Larry Nassar sexually abused young women for decades. He's finally being punished, decades too late.
From FOX News:
Larry Nassar, the disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting young female athletes, was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison.
“I just signed your death warrant,” Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said. It was the culmination of a remarkable seven-day hearing in which more than 150 of Nassar's victims gave impact statements detailing the abuse they endured at the hands of the former team doctor and Michigan State trainer.
Aquilina said Nassar's "decision to assault was precise, calculated, manipulative, devious, despicable."
She continued: "It is my honor and privilege to sentence you. You do not deserve to walk outside a prison ever again. You have done nothing to control those urges and anywhere you walk, destruction will occur to those most vulnerable."
Nassar pleaded guilty to assaulting seven people in the Lansing, Michigan, area between 1998 and 2015. He has already been sentenced to 60 years in prison for child pornography crimes and is scheduled to be sentenced next week on other assault convictions in Eaton County, Michigan.
...The 54-year-old was working at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians, when he sexually abused the athletes.
...Nassar's accusers, which included U.S. Olympic gymnasts Mckayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas and Simone Biles, said he would use his ungloved hands to touch them inappropriately while they were on a table seeking help for various injuries.
Nassar was allowed to continue to commit his crimes because those in positions of authority didn't stop him.
USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee didn't stop him.
Michigan State University didn't stop him.
They could have spared some victims the horror of abuse, but they didn't.
Their silence is mind-boggling to me.
How could they remain silent? How could they live with themselves, knowing what they knew?
It's like the scandal in the Catholic Church. Why did so many stay silent for so many years? People with knowledge of crimes being committed need to say something.
If I knew my child had been sexually abused by a team doctor like Nassar or a priest, I would contact authorities immediately. I would fight like hell for justice. I wouldn't be satisfied until the abuser was convicted and behind bars. No one could convince me to be silent.
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