A former youth gymnastics coach who secretly recorded his young female charges undressing and using the bathroom at a Mississippi gym was sentenced to 90 years in prison Wednesday in a case that reaches to the very pinnacle of the sport.
\n\nAP reports U.S. District Judge Kristi Johnson gave the maximum sentence possible to offender Sean Gardner, ordering the miscreant serve 30 years in prison for each of the three federal child pornography production charges to which he pleaded guilty.
\n\nThe sentence likely amounts to life in prison for Gardner, 39. The outlet further recorded the guilty party was arrested last summer and his conviction renews questions about whether U.S. gymnastics authorities had done enough to protect athletes from sexual abuse at the hands of an influential coach.:
\n\nGardner pleaded guilty to placing a hidden camera in a bathroom at a gymnastics studio in Purvis, Mississippi, between December 2017 and April 2018 to record his students.
\n\nInvestigators say he created videos showing close-up images of at least 10 minors naked or undressing, which they recovered from his computers years later while investigating claims that he sexually abused gymnasts in Iowa.
\n\nFurther investigations remain pending related to claims made by several…
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