Sean Gardner, a former gymnastics coach at Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, Iowa, has been arrested on child pornography charges.

The US gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions.

Sean Gardner, 38, was busted by the FBI for producing child pornography materials after authorities raided his home, finding hundreds of images of children, following an investigation into