The Sex-Abuse Victims America Ignored
Updated on January 24, 2018, at 9:29 p.m. ET
It was an arresting moment, even on a day full of them. The Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman stood in front of a courtroom last Friday and addressed Larry Nassar, the former Michigan State University doctor who’s been accused by upwards of 150 women of sexually abusing them over more than two decades. “Larry,” she said from the podium in the Lansing, Michigan, courtroom, “you do realize now that we, this group of women you so heartlessly abused over such a long period of time, are now a force, and you are nothing.”
By the time Raisman’s 13-minute testimony ended, she had castigated not only Nassar but also everyone who she contended had enabled and protected him, including the leadership at USA Gymnastics. A of Raisman giving her statement was disseminated across social media and aired on television. her words and printed them in full. Finally, more than a year after Nassar was first of molesting two young gymnasts, America had woken up to what is being as the largest sexual-abuse scandal in U.S. sports history.
