even include statements from survivors’ family members and support systems. McCaul delivered her impact statement Friday afternoon with her dance instructor by her side. “This past year and a half has been, without a doubt, the most difficult and traumatic period of my life,” McCaul said in her statement. During the first week of sentencing, an investigation from The Detroit News revealed MSU President Lou Anna Simon and 13 other MSU officials knew of the survivor reports and Title IX investigations into Nassar in 2014. State legislators, media outlets and students began to call for Simon’s resignation. McCaul’s impact statement echoed that sentiment. “In the aftermath of Nassar’s crimes, calls have been renewed for MSU President, Lou Anna K. Simon, to resign,” McCaul said. “The fact that she has yet to do so is insulting to the hundreds of survivors like me — it is, in fact, 42 months, countless slanderous public statements by Jason Cody, calls from numerous Congressmen and women and one $150,000 slap-in-the-face of a raise too late.” According to a 2016 lawsuit, one of the first survivors — an Olympic gymnast — stated Nassar sexually abused her in 1994, years before McCaul was even born. “How many little girls could have been spared from this lifelong battle,” McCaul said, “if someone at the university had done the bare minimum and listened?” Though the hearing extended beyond Friday, McCaul and many fellow survivors decided to stay until Nassar received his final sentence. McCaul will have missed nearly two weeks of school for the hearing, but supporting the women who continued to come forward was too important to her. “Coming back I feel is really important because a lot of statements that have been given in the past few days reference the community of survivors and how people feel more comfortable sharing their story, and they only found their voice as a result of people that came before,” McCaul said. “So I want to be here and show them were still here for them I want to learn their names I want to give them a hug, show them that we are here for them.” McCaul’s lawyers originally brought seven of the survivors together. The group went through mediation together and formed a lasting connection. “But we really bonded in a way that was unanticipated,” McCaul said. “We knew that we would get along but we talk every day, we’ve gone out to dinner together, we’ve gone over to each other’s houses. We speak every day. It kind of set the grounds like we need to start a community, we need the relief that we felt from meeting each other.” One of the women McCaul spoke with was Jessica Smith, a survivor who created the #MeTooMSU Facebook group, a forum to share stories and raise awareness of the culture of abuse plaguing MSU’s campus. McCaul demanded Aquilina deliver the strongest sentence. “Judge Aquilina, I implore you to impose a sentence against this man which sends an unmistakable message to those who perpetrate heinous crimes against young people,” McCaul said. “Whether they molest and maim, or look the other way to protect their Green-and-White.” Aquilina took note of the powerful community of women and girls she dubbed “sister survivors” she saw in her courtroom. Following the final impact statement from survivor Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to go public with accusations in 2016, Aquilina said, “You built an army of survivors, and you are the five- star general.” No one knew what to expect going into the first day of sentencing. But McCaul had an idea of how emotional it would be. “We had no way to prepare ourselves for what this was going to look like and that first day was so difficult, it was so cathartic, so intensely emotional that it was really hard to deal with,” McCaul said. “And I don’t think — and I mean media cover can only do so much, live stream can only do so much — but it is so different to watch it from a screen than to be in that room and feel that energy. And to be in a room with him. To see Larry after all of this is crazy. “ Eight days and 156 impact statements later, each as powerful as the one before, Aquilina sentenced Nassar to 40 to 175 years in state prison. 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