Name: How Larry Nassar Got Away With Decades of Sexual Abuse | NYT
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“There is now nowhere left for you to hide, Larry.”

More than 160 women say Larry Nassar sexually abused them.

It's one of the worst sexual abuse scandals

And it went on for  more than two decades.

“My real interest, of course, with dance and gymnastics

Nassar had celebrity-like status in the elite gymnastics

and sports medicine world. U.S.A. Gymnastics gave him

He was inducted into Michigan State University's

hall of fame and governors appointed him to state licensing boards.

He even secured a patent for an ankle brace he invented.

his abuse under the guise of a medical treatment.

and used it to treat all sorts of ailments.

He ignored protocol, such as using a glove, asking consent

This was when he started performing the procedure

which I then found out my hips were out of alignment,

which then made my spine and my pelvic bone

And this is when Larry decided that it was medically acceptable

When confronted by parents, coaches, and eventually investigators,

Nassar said patients may have misunderstood his therapy.

Medical colleagues deferred to his expertise

After a 2014 investigation cleared his name,

Nassar was just reminded to follow procedures.

In the training camps of elite gymnastics,

where coaches are  notoriously hard on athletes,

Nassar manipulated girls into believing he

was a trusted friend, advocate and even their protector.

You have to, not let them know, but let them feel it.

Let them understand it. Let them breathe it.”

”He put my picture up on his wall with Olympians.

“You had me so wrapped around your finger,

Nassar won over family members by offering a free treatment,

a quick diagnosis, or often the pretense of transparency.

“At the end of the appointment in your basement,

I remember asking, 'Do I owe you anything?'

He frequently molested young girls with parents

in the room, using a draped towel or practiced

positioning to conceal where his fingers were massaging.

“What kind of a person has the audacity

to sexually assault a child in front of their mother?”

to safeguard the young women in their care.

When U.S.A. Gymnastics got a complaint about Nassar in 2016,

the organization paid the gymnast $1.25 million

to stop her from speaking about the abuse.

reached officials at Michigan State University

years before the prized doctor was terminated.

MSU has said that no one at the University

believed that Nassar committed sexual abuse prior

to the newspaper reports in the summer of 2016.

Nassar's victims say that if the university had investigated

the first complaint, scores of young girls

“Larry Nassar did not arise in isolation.

Rather we saw the worst sexual assault scandal in history

unfold because a predator was left in power for decades.

despite red flags, despite direct reports of assault.”

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