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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....
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Michigan State President Lou Anna Simon Will Step Down [Update]
Michigan State President Lou Anna Simon will finally resign tomorrow, less than a week after MSU’s board of trustees voted to stand behind her. Trustees attempted to downplay Simon’s role in the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal and vouched for her fundraising chops, but the State News and Detroit F...
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...
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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...
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...
Michigan State Trustee: Our President Is A Great Fundraiser, So We're Not Going To Fire Her<em></em>
In an interview on local radio show Staudt on Sports, Michigan State board of trustees member Joel Ferguson reinforced the university board’s stance that the majority of board members still support university president Lou Anna Simon, saying, “there’s so many more things going on at the university t...
Mark Emmert Had Nothing To Say About Michigan State's Role In The Larry Nassar Case
While speaking with reporters at an NCAA conference in Indianapolis last Thursday, NCAA president Mark Emmert was asked to comment on Michigan State’s role in abetting Larry Nassar’s years of sexual abuse while he worked as a team doctor for the university’s women’s gymnastics and rowing teams. His ...
Larry Nassar Judge To Survivors: "The Military Has Not Come Up With Fiber As Strong As You"<em></em>
A steady procession of girls, women, and mothers stood to face Larry Nassar today for the fifth day of his extensive sentencing hearing in Ingham County Circuit Court in Lansing, Michigan. When the hearing began, 88 people were scheduled to give statements on Nassar’s serial sexual abuse, but now 14...
Tom Izzo Apologizes For Saying Stupid Things About Larry Nassar Case
After defeating the Indiana Hoosiers last Friday, Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo was asked about the Larry Nassar case and the leadership of MSU president Lou Anna Simon. MSU has come under fire after its board of trustees voted in support of Simon on Friday, even though it was recently re...
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Larry Nassar Victim Says MSU Is Billing Her For Her Sexual Assault [Update]
Today is Day 5 of Larry Nassar’s sentencing in a Michigan courtroom. Last week, more than 80 women spoke about how Nassar sexually abused them under the guise of medical treatment. Today, the 95th survivor in these proceedings gave a doozy a statement in Judge Rosmarie Aquilina’s court....
MSU's Response To Being "Perceived As Tone-Deaf" About Nassar Sex Abuse: Giving Vote Of Support To <em></em>School President Who Knew About It
The Michigan State board of trustees gave Lou Anna Simon a vote of support Friday despite an overwhelming number of calls for the university president to resign or be fired amidst the dozens of victims testifying against Larry Nassar at the ongoing sentencing phase of his prosecution....
Even More Women Come Forward To Address Larry Nassar's Sexual Abuse At Fourth Day Of Sentencing
The fourth day of Larry Nassar’s sentencing hearing wrapped up today, as more than 20 women gave statements in court, addressing Nassar directly and recounting harrowing tales of sexual abuse by the former U.S.A Gymnastics and Michigan State doctor. Nassar is currently serving a prison sentence for...
Women Continue To Address Decades Of Sexual Abuse By Larry Nassar On Third Day Of Sentencing
More than a dozen women gave statements in court today about the sexual abuse that they endured at the hands of former U.S.A. gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar. Currently in jail on child pornography charges, Nassar has pled guilty and is now awaiting sentencing on 10 coun...
Larry Nassar In Letter To Judge: Listening To Victims' Statements In Court Is Too Mentally Taxing
Larry Nassar, who admitted to decades of sexual abuse of girls and young women, often under the guise of medical treatment, wrote a letter to the judge in charge of his sentencing hearing in which he accused her of using the hearing to get media attention for herself and expressed concern about his...
Report: More Than A Dozen Michigan State Staffers Were Told Of Larry Nassar's Sexual Abuse And Nothing Happened
During the first day of sentencing this week of Larry Nassar, the former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics doctor who will spend the rest of his life in prison and is accused of sexually abusing more than 150 women and girls, no MSU officials were in the courtroom. A school spokesperson said they di...
More Women Address Larry Nassar's Sexual Abuse At Day Two Of His Sentencing
Twenty-one more women spoke on Wednesday at day two of Larry Nassar’s sentencing hearing. The former U.S.A. gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor has pled guilty to decades of sexual abuse on women and young girls in his care, and the court has now heard 50 total victim-impact statements o...
Women Describe Larry Nassar's Decades Of Sexual Abuse At First Day Of His Sentencing
More than two dozen women who said they were sexually abused by Larry Nassar, dating back to the early 1990s, gave victim-impact statements today in a Ingham County, Mich., courtroom. The statements were read ahead of Nassar’s sentence on 10 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Together, ...
Ohio State Takes Down Number-One Michigan State
Keita Bates-Diop had a national coming out party and Ohio State basketball got its biggest win in years as the Buckeyes absolutely trashed number-one Michigan State in Columbus this afternoon, 80-64. With this loss, the Spartans become yet another powerhouse team to lose to an unheralded opponent ea...