Larry Nassar case: Who is Judge Rosemarie Aquilina? “This treatment is where he would rub out your back or your hamstrings with one arm or one hand and he would use his other hand to do pressure points or massage on, in, around your genital area ... to be clear about this, it was skin-on-skin contact. Dantzscher, a former Team USA gymnast, told "60 Minutes" said her abuse started when she was 13, and ended when she was 18. Former gymnasts Dominique Moceanu, Jamie Dantzscher and Jessica Howard testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on March 28, 2017, concerning the bill. "It is so very difficult to put the trauma and suffering of this assault into words," she said. Katherine, then 15, went to Nassar for back pain in the 1990s in metro Detroit. UPDATE: As of Jan. 26, Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for being found guilty of the sexual abuse of more than 150 gymnasts among other women athletes during his long tenure at Michigan State University. He worked for the US gymnastics team in four Olympic Games, regularly rushing to the help of gymnasts who might have fallen awkwardly. One lawmaker on the committee was so moved by Becky Leach’s testimony that he suggested the panel go ahead and vote on the legislation to usher it forward in the legislative process more quickly. Having reached a point where she had started to question whether the abuse had indeed occurred, she tried again to explain to her parents what had happened. "I was a Larry Nassar survivor. Ex-Olympic doctor Larry Nassar has received a 175-year sentence for abuse. And then he just continued to go into more and more intimate places," she told Jon LaPook of CBS News. They grow into strong women who return to destroy your world.". Nassar, 54, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1985 and joined the medical staff of the US national gymnastics team based in Indianapolis a year later. The former Team USA gymnast said she was almost always alone with Nassar for … "I was ready to speak," Kyle said in an interview with the BBC after her testimony. Rachael's bravery helped encourage other women to come forward. The biggest sex abuse scandal in sports history shines a light on a culture of medals over morals As part of the growing #MeToo movement online, Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney took to Twitter to share her story of years of sexual abuse at the hands of Nassar. After that, Nassar appeared to look up and listen to the survivors with greater frequency. Then, he physically abused her - all while both their families were in the same house. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Douglas meant that Nassar abused her, a representative for the 2012 Olympic champion confirmed. We wondered how families of younger gymnasts may feel about this story, and we sent WAMU's Selena Simmons-Duffin to a training center in Silver Spring, Md. Nassar had a strikingly similar pattern of how he abused young women, the vast majority of whom were gymnasts. When he started treatment, I remember him saying his treatment relied upon applying pressure to areas around the pelvis and that this was normal. "Perhaps you have figured it out by now, but little girls don't stay little forever. There is no map that shows you the pathway to healing. By projecting a sense of normality from his position of authority, Nassar made his victims feel they were wrong to believe this was abuse, and that they would be in the wrong if they complained. Judge Aquilina called her "the five-star general in the army of survivors". I didn’t publicly share my experiences as well as many other things because for years we were conditioned to stay silent and honestly some things were extremely painful.”. "There are no words that can describe the depth and breadth of how sorry I am for what has occurred. 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