Gymnastics Doctor's Victims Speak, As Simone Biles Says She Was Also Abused

Style Magazine Newswire | 1/19/2018, 12:28 p.m.
Nearly 90 women who allege they were sexually assaulted by a former USA Gymnastics doctor plan to speak about the …
Larry Nassar

Source:NPR.org

Nearly 90 women who allege they were sexually assaulted by a former USA Gymnastics doctor plan to speak about the abuse during a four-day sentencing hearing. Larry Nassar is accused of sexually abusing more than 140 women and girls as the doctor for Team USA and Michigan State University. He has pleaded guilty in Ingham County, Mich., to seven first-degree sexual assault charges. Before ordering a sentence, the judge in the case is allowing all of his accusers to speak if they want to. The first accuser to speak was not a patient of Nassar's, but a family friend. In an emotional speech that left several people in the courtroom weeping, Kyle Stephens recounted the trauma of the first time she said she was molested at Nassar's house and the deep family rift it caused when she told her parents of the abuse and they didn't believe her.

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