Dr. Larry Nassar Sentenced to 40 to 175 Years for Sexual Abuse

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Source: NYT

LANSING, Mich. — After an extraordinary seven-day hearing that drew more than 150 young women to speak out publicly about sexual abuse they said was committed by Dr. Lawrence G. Nassar, the former team doctor for the American gymnastics team, a judge sentenced him on Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison.

He had faced a minimum term of 25 to 40 years.

Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, who had opened her courtroom to all the young women who wanted to address Dr. Nassar directly, and forced him to listen when he pleaded to make it stop, handed down the sentence, saying to Dr. Nassar, “You’ve done nothing to deserve to walk outside a prison again.”

“I just signed your death warrant,” she said as she pronounced the sentence.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/sports/larry-nassar-sentencing.html

[demigoddess]

1. here's hoping he never goes free again

and I loved it when the judge said he is not a doctor and should not practice while in jail.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Likely Die In Prison

And that's not a bad thing.

[OliverQ]

3. Keep in mind he also got 60 years from the Federal courts

for child pornography. This sentence is on top of that one.

[samnsara]

4. watch his lawyer try to get him off saying the judge was too mean..

[AtheistCrusader]

14. I actually wish she hadn't said that bit about the death warrant.

That WILL be the basis of multiple appeals.

I get the sentiment. I do. But tactically that was unfortunate.

[gopiscrap]

17. I agree

[jimmil]

5. Still not enough time..... He needs at least 1000 years.... N/T

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. "he complained about his treatment in a separate federal child pornography case "!!

he wrote in a letter that his accusers in this case were seeking news media attention and money.
“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” he wrote in the letter.
There were audible gasps from the gallery when the judge read the line.

Damned egotistical perv gave the judge more than enough rope. Child abuse won't go over well in his new quarters.

[saidsimplesimon]

7. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina,

Thank you for giving me a reason to hold hope. Also, thank you to Madame Jill Wine-Banks for her courage.

[benld74]

8. He wont last 5

[Pathwalker]

9. 156 women appeared in court, 24 gave written statments,

bringing the total number of women known to have been molested by this monster to ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY!!!

May he die in prison. He will.

[EllieBC]

10. Good!!!

I hope he never sees the outside again.

I feel awful for all those kids, and their parents, who trying to follow their dreams and were abused in the process.

And I wish Canada would learn that this is how you sentence people. Not the joke sentences people get up here.

[GreenEyedLefty]

11. Looks like the impact statements made an impact.

Every criminal's face should look like Nassar's when they are finally hauled away to prison.

[dem in texas]

12. Where were the parents when he was molesting their daughters??

I don't get it. How could he have molested so many little girls? If some man had touched me when I was young, I would have told my mom and she would have stormed out the door raising hell.

[TygrBright]

16. Well, you were a different kind of little girl than I was.

As a little girl, I believed what adults told me. If an adult told me that I would get in terrible trouble by talking about something, or (worse!) that my parents would be in trouble, or be disappointed, or whatever, I tended to believe the adult.

And when adults talked about how "dirty" or "wrong" or "bad" certain acts were- things that happened to me- I translated that into *I* was the one "dirty" or "wrong" or "bad". Highly conducive to not telling anyone that about myself.

Kids are *vulnerable*.

And kids whose parents express great approval, hope, and investment in their success in some activity the kid is participating in- athletic, artistic, whatever- may be unconsciously setting up that kid to guard the parents' expectations and approval by submitting to whatever is required of them in the process of that activity, no matter what.

Kids are *vulnerable*.

Older kids who've already been in trouble for something and hated what being in trouble got them learn not to seek out trouble, too. This culture gives them plenty of reason for keeping their own counsel. "She's just an attention-seeker." "He's just trying to distract from his underachieving." "He's always had a vivid imagination." "She'll tell any story to deflect blame."

Kids are *vulnerable*.

Maybe not all of them, in all contexts, but by and large, the vast majority of them are deeply vulnerable. Laws make them the property of parents. A public who don't want to be taxed to pay for the resources need to ensure their well-being abandon them. Religious institutions seek control over them to ensure the next generation of compliant believers.

Kids are *vulnerable*.

Parents are not always their friends, even loving parents conscientiously trying to do their best.

sadly,
Bright

[AtheistCrusader]

18. There's nearly two hundred kids involved.

This requires a severe re-evaluation of the thresholds of exactly how vulnerable children are.

And/Or, the parents failed them as well.

Also, the USA Gymnastics and the USOC apparently protected this shitbag, and fostered an environment where he could pull this off. They might need to be burned to the ground and re-built too. This isn't solved with a fresh round of standards of business conduct training.

[Boomer]

19. Many mothers were right there

Nasser convinced the adults he was conducting legitimate medical procedures and they didn't question that, even when they were in the same room as he "manipulated" their daughters.

One of the truly horrible cases was the girl who visited Nasser's home with her parents, who were good friends of the Nasser family. He abused her for years during joint family gatherings, and she finally told her parents, her father accused her of lying and made the girl apologize to Nasser.

[LisaL]

20. He convinced them he was conducting legit medical treatment.

[osaMABUSh]

13. USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University

Share much blame for allowing this. Sandusky scandal pales compared to this and received way more press coverage

[llmart]

21. Absolutely!

MSU especially.

[Pathwalker]

22. Lou Anna K. Simons has RESIGNED as head of MSU!!!

It's a start...

[llmart]

23. Yes!

The buck stops there.

[obamanut2012]

15. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina's sentencing statement was so perfect, and so wonderful

I watched it live.

#scotus