Oliver Brown: Lessons still not learned as USA Gymnastics abuse scandal leaves a trail of victims

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Oliver Brown
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In the annals of searing courtroom drama, one young woman's televised excoriation this week of Larry Nassar, the disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor who has pleaded guilty to 10 counts of criminal sexual conduct with minors, deserves saving for posterity.

Until now, she had been known only as 'Victim Z.A', portrayed with long hair and teenage braces in faded family photographs. But this time, shredding the veil of anonymity, she stepped forward as Kyle Stephens, reading a statement that in its unsparing detail tore through not just Nassar but the system that shielded him for the best part of 20 years.