By ABBY LLOYD<\/p>\n
On Feb. 2, Larry Nassar, ex-USA gymnastics team doctor and Michigan\u00a0State University athletics trainer, had his third criminal hearing in front of his victims and their family members. Nassar harmed more than 250 victims and will be sentenced somewhere from 40 to 175 years in prison.<\/p>\n
Nassar was a osteopathic doctor, which meant he moved his hands over a patient’s muscles and joints to stretch and apply pressure and resistance to those joints. However, he took the care too far. Nassar stated after getting caught that “as a doctor, he was in a position of authority over his victims,\u00a0and that he used that position to coerce\u00a0them to submit to the penetration.”<\/p>\n
As girl after girl after girl, came up to the podium to speak the gruesome details of her attack, parent Randal Margraves\u00a0grew angry and unsettled. Margraves, a father of three daughters all of which were abused by Nassar, commented to the judge, “Give me one minute with that bastard.”<\/p>\n
After Judge\u00a0Janice Cunnigham responded to his request “no,” Margraves ran over to Nassar and his attorney and attacked him. He was tackled by four deputies and escorted out of the courtroom. His daughters all screaming “Dad!” while his wife hugged them.<\/p>\n
“There is no way this court is going to issue any type of punishment due to the circumstances of this case,” Eaton County Circuit Judge Janice Cunningham said later the same day.<\/p>\n
On Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram people are calling\u00a0Margraves a “hero.” Someone started a GoFundMe page for him that is currently at $2,000 in donations to the family.<\/p>\n
Before this all happened, Nassar was getting away with his countless sexual assaults. A softball player at Michigan State, Tiffany Lopez, who was also assaulted was told by someone she confined in that “she was fortunate to receive the best medical care possible from a world-renowned doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n
More than five girls came forward about Nassar’s abuse to Michigan State officials. However, they weren’t taken seriously. When officials decided to ask Nassar about such accusations he replied that they were “misunderstandings with the girls.”\u00a0The twisted world we live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By ABBY LLOYD On Feb. 2, Larry Nassar, ex-USA gymnastics team doctor and Michigan\u00a0State University athletics trainer, had his third criminal hearing in front of his victims and their family members. Nassar harmed more than 250 victims and will be … Continue reading