On Wednesday, former gymnasts for Team USA testified before Congress, giving harrowing accounts of the abuse they suffered at the hands of Larry Nassar and the yearslong failures of the FBI and other institutions to act on their reports. With broken voices, some tears and clear exhaustion, Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols showed more bravery in those few hours than any of the adults whose job it was to protect them when they were children.These hearings hinged on a scathing report by the Office of the Inspector General on the complete breakdown of the investigative process by the FBI. According to the report, the bureau conducted interviews with victims in 2015 but failed to file a formal report based on those interviews for nearly 18 months. In those months, the report found that 70 more girls and women were abused by Nassar. The victims’ attorneys say that number is closer to 120, including a victim as young as 8.Other findings in the report point to the misrepresentation or even direct omission of some of the victims’ statements. It also stated that FBI officials failed to report their investigation to state and local authorities. It was a September 2016 report by the Indianapolis Star detailing Nassar’s abuse that finally forced officials to take the accusations seriously.What we’ve seen in the preceding years hasn’t just been a gross failure on the part of the FBI. It’s a complete breakdown of every level of institution that is supposed to be in place to protect these young athletes, from Michigan State to USA Gymnastics to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to the Center for Safe Sport to the FBI.