![]() ![]() Klages reportedly told a teenage Larissa Boyce that she couldn’t believe that about Nassar because “that was somebody she trusted and knew for years.” The other gymnast remembered the gist of Klages’ response at the time: “It was more a sense of, ‘Who have you told so far?’ and, ‘Let’s not talk about this anymore.’ ” Two gymnasts told Outside the Lines they told Klages what was happening during their sessions with Nassar. (California is among those states where not reporting a suspected pedophile can carry up to a year in prison.)Īccording to Nassar’s victims, who gave witness-impact testimonies before his sentencing, Michigan State coach Klages was told as early as 1997 of Nassar’s abuse. Even for those who are covered by the law, not reporting suspected child abuse is only a misdemeanor in most states and the potential penalties often don’t include jail time. But coaches – both university and club coaches alike – are not named as mandatory reporters in the statute. She is currently working with state and federal legislators to update laws governing mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse, laws now woefully inept at holding an enabler accountable.įor example, under Michigan law, school and university administrators and teachers are required to alert law enforcement of suspected abuse. female gymnasts to reveal their own abuse by Nassar. In 2016, she filed a police report for the abuse she suffered at the hands of Nassar in 2000 and was the first to go public with her accusations of digital penetration, triggering more than 100 U.S. And if they fail to do that, there need to be real consequences.”ĭenhollander is one of the main reasons Nassar was finally caught. “If we are ever going to genuinely deal with the problem, we have to go after the community that surrounds the predator - because they are the only people who have the ability to stop sexual assault. “If we are really going to ever make a difference when it comes to child sexual abuse, we have to take enabling seriously,” Rachael Denhollander told me. If it takes a village to raise a child, the one thing we’ve found at Penn State, Michigan State and beyond is it also takes a culture of denial to siphon their innocence and dignity. ![]() ![]() Why are they free, albeit living with their shame and professional ruin? Penn State doesn’t get to decide JoePa’s legacy: I know.Michigan State needs to wear this shame.Olympian Aly Raisman publicly confronts her abuser - something fierce.It’s time for Tom Izzo to stop deflecting and start talking.Michigan State beating Purdue was a great moment, but it doesn’t change anything.So why not the people who contributed to the theft of so many children’s souls, who either didn’t believe the detailed stories told by so many girls and women, or whose willful ignorance allowed the assaults to continue? Editor's Picks Its owners should suffer more than just the death of their professional reputations for what happened to girls under their watch.īe it financial chicanery, drug distribution or worse, we put accomplices to major crimes behind bars all the time. It’s now a crime scene that needs to be torched to the ground. The ranch is no longer the legendary gym where Mary Lou Retton and Kerri Strug trained before they won gold. Olympic Committee-funded training facility where parents weren’t allowed, where Nassar was allowed to “work” on young girls unsupervised in a private room? gymnastics, allowed to walk away after USA Gymnastics shut down its training program at Karolyi Ranch – the U.S. Why are Bela and Marta Karolyi, the Romanian coaching couple revered for all the gold medals they helped produce for U.S. coach John Geddert been prosecuted yet? Or any of the disgraced human neckties at Michigan State and the USA Gymnastics who enabled Nassar to continue his abuse over two decades? Why haven’t former Michigan State coach Kathie Klages and former U.S. Like, why is Nassar the only one sentenced to prison? gymnastics physician Larry Nassar was sentenced to likely die in prison after more than 150 young women said he had sexually assaulted them, and there are still some questions I can’t get out of my head. ![]()
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