How did U.S.A. Gymnastics treat the athletes who said they had been abused? It pressured them to be silent. We now know that the president at the time, Steve Penny, called the mother of Maggie Nichols the day after her coach overheard her discussing Dr. Nassar’s treatment and raised the alarm — to dissuade them from reporting the doctor directly to law enforcement. The confidential $1.25 million settlement the organization struck with McKayla Maroney required her to remain silent. It wasn’t until the model Chrissy Teigen offered to pay the $100,000 fine Ms. Maroney could be subject to for violating a nondisclosure agreement that U.S.A. Gymnastics said it would not seek money from her if she chose to give a victim impact statement.

In the meantime, all efforts were made to look out for Steve Penny. In March, half a year after the revelations about Dr. Nassar became public, Mr. Penny was allowed to resign with a $1 million severance package, according to The Wall Street Journal, about two years of his base salary.

And the U.S.A. Gymnastics board that allowed this to happen? On Monday, after a week of press attention highlighting the horrific abuse by Dr. Nassar, the chairman, vice chairman and treasurer announced they were resigning. But 18 members remain.

The young women who have given heartbreaking accounts of the sexual abuse they endured have done their part, and the media is finally giving the story — perhaps the biggest sex abuse case in sports history — the attention it deserves. But U.S.A. Gymnastics remains stuck in survival mode (as does Michigan State University, where Dr. Nassar was on the faculty and which also showed similarly egregious lapses in judgment).

During her statement last week, Ms. Raisman noted that neither U.S.A. Gymnastics nor the United States Olympic Committee had “reached out to express sympathy or even offer support — not even to ask, ‘How did this happen? What do you think we can do to help?’”

Here’s where they can start:

First: U.S.A. Gymnastics has yet to admit that its response was inadequate or hold those who were negligent accountable. Until it does, the system that allowed Dr. Nassar and others to abuse without consequence will remain. “I think U.S.A. Gymnastics for a very, very long time has focused on nothing but winning gold medals,” Shawn Johnson, a 2008 Olympic gold medalist, said in a YouTube video on Monday. “As it pertains to U.S.A. Gymnastics, every single procedure, rule, guideline, rule book you’ve ever made needs to be thrown out the window and redone.” Exactly.

Second: The board members who allowed Mr. Penny to have a cushy $1 million severance should resign. (Mr. Penny could also do the right thing and put the money toward a fund for therapy.) Former Olympians Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman and Jamie Dantzscher could be among those filling the new seats.