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Report: U.S. Olympic Committee Ignored Warnings Of Larry Nassar's Abuse For Over A Year
The United States Olympic Committee has been cagey about when exactly their officials first heard that Larry Nassar had been sexual abusing gymnasts. After initially claiming that they first learned that Nassar was the doctor accused of abuse when the Indianapolis Star first broke the story in Sept....
Sergeant In Charge Of 2004 Larry Nassar Investigation Says "I Don't Have Any Memory Of It"<em></em>
The first time Larry Nassar was reported to law enforcement—when Brianne Randall-Gay filed a complaint with the Meridian township police department in 2004—the case never made it to the prosecutor. In a newly released police report, it’s easy to see why. There was little police investigation beyond ...
Victims Continue To Call Out Larry Nassar's Enablers At Sentencing Hearing
One week after being sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison by Ingham County Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, Larry Nassar appeared in an Eaton County court room today for another sentencing hearing. Nassar pleaded guilty to three counts criminal sexual conduct in November, all of which took place between...
Cops Closed 2004 Case After Larry Nassar Said What He Did Was Medical Treatment
All Larry Nassar had to do to get investigators off his case in 2004 was say he was doing medical treatment, according to police documents released by Meridian Township police. The reports, released today, catalogue the steps police took when Brianne Randall (now Brianne Randall-Gay) came to them wi...
A List Of People Accused Of Enabling Larry Nassar
Former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison last week for 10 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Nassar was the only person sentenced, but dozens of other people have been accused of helping him perpetrate decades of child sexua...
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Male Gymnast Says He Was Abused By USAG Coach During Training [Updates]
Andrew Fuller, a gymnast who competes in trampoline and tumbling events, has accused former USA Gymnastics coach Dr. George Drew of drugging and abusing him while Fuller was training in Michigan....
Entire USA Gymnastics Board Will Resign<em></em>
A day after the U.S. Olympic Committee gave them an ultimatum to resign within six days or have the entire governing body decertified, the 16 remaining USA Gymnastics board members agreed to step down in the wake of the organization enabling Larry Nassar to sexually abuse dozens of girls and women w...
Report: U.S. Olympic Committee Orders USA Gymnastics Board To Resign Within Six Days Or The Federation Will Lose Certification
The United States Olympic Committee has requested that the entire USA Gymnastics board resign by next Wednesday, or the federation will lose its status as the governing body of the sport, according to a new report from USA Today....
Report: Michigan State Delayed Sending Nassar Files To Department Of Education, Tried To End Federal Oversight
Michigan State University, the employer of serial sexual abuser Larry Nassar for over two decades, did not notify federal officials of their investigation into Nassar in 2014, and has been slow in providing the federal government with documents related to Nassar despite being under Department of Edu...
Fox Sports Has Completely Ignored The Larry Nassar Sex Abuse Story
More than 150 women have come forward to say that former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar sexually abused them. The abuse spanned decades and happened under the eye of USA Gymnastics, Michigan State University, the U.S. Olympic Committee, parents, gymnastics coaches, counselors, and law enforcemen...
Gymnast Lindsey Lemke Says That Former Coach John Geddert Threatened Her After She Accused Him Of Abuse In Court
Former Michigan State gymnast Lindsey Lemke says that John Geddert—the former Olympic coach who worked closely with Larry Nassar and suddenly announced his retirement this week, after USA Gymnastics suspended him—threatened her after she spoke in court about the abuse she experienced at his gym....
Athletic Trainer Who Worked Alongside Larry Nassar For Years Is No Longer Working For USA Gymnastics
Yesterday, 2010 world championships silver medalist Mattie Larson read her victim impact statement at Larry Nassar’s sentencing. Larson related a litany of horrors from her time as a member of the national team—the coaching staff shunning her at the 2010 world championships after she made a mistake,...
It Began With Rachael Denhollander And It Ends With Her
This was always how it was meant to end. Rachael Denhollander, a lawyer and the mother of three, standing across from Larry Nassar, the man who has sexually abused hundreds of women and girls under the guise of medical treatment, delivering her victim impact statement a year and a half after she fir...
What Larry Nassar's Victims Wanted Us To Know
When a survivor of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse makes her impact statement to the court, she is first asked to state and spell her name for the record. And then Judge Rosemarie Aquilina asks her, “What would you like me to know?”...
U.S. Olympic Committee Calls On Entire USA Gymnastics Board To Resign
The U.S. Olympic Committee has been curiously quiet during sentencing of former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar. Right as Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison this afternoon for 10 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct—and after 156 women* gave statements ...
Judge Reads Batshit Victim-Blaming Letter From Larry Nassar, Where He Wrote "Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned"<em></em>
At the final day of Larry Nassar’s sentencing hearing today, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina read excerpts from a letter that Nassar wrote two months after agreeing to plea guilty to 10 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. In his letter, Nassar came off as defiant and wrote as if he was still so...
Larry Nassar Sentenced To 40 To 175 Years In Prison
Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison today by Judge Rosemarie Aquilina for 10 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The sentence came down following the seventh day of victim impact statements in the Ingham County, Mich., courtroom, after 156 women spoke in open court ab...
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NCAA Opens Investigation Of Michigan State Over Larry Nassar's Decades Of Sexual Abuse [Update]
The NCAA has formally opened an investigation of Michigan State due to the university’s failure to address repeated reports of sexual abuse by former employee Larry Nassar, who is already in prison for child pornography and is currently being sentenced after pleading guilty to several counts of crim...
Gymnastics Coach John Geddert, Accused Of Abusing Gymnasts, Suddenly Announces His Retirement
John Geddert—the owner of Twistars USA Gymnastics Club in Lansing, Mich., who has been called out numerous times during the Larry Nassar sentencing hearing for his own abusive behavior toward gymnasts—sent an email signed by him and his wife saying he was retiring, the Lansing State Journal reported...
Mattie Larson To Larry Nassar On Day Six Of Sentencing: "I Fucking Hate You"
Thirty-two more women spoke today in an Ingham County, Mich., court during the sixth day of Larry Nassar’s sentencing hearing, bringing the total number of victim-impact statements to 155 so far. The former Michigan State Athletic Department and U.S. Gymnastics doctor, who is already serving a 60-y...