“more to worry about” than
the Nassar case.
“This is not Penn State,” he
said, referring to the school’s
sex abuse controversy with
ex-football
coach
Jerry
Sandusky several years ago.
“They were dealing with their
football program. ... They’re
smart enough to know they’re
not competent to walk in here
on this.”
MSU’s
athletic
director
released
a
statement
Wednesday
annoucing
his
department
will
cooperate
with the investigation.
Both MSU — where Nassar
worked as a gymnastics team
coach
and
medical
school
faculty
member
for
more
than 20 years — and USA
Gymnastics
came
under
fire
for
enabling
Nassar’s
crimes.
Though
Nassar
remained employed at MSU
until early 2017, a Detroit
News investigation released
last week found more than
a dozen MSU officials had
been made aware of survivors’
reports in the last five years.
Complaints
were
made
as
early as 1997, when then-high
school student Larissa Boyce
reported Nassar’s assault to
Kathie Klages, the women’s
gymnastics coach at MSU. In
an interview with the Detroit
News, Boyce told the Detroit
News Klages told her she must
have been misunderstanding
what
happened,
and
discouraged her from filing an
official report.
Delivering one of the final
victim
impact
statements
before
the
sentencing
on
Wednesday, Kaylee Lorincz
directly implored Nassar to
tell the court who knew of
his abuse, mentioning MSU
president Lou Anna Simon.
In 2014, Simon was informed
of a Title IX complaint and
police report filed against
Nassar,
though
she
claimed it was reported
to her as an “unnamed
physician.”
“I was informed that
a sports medicine doctor
was under investigation,”
she
said
outside
the
courtroom
following
victims’ impact statements
on January 17. “I told
people to play it straight
up, and I did not receive a
copy of the report. That’s
the truth.”
Lorincz asked Nassar
use his time to speak
before
sentencing
to
provide the survivors with
answers.
“Did Lou Anna Simon
know? And lastly, did John
Geddert know you were
stealing the innocence of
little girls in the backroom
of his gym?”
In
addition
to
the
university’s
mishandling
of
the
reports
of
abuse,
survivors
have
also
criticized
the
administration’s behavior
throughout the duration of the
case and sentencing hearing.
In court Friday, Boyce said
she asked Simon to be there to
hear her impact statement, but
was told by Simon she couldn’t
fit it into her schedule.
Following
an
emergency
meeting on Friday, MSU’s
Board of Trustees announced
their continued support for
Simon, saying they would not
act to remove her as president.
They also asked the state
Attorney General’s office to
investigate MSU to determine
if any officials played a role
in
suppressing
complaints
against Nassar.
Trustee Mitch Lyons was
the only one to call for Simon’s
resignation. In a statement
released
to
MLive,
Lyons
said he didn’t believe Simon
had knowingly engaged in
any wrongdoing, but needed
to resign in order for the
community to heal.
“While
President
Simon
has done many great things
during her time at MSU, this
atrocity is simply too much to
overcome and our institutional
accountability
has
been
compromised,” he said. “I have
empathy for the position she is
in but her legacy does not take
precedence in this situation.”
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do with 24 hours to live?
“I really think that I
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This atrocity is
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our institutional
accountability has
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