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 nearly half of the 327 cases reviewed for the audit, the inspector general said there wasn’t evidence that FBI employees complied with the requirement to report allegations to local law enforcement. Only 17% were reported with all of the required documentation. At a September 2021 congressional hearing on the Nassar investigation, FBI Director Christopher Wray had vowed the bureau wouldn’t let the failures happen again. “Sorry for what you and your families have been through.
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