Speaking during a 2018 sentencing hearing for former U.S. Olympic and national team physician Larry Nassar, Rachael Denhollander, a former gymnast and Nassar survivor, asked “How much is a little girl worth?”

According to a USA Gymnastics bankruptcy filing Friday night, it’s as little as $82,000.

In a disclosure statement filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana, USA Gymnastics said it is asking Nassar survivors to accept a settlement agreement that would pay $1.25 million to former Olympic and World Championships team members who were abused by Nassar but $82,550 to others.

The settlement agreement releases the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, former USA Gymnastics CEO Steve Penny and former national team directors Bela and Martha Karolyi from all claims but does not address the extent USA Gymnastics officials were aware of the predatory behavior of Nassar and others and to what steps, if any, they took to conceal that sexual abuse from unknowing potential victims.

The proposed $217-million settlement is part of a reorganization plan USA Gymnastics filed with the court earlier this year. USA Gymnastics filed for Chapter 11 protection in December 2018.

The 77-page filing obtained by the Orange County Register states that if they approve the settlement agreement, the 517 Nassar survivors would agree to release “any and all claims arising from or related to Abuse Claims or Future Claims.”

In addition to the USOPC, Penny, the Karolyis and five Karolyi-related businesses, the settlement proposal also calls for the release of former U.S. Olympic team and SCATS coach Don Peters, 2012 Olympic coach John Geddert, former USA Gymnastics senior vice president Rhonda Faehn, former USA Gymnastics board chairman Paul Parilla, former USA Gymnastics president Bob Colarossi, former USA Gymnastics national teams manager Amy White, former USA Gymnastics sports medicine official Debra Van Horn and the All Olympia Gymnastics Center in Southern California.

“USOPC is a beneficiary of the Settlement Election’s release and its injunctions,” according to the filing.

“The only way the USOPC will agree to” the settlement “is if it is protected by the release and injunctions described” in the agreement.

The proposed settlement, an attorney for USA Gymnastics wrote in the filing, “is in the best interests of, and provides the highest and most expeditious recovery to, all parties who hold claims” against the organization.

The disclose statement outlines how the survivors would be broken up into four groups. Women who were sexually abused by Nassar at the Olympics, Worlds, national team training camps or other national team events would receive $1,250,757 each. Simone Biles, the four-time Olympic and 19-time World champion, and all five members of the record setting 2012 Olympic gold medal-winning team said they were abused by Nassar while they represented the U.S. at the Olympic Games, World Championships and other major international competitions as well as national team training camps at the Karolyi Ranch in Central Texas.

Non-elite gymnasts sexually abused at USA Gymnastics-sanctioned events would receive $508,670 each. Individuals abused at non-USA Gymnastics locations would receive $174,401 each and individuals with “derivative claims” $82,550 each.

“Let’s be clear for parents considering putting your child in a gym sanctioned by USA Gymnastics what USA Gymnastics is saying if we place a known pedophile in that gym and that individual rapes your child then your child is worth $82,000,” said John Manly, an attorney for dozens of Nassar survivors. “My client Rachael Denhollander asked what is a little girl worth. Apparently if you’re raped by the national team doctor you’re worth $82,000 to USA Gymnastics.

“This is the most disgusting, reprehensible, vile view of children I can imagine. And for (USA Gymnastics) to put this out there and act like it is a constructive step shows how out of touch they are. Steve Penny was so bad USA Gymnastics banned him for life, the Karolyis, every one of them, and they pay nothing. They have no consequences. What message does that send to the next Steve Penny? The message is you get off scot free. You’re better off putting your kids in roller derby.”

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Court rejects Terin Humphrey bid to join Nassar case, citing missed filing deadline Under the heading “non-monetary commitments and reforms” USA Gymnastics states in the filing that “in addition to compensating survivors…USAG is committed to taking concrete action to address concerns that survivors and others have raised about the organization and its culture.” But neither the disclosure statement or a reorganization plan filed with the bankruptcy court last month make any mention of USA Gymnastics disclosing documents or information that would reveal the organization’s role and that of others in creating the culture of abuse within the sport that enabled Nassar’s abuse.

USA Gymnastics in the disclosure statement does assert that the organization has made “significant progress” in taking steps to prevent future abuse. The filing states that “one of the most significant changes USAG made during the case was its decision to hire Li Li Leung” as the organization’s CEO last year.

Leung receives $450,000 in annual compensation and as much as $90,000 annual in bonuses, according to financial records and court filings.

USA Gymnastics is facing hundreds of lawsuits across the country that allege the organization and its top officials and coaches fostered a culture of abuse that enabled the predatory behavior of Nassar and other coaches and officials, and then, in consultation with U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and FBI officials, attempted to conceal that sexual abuse from the public.

USA Gymnastics filed for protection under Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy for the Southern District of Indiana in December 2018.

That Chapter 11 filing prompted an automatic stay on all legal proceedings and litigation, including discovery, against USA Gymnastics, and the USOPC’s efforts to strip the organization of its national governing body status.

The USOPC has not said if it proceed with the decertification process, should a settlement be reached.

The proposal comes after months of talks between attorneys for USA Gymnastics and the hundreds of Nassar survivors have stalled with the two sides still hundreds of millions of dollars apart. It also follows a motion filed by attorneys for the survivors in January asking the bankruptcy court to dismiss USA Gymnastics’ bid for Chapter 11 protection.

“USAG/USOC, and its revolving door of executives since, have done everything in their collective power to conceal the truth from Nassar’s hundreds of survivors, the more than 100 survivors of abuse suffered at the hands of coaches over the past several decades, law enforcement authorities, and the American public,” James I. Stang, an attorney for a committee representing survivor wrote in the January filing. “The coordinated strategy of USAG and the USOC was, and remains to be, to delay, deflect and deny them and non-Nassar survivors justice for the horrible crimes committed upon them as children. Sadly, USAG and the USOC have used this bankruptcy proceeding as yet another tool to inflict pain upon these sexual abuse survivors – both Nassar and non-Nassar survivors – and to deny justice to these girls and women who competed for this institution and their country.”

Under the reorganization plan, USA Gymnastics proposes two options of for sexual abuse survivors: accept $215 million to settle all claims or continue to pursue judgments in civil suits from insurance policies available to the organization.

If the survivors vote to accept the settlement, the insurers for a Michigan gym owned by the family of former U.S. Olympic coach John Geddert would also contribute an additional $2.125 million to the settlement amount. Nassar routinely treated young athletes at the gym, Twistars, located near Lansing.

USA Gymnastics’ proposed settlement is less than half the $500 million settlement Michigan State reached with survivors of sexual abuse by Nassar, a former member of the Michigan State sports medicine staff.

Nassar is serving a 60-year federal prison sentence on child pornography charges. He was also sentenced in Ingham County, Michigan, last January to 40 to 175 years for child sexual assault and 40-125 years in Eaton County, Michigan, on similar charges in February.

Penny was first informed of Nassar’s sexual abuse of U.S. national team member Maggie Nichols in June 2015. In the following weeks Penny was also informed that Olympic champions Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney had also likely been sexually assaulted by Nassar. Yet Penny kept the abuse hidden from the public until September 2016, working with FBI agents in the bureau’s Indianapolis office, other USA Gymnastics officials and board members, as well as an attorney for the organization, according to documents obtained by the Register.

Nassar, according to court documents, sexually abused at least 40 young athletes between Penny’s first contact with the FBI agent in charge of the bureau’s Indianapolis office in July 2015 and September 2016, when Nassar’s abuse became public. The number of victims in that window could actually surpass 100, according to persons familiar with dozens of Nassar-related lawsuits.

Nassar was allowed to retire as U.S. national team coach in September 2015 without he or USA Gymnastics describing the reason behind his departure.

Penny was arrested in October 2018 after a Texas grand jury indicted him on felony evidence tampering charges. The indictment alleges Penny ordered the removal of documents from the Karolyi Ranch related to Nassar’s activities.

“The indictment further alleges that the removal of the documents was done for the purpose of impairing the ongoing investigation by destroying or hiding the documents,” according to the Walker County, Texas District Attorney’s office.

Penny was fired as USA Gymnastics CEO and president in March 2017 under pressure from the USOPC. He has denied any wrongdoing.

Faehn, then USA Gymnastics senior vice president for its women’s program, was informed of concerns about Nassar’s procedures on June 17, 2015 by Sarah Jantzi, Maggie Nichols’ club coach. Jantzi told Faehn that Nichols described “three uncomfortable encounters of therapy with Nassar” including massaging her groin area “too close to the vagina.”

Faehn reported the call to Penny that day. It would be weeks, however, before Penny and other USA Gymnastics officials contacted the FBI about Nassar. Faehn was forced out at USA Gymnastics in May 2018.

“Unbelievably painful… total disregard for the athletes that were used, abused, and now swept to the side!” John Nichols, Maggie’s father, wrote on twitter Friday night after the Orange County Register first posted details from the disclosure statement.

White, the USA Gymnastics national teams manager, on Penny’s orders removed several boxes of medical records and other documents relevant to the Larry Nassar investigation from the Karolyi Ranch in November 2016, according to Faehn in a sworn deposition.

Faehn said in the deposition that White in March confided to her that Penny called her and told her to remove records from the Karolyi Ranch and transport them to USA Gymnastics headquarters in Indianapolis.

White told Faehn that after returning to the headquarters “she gave them to Steve Penny,” Faehn said referring to the medical records.

Peters, the coach of the groundbreaking 1984 U.S. Olympic women’s team, was banned for life by USA Gymnastics in 2011 following a Register investigation that reported he had sex with three teenage gymnasts.