Last Updated on September 20, 2022
A 25-year veteran agent at the FBI told Rolling Stone the bureau does not care about investigating child sex abuse cases as much as it should.
In 2003, Jane Turner first came into the news cycle by going to news outlets with information about the FBI mishandling child sex abuse crimes against children who lived on American Indian reservations in North Dakota.
Turner alleged the FBI refused to interview victims of abuse. “The bureau did not do its job. Child abuse is a significant problem on Indian reservations and we need to do better,” Turner explained.
After the Department of Justice’s Inspector’s General issued a report in July 2021 explaining how the FBI failed to properly investigate Larry Nassar, the former doctor for the United States’ Gymnastics team and Michigan State University’s team, Turner spoke out once again.
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Nassar was accused of abusing dozens of young children in multiple states. The Inspector General’s report claims the FBI failed to respond to the allegations against Nassar “with the utmost seriousness and urgency that the allegations deserved and required, made numerous and fundamental errors when they did respond to them, and failed to notify state or local authorities of the allegations or take other steps to mitigate the ongoing threat posed by Nassar.”
Meetings with USA gymnastics victims were not documented by the bureau, local law enforcement was not kept informed of the investigation, and much more scandal is laid out in the Inspector General’s report.
Turner told Rolling Stone that the FBI “don’t give a shit about kids or young people.”
“They’re just not that proficient in sex abuse. They can do the pornography, that kind of thing, but for really getting into it….It’s not high on their list of give-a-shits,” Turner added.
In the wake of the inspector general’s report about the FBI’s failures, the bureau issued a statement, seemingly to apologize for its inaction.
“This should not have happened. We will take all necessary steps to ensure that the failures of the employees outlined in the report do not happen again,” the statement reads.
Criticizing the statement, Turner said, “Nassar is a blip for them. It’s a little pebble thrown in the ocean; it’s not going to make any waves. They said, ‘Hey, gee. We missed that one, sorry,’ and they’ll move on.”
Stay tuned to National File for any updates.
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