(NewsNation) — Amanda Le, a former competitive swimmer, is suing USA Swimming.

She says her Hall of Fame coach Joseph Bernal sexually abused her 15 years ago when she was a minor and alleges USA Swimming and other organizations knew of the abuse but did nothing to intervene.

“It started when I was 15,” Le exclusively told NewsNation’s “Banfield” on Monday. “He kissed me after practice, and it kept going from there. I felt brainwashed by him, and I just wanted to do whatever he said because I wanted to be a good swimmer, go to college, get a scholarship.”

Le wants accountability.

“It’s not just me. They’ve made millions of dollars on our silence. They’ve never fully taken accountability for enabling this culture,” Le said.

Bernal died in October 2022 and never faced any criminal charges. Jon Little, Le’s attorney, said Bernal’s activity is “normalized and tolerated, especially for coaches that produce medals and money.”

“Joseph Bernal is not the only child molester coach that has escaped justice,” Little said on “Banfield.” “There’s a lot of these guys that are still out there because they win.”

The 33-page lawsuit alleges sexual abuse on the part of Bernal, the former Fordham and Harvard swim coach who served on the U.S. coaching staff at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics.

Bernal was also named in an August 2021 lawsuit in which Kimberly Stines accused him of emotional and sexual abuse beginning in 1976. USA Swimming is not a defendant in the 2021 lawsuit. Stines also joined “Banfield” to share her “eerily similar” story.

“He would keep me after practice. Started kissing me, just went on for a couple of years. I was very confused. He was the first boy that ever kissed me. I didn’t know what to make of it. I think at some point in the journey, I questioned if this was love,” Stines said.