Larry Nassar Sex Abuse Scandal

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"The more it goes on, the more it starts to feel like a Sandusky situation," he said, referring to the sex abuse scandal at Penn State University(Connor 1). The man who is alike or similar to the sex abuser Jerry sandusky in this whole situation is Larry Nassar, he’s an american convicted of being a serial child molester who was the USA gymnastics national team doctor and an osteopathic physician at Michigan State University. Larry was just a normal or an indifferent person, also look upon as no harm before he was accused of molesting at least 260 girls and young women. While discovering Nassar was fired from MSU in 2016 after the Indianapolis Star reported the first public allegations against him. Since then, more than 260 women have …show more content…

Michigan State fired him on September 20 after realizing it could make them look bad. The NCAA, which informed MSU of its investigation Tuesday 30th january, apparently listens to victims of sexual assault about as well as the institutions that failed to protect them from Nassar. Larry is not the only person to start a civil war with its own university and make it now have a bad representation.“The only case that’s out there that’s even similar in stature is Penn State, and this is now six times as big as Penn State, maybe seven times,” Grewal said, referring to boys who said they were sexually abused by assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky”(Eggert). Jerry Sandusky is the also a man who torn down the dreams of a nice school. ‘’Even as the case of Larry Nassar at Michigan State University continues to unfold, its similarities to that of Jerry Sandusky, who was arrested in 2011 for sexually abusing young boys at Penn State University and elsewhere, are striking’’(Eric Levenson)Six years after the Sandusky scandal rocked Penn State, university leadership is still fighting a civil war over the case, a conflict fueled, in part, by weaknesses that have developed in investigations that concluded top Penn State officials covered up for the convicted child …show more content…

The Indianapolis Star revealed that two former gymnasts had accused Nassar of sex abuse. Since the first public statements were made in September 2016, more than 265 women including former USAG national team members Jamie Dantzscher, Jeanette Antolin, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, Maggie Nichols, Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles, and Jordyn Wieber, have accused Nassar of sexually assaulting them. It is one of the biggest sexual abuse scandals in sports history or even modern history. Alike Larry, Harvey Weinstein was once at the very top of Hollywood. As accusations of his sexual predation came to light, it didn't just trigger his downfall. It ushered in a tidal wave of exposure of sexual impropriety in the film industry. There are 84 accurers towards Harvey and most of them are from best actress like Cara Delevingne, the 25-year-old English actress and model, who has a big audience to speak to about this. ‘’As soon as we were alone he began to brag about all the actresses he had slept with and how he had made their careers and spoke about other inappropriate things of a sexual nature’’(Cara). According to the women's reports, Weinstein would invite young actresses or models into a hotel room or office on discussing their career, and then demand massages or sex. He told them that complying with his demands would help their careers, without the actress's knowledge as

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