An extensive investigation by ESPN and ABC News revealed the U.S. Center for SafeSport, which is tasked with rooting out and investigating sexual abuse and other misconduct within Olympic sports and at the amateur level, "is still struggling to gain the trust of the community it is designed to protect."
Dan Murphy and Pete Madden of ESPN interviewed athletes, attorneys and lawmakers and discovered concerns about a number of topics over the course of their 18-month investigation, including the organization's transparency, how independent it truly is from those it is investigating and how effective it has been from preventing alleged abusers from returning to their sports.