the board for some victims and implement other new policies to protect athletes from future abuse.

"Reconstruction"

One of the victims of the abuse,

Rachael Denhollander

, stated on her Twitter account that with this agreement this "chapter" is finally closed. "Now the hard work of reform and reconstruction can begin. Whether or not there is justice and a change is made depends on what happens next," he tweeted. Denhollander expressed "pride" in the commitments made beyond the financial aspect of this agreement.

Under the arrangement, USA Gymnastics and the Olympic and Paralympic Committee insurers will pay most of the $ 380 million, although the second organization has agreed to pay $ 34 million out of pocket and will make a $ 6 million loan to the federation. This marks a notable change in the attitude of the

committee, which had argued in the past that it was not responsible for Nassar's crimes

and that it should not be included in lawsuits related to him because the doctor was not employed by the Olympic Committee.

USA Gymnastics filed for bankruptcy in 2018, the same year that Nassar was sentenced to prison on a de facto life sentence.

The newspaper

The New York Times

said the deal will

help the federation to emerge from bankruptcy with its new leaders, as

well as to end the spate of lawsuits that faces and stop the process initiated by the Olympic Committee to withdraw the certification as an Olympic organization.

Life imprisonment

Nassar, who

molested more than 330 young people serving a sentence of between 40 and 175 years added to another 60 years for child pornography

, de facto life imprisonment.

The doctor received his convictions between December 2017 and February 2018, in a trial that coincided with the outbreak of the #MeToo movement.

It has taken more than three years to reach the agreement announced this Monday;

a period of time in which some of the best-known gymnasts have openly criticized USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee in interviews, social media and even in a session before the country's Senate.

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