US women's gymnastics...

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Why are you guys arguing about where it could happen? It happened in football so it can happen anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Here they are:

http://www.espn.com/espnw/voices/article/22145563/hear-larry-nassar-victims-their-own-powerful-brave-words

Thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:If you have not watched Aly Raisman's victim impact statement all the way through, I encourage you to do so. Extremely courageous and powerful - and she calls out members of the USOC and USA Gymnastics, quite heavily.

+1,000,000 - The US Olympic Committee should all be prosecuted for their cover-up over the years and only God knows how many children brutally raped.

[Anonymous]

This creep has been abusing girls for over 20 years now. I can't believe that there was not a single father/brother/uncle who didn't go around and break his leg (or other body parts)!

[Anonymous]

I hope Larry's fellow inmates are raping his ass every day and night. That would be karma.

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Anonymous wrote:It's really sickening to me that Nassar was involved with both the Karolyis' and John Geddert. Both men seem to me to be feared by the gymnasts they coach and Nassar was there to "save" them. I've only read a little about Geddert, but I've read many stories over the years about Bella Karolyi belittling gymnasts for their weight and forcing them to adhere to extremely strict diets, outbursts of rage and anger, incidents of physical violence and then physiological torment by doing things like completely ignoring a gymnast if he felt she wasn't performing correctly.

At 6 years old, I remember watching Mary Lou Retton compete in the Olympics and I also grew up idolizing Nadia. Bella Karolyi was the coach for both of these gymnasts, but I've never heard either one say anything negative about him. Is this some kind of sick loyalty thing or did he have favorites that he treated "decently"? Did he only prey on certain ones because from everything I've read it seemed like everything he did was done very much in the open and in front of other gymnasts as a way of creating fear, shame and intimidation. More and more, this just seems like such a bizarre and sick world.

My knowledge of gymnastics is rather limited, but even I know that Karolyi is a violent nutjob. I would never leave my child in his care. Chasing Olympic gold isn't a legit reason to abdicate parental responsibility of your child. It just makes you look greedy and irresponsible. And now we have proof that it was a reckless decision with heartbreaking consequences.

Why do you believe USA Gymnastics supported such a reckless and abusive environment for these children?

All those gold medals.

My enthusiasm for the next Olympics has diminished. Now I'll have to question if the kids were abused or assaulted in any way during their years of excruciating work.

No way should we believe Nassar is the only one. Just look how much it took to finally take him down. The US Olympic Committee authorities and coaches are obviously NOT protecting the kids from sexual predators. Where are the child protection advocates?

I keep thinking about countries with less justice/freedom. (China, Russia)

Good point. If I watch any of the Katie Curic Olympics this year, I'll definitely be thinking of that. Sometimes these kids get forced into doing things that they'd never do without being forced.

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This whole thing is just stunningly awful. I am just in shock that so many of these young girls complained to coaches, parents and other adults and no one stopped this monster and it just kept on happening over and over and over again. WTF?

Those are some mighty powerful statements those young ladies gave. They are so articulate and good, it just breaks my heart that no one was protecting them. Why? There was no competitive benefit to be gained by looking the other way on this. I just can not fathom what has happened here.....

[Anonymous]

40 to 175 years doesn't seem enough.

http://www.espn.com/olympics/gymnastics/story/_/id/22198997/larry-nassar-sentenced-40-175-years-prison-michigan-judge

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Anonymous wrote:40 to 175 years doesn't seem enough.

http://www.espn.com/olympics/gymnastics/story/_/id/22198997/larry-nassar-sentenced-40-175-years-prison-michigan-judge

No number will be enough, but he will die in prison.

My concern is that he would take his own life. Which on the one hand, good riddance, taxpayers don't need to pay for him anymore. But dude should suffer. I don't believe in an afterlife, so I'm ok with him - and the likes of him - and their enablers - experiencing suffering in this life (although I realize it will not compare to that of survivors of his abuse).

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Anonymous wrote:40 to 175 years doesn't seem enough.

http://www.espn.com/olympics/gymnastics/story/_/id/22198997/larry-nassar-sentenced-40-175-years-prison-michigan-judge

No number will be enough, but he will die in prison.

My concern is that he would take his own life. Which on the one hand, good riddance, taxpayers don't need to pay for him anymore. But dude should suffer. I don't believe in an afterlife, so I'm ok with him - and the likes of him - and their enablers - experiencing suffering in this life (although I realize it will not compare to that of survivors of his abuse).

He'll probably get his guts fuked out by the gay inmates, and then try to kill himself when he can't take it anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:40 to 175 years doesn't seem enough.

http://www.espn.com/olympics/gymnastics/story/_/id/22198997/larry-nassar-sentenced-40-175-years-prison-michigan-judge

What bothers me is that he got 60 years for pictures for possibly 40 years for abusing over 100 girls? That seems backwards to me.

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Anonymous wrote:40 to 175 years doesn't seem enough.

http://www.espn.com/olympics/gymnastics/story/_/id/22198997/larry-nassar-sentenced-40-175-years-prison-michigan-judge

What bothers me is that he got 60 years for pictures for possibly 40 years for abusing over 100 girls? That seems backwards to me.

Very true. Not totally helpful because it's still heinous, but the official charges "only" (I use that term unbelievably loosely) six victims I think? The judge allowed all the victims to speak out of courtesy to them.

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Anonymous wrote:40 to 175 years doesn't seem enough.

http://www.espn.com/olympics/gymnastics/story/_/id/22198997/larry-nassar-sentenced-40-175-years-prison-michigan-judge

What bothers me is that he got 60 years for pictures for possibly 40 years for abusing over 100 girls? That seems backwards to me.

Very true. Not totally helpful because it's still heinous, but the official charges "only" (I use that term unbelievably loosely) six victims I think? The judge allowed all the victims to speak out of courtesy to them.

He got 175 years. I don't know how the math worked out exactly, but it was roughly 40 years per count.

[Anonymous]

WTF was he thinking with the "woman scorned" comment in his letter? How could his attorney have let him believe that was a good idea at all?

[Anonymous]

Anyone see the related Washington Post articles in the Sports Section today or yesterday?