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USOC Will Not Make Personnel Changes Until After Independent Investigation Into Their Handling Of Larry Nassar
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea—Hours before the opening ceremony, United States Olympic Committee board of directors chairman Larry Probst opened the organization’s first press conference of the Pyeongchang Olympics with an acknowledgement. “I want to address upfront what many of you came here rightly to...
Investigators Search Former Olympic Swimming Coach's Home Following Sexual Abuse Allegations
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is reporting that Homeland Security investigators searched the apartment of former Olympic swimming coach Sean Hutchison on Tuesday. Authorities were reportedly looking for evidence that the 46-year-old had taken nude photos of a swimmer he’s been accused of sexually a...
USA Gymnastics Creates Fund For Sexually Abused Gymnasts To Receive Counseling
USA Gymnastics announced today that it has established a fund for gymnasts who have been sexually abused within the sport, which will give financial support to victims who wish to receive counseling. According to USA Gymnastics, gymnasts and their families will be able to contact the fund confidenti...
Larry Nassar Sentenced To Additional 40 To 125 Years In Prison
Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 125 more years in prison today by Judge Janice Cunningham for three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Eaton County, Mich. The sentence was the final of three for Nassar, following a 60-year sentence on federal pornography charges handed down in Dec...
Report: Larry Nassar Molested At Least 40 Women After FBI Became Aware Of Abuse Allegations
The New York Times published a report this weekend that lays out a timeline of the FBI’s investigation into Larry Nassar, who has been sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for 10 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. According to the Times, Nassar was able to continue working and abusing...
Father Of Multiple Victims Tries To Attack Larry Nassar In Court
Randall Margraves, the father of three daughters who were all victims of disgraced former U.S. Gymnastics and Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse, attempted to attack Nassar in court Friday morning, during the second day of Nassar’s sentencing hearing in Eaton County. He was subdued an...
East Lansing Columnist: ESPN Is The Real Irresponsible Party In MSU's Sexual Assault Scandal
The Lansing State Journal, overall, has done a fantastic job covering the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal, as well as Michigan State’s basketball and football teams’ problems with reporting sexual assault and violence against women. Their editorial board was calling for MSU president Lou Anna Simo...
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...
Mark Dantonio And Tom Izzo Refuse To Accept Any Blame In MSU Sexual Assault Scandal
It’s been three days since an ESPN report painted a picture of Michigan State University as a school unable or unwilling to punish sexual abusers or rapists through any kind of accountable system, particularly when the accused were part of the football and men’s basketball teams. The looming publica...
Report: NCAA President Mark Emmert Was Personally Informed About 37 MSU Athlete Sex Assault Cases In 2010, Did Nothing
The Athletic’s Nicole Auerbach reports tonight that NCAA president Mark Emmert was personally told in 2010 of more than three dozen reports of sexual assault committed by Michigan State athletes, but took no apparent action. ...
Even Larry Nassar Does Not Deserve To Be Raped In Prison
Like many Americans, Jan Lastocy was watching the Larry Nassar sentencing hearing this week. She listened to Judge Rosemarie Aquilina....
Betsy DeVos Rolled Back Title IX Protections Two Days After Hanging Out With MSU President<em></em>
It can be hard to keep track of how many different pieces of news broke today, all of them illuminating one larger point—Michigan State really didn’t want to try too hard, if at all, to prevent or investigate sexual assault or gender violence on its campus, and they were especially reluctant to do s...
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...
Michigan State's Issues With Reporting Sexual Assault Go Well Beyond The Larry Nassar Scandal
Michigan State trustee Joel Ferguson said it first, and he said it best: “There’s so many more things going on at the university than just this Nassar thing.”...
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...