Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse victims came to the stand one by one. Some steeled their courage and planned to give statements about how the abuse by the former USA Gymnastics doctor affected them. Others, inspired by these first women’s words, reached out to the judge and said they, too, wanted to be heard during the several days allotted for victims’ testimony at Nassar’s sentencing hearing. All told, 156 women provided heartbreaking, emotional statements over seven days.
They had one purpose — to convince Michigan Judge Rosemarie Aquilina that Nassar, who worked with USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, deserved the harshest sentence possible for the criminal sexual conduct charges to which he pleaded guilty last November.
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