Nassar Sentence: 40-175

Dear Larry...

100 years.  Round number.  Still not enough for the pain he caused.

Time for MSU athletics to get the death warrant too.

I'm kind of wondering how he got "only" 40-175 years, but whatever, I'm comforted that he'll die in jail.

He will spend his days in isolation. Even if he was put in population there are ways to hide. Charles Manson did it by spending every possible second in the law library.

The fact that more people aren't calling for Hollis' head, sickens me.

That jerk has got to go.

I would be absolutely shocked if he was not killed in prison. My friend went to jail for three years for statutory rape (he 100% deserved this) and when someone found out that he had some kind of sex crime with a minor without knowing the slightly mitigating details of it being consensual he knocked out my friend with a punch from behind.

A lot of people are going to know who Nassar is. I don't like his survival chances.

Charlie Pierce is one of my favorite writers, and he hits it out of the park with this SI piece:

Burn it all down. That is the calm and reasoned conclusion to which I have come as one horror story after another unspooled in the courtroom. Nobody employed in the upper echelons at USA Gymnastics, or at the United States Olympic Committee, or at Michigan State University should still have a job. If accessorial or conspiracy charges plausibly can be lodged against those people, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Those people should come out of civil courts wearing barrels. Their descendants should be answering motions in the 22nd Century. In fact, I can argue convincingly that none of those three institutions should continue to exist in its current form. USA Gymnastics and the USOC should lose their non-profit status forthwith. Michigan State should lose its status within the NCAA for at least five years. American gymnastics is no longer a sport. It’s a conspiracy of pedophiles and their enablers.

Full story here: https://www.si.com/olympics/2018/01/24/larry-nassar-sentencing-usa-gymnastics-abuse-victims-michigan-state?utm_campaign=si-olympics&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&xid=socialflow_twitter_si

..ala OJ, or the Menendez brothers? I don't recall seeing anything on that so I assume they were not, for the sake of the victims but they shoudl have worke dout some kind of camera angel where you could only hear the victims voices and see Nassar, his lawyers, and Simon etc. while they were in court.  Could something like that be edited after the fact to add to the exposure.  

When I worked in a courtroom during law school, there were cameras available in all angles and the kept tapes on file to run back testimony, etc. Seems doable. 

Even if he only got 40 years, that is effectively still life in prison unless he somehow gets out on parole at the ripe old age of 94. But odds are he'll never see the outside of a jail cell ever again. 

I honestly wonder how long he'll last in there. Especially if he's in general population. If you asked me, it wouldn't at all shock me to hear 2-3 years from now that the guards came by his cell one morning and found that he'd hung himself or found a razor blade and slit his wrists. If it doesn't come from the realization that he's lost everything in his life and ruined the lives of hundreds of women, it could come from knowing that the minute he sets foot in prison, he's fresh meat. From knowing that before too long, he's going to get a first-hand experience of what he did to his victims. 

Not that I look to prison inmates for any sign of a moral compass, but I have to believe that a man who sexually abuses little girls is going to be pretty low on their totem pole. Maybe just a smidge above being the prison snitch. 

In a way it's always felt a bit incongruous that what initially lassoed Nassar wasn't the hundreds of girls he molested but child pr0n.  Child porn is obviously abhorrent but it almost feels like Al Capone's tax returns.

The next step though is holding his enablers accountable.  While monster who plumbs the depths of perversion like Nassar is a one-in-a-million occurence, the culture of silence and shame that enables not only him but other lesser* sexual predators to florish is still all too commonplace.  MSU and USAG may have been the perfect storm of complicity but a similar tragedy could happen anywhere else where we hear but fail to listen or believe.  I called the Office of Public Affairs at Michigan to urge them to proactively ensure now that we'll be ready if a similarly unthinkable scenario is discovered on our campus.   

The ultimate tragedy wasn't that MSU and USAG liked having a serial molester in their midst.  I'm sure that, to a man or woman, 99.9% of the leadership doesn't want a serial rapist in their midst and finds such abuses to be utterly sickening.  The problem was that they didn't find them sickening enough to take action to stop them.

** - the other obvious thing that must be said:  although other sexual predators' crimes will likely be less awful in their sum total than Nassar, they're each equally jarring for whoever their victims are.

Great judge. I still believe he should have to listen to the impact statements on loop in his cell but I know, 8th amendment blah blah blah

Those sick people need to avoid sending death threats to his defense attorney and his kids, though. In this republic, we have a constitution that must be upheld and the 6th amendment clearly grants every citizen here, no matter how heinous a criminal, legal council. It's a total disservice to those victims now survivors to think you're acting on the behalf by going after the defense lawyer who is just doing his job. You aren't in any way shape or form to tell you the truth

It's scary to think that while these things have been discovered at places like PSU and MSU that there have probably been some successful cover ups.

is ironically also the record I hope MSU football has over the next 18 seasons.

The judge believes they got the right guy.

Pretty sure the 60 years for child porn was a death sentence.

Out of curiosity has there been any talk about what parents knew or heard? I'm just curious. I worked with women's gymnastics at bowling green (i'm an athletic trainer) years back and honestly unless there is a major medical issues most of the athletes just get treatment and go about there day. But I also wonder how many parents were told and what they did with the info? This is a very sensitive thing to talk about (which shows how courageous these women are) so many of them may not have said anything to their parents.

I just wonder because from my experience a whole lot of dads would be showing up the next day if their daughter told them this. Actually, a whole lot of dads would have been showing up at nassar's office in my experience. On the other hand as someone who has been very close to gymnastics and that whole culture it's freaking weird. The culture is "listen to your coaches and shut the f*ck up" at the elite level. 

I assume what happened is a few young women bravely told people at msu and they were ignored or virtually threatened to not say anything and the women just were quiet after that. 

I hope they map out the entire thing so we can see what happened and prevent it from happening in the future. I honestly can't even read these articles it makes me want to kill someone.