Nassar sat and listened on the witness stand, sometimes hiding his head in his hands or wiping away tears with a tissue. “Women and girls banded together to fight for themselves because no one else would do it,” she said. She meticulously laid out the ways that the systems failed her and other women and allowed this abuse to continue for so long. The final speaker was Rachael Denhollander, the former gymnast who first made Nassar’s abuse public in a September 2016 story in the Indy Star. Many of the women said that when they spoke up about the treatment, they were ignored or their concerns brushed aside by organizations in power, primarily USA Gymnastics, Michigan State University and the US Olympic Committee.

“The breadth and ripple of this defendant’s abuse and destruction is nearly infinite,” Assistant Attorney General Angela Povilaitis said in her remarks before the sentencing.

Gymnastics families affected everywhere.

Nassar to prison is just the start for survivors.

“I wouldn’t send my dogs to you, sir,” she added. The letter “tells me you still don’t get it,” Aquilina said, tossing the letter dismissively. “The media convinced them that everything I did was wrong and bad. “I was a good doctor because my treatments worked, and those patients that are now speaking out are the same ones that praised and came back over and over,” Nassar wrote. I will carry your words with me for the rest of my days.”īut before delivering her sentence, Aquilina read aloud a letter Nassar wrote to the court recently in which he defended his medical care, said he was “manipulated” into pleading guilty, and accused the women of lying. “An acceptable apology to all of you is impossible to write and convey. “There are no words that can describe the depth and breadth of how sorry I am for what has occurred,” Nassar said. He offered a short statement in court, apologizing and saying that hearing seven days of victim impact statements had shaken him to his core.

Larry Nassar's abuse victims, in their own words Jade Capua,a victim of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, gives her victim impact statement during his sentencing hearing in Lansing, Michigan, January 16, 2018.

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