The sanctions are based on only the one complaint, even if there are other witnesses, so that's part of the problem. They then get a two-year suspension for having harmed a child in ways that could last for years and years. The coach gets two years, because they only looked at one complaint, even if there were five witnesses. That really should have been five complaints, and maybe they should have gotten 10 years.
Who's making the decision on how much sanctions time these people are getting?
I can tell you, I will be 52 years old in two days, and the harm I went through then...I thought I had recovered from it, because I was out of the sport, but when I got back in and involved in the sport and saw that it was systemic and that my daughter was now experiencing it.... I thought I could fix it for her, so I was in there, working at the club every day, trying to educate coaches. I did provincial seminars and all the things. I joined boards with Gymnastics Canada, and I still couldn't make change.
It was just better to pull all my family out.