By Jeremy Stahl,\u00a0senior editor, November 22, 2017<\/p>\n
Former U.S. Olympic gymnastics team doctor Lawrence G. Nassar pled guilty<\/a> on Wednesday to seven counts of sexual assault in Michigan. Nassar had served as Team USA\u2019s physician through four Olympics and has been accused of abuse by some of the most prominent names in the sport, including Olympic gold medalists Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney, and Gabby Douglas.<\/p>\n \u201cYou used your position of trust in the most vile way: to abuse children,”\u00a0Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said after the guilty plea. “I agree that now is a time of healing, but it may take them a lifetime of healing while you spend your life behind bars thinking of what you did by taking away their childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n The plea deal allowed for all 125 victims who reported assaults to Michigan State Police to give victim impact statements when Nassar is sentenced in January, CNN reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Nassar faces 25 to 40 years in prison on each count. He was Michigan State University\u2019s team physician for gymnastics and women\u2019s crew for nearly 20 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Nassar is also awaiting sentencing on Monday on federal charges<\/a> of receiving and possessing child pornography and attempted destruction of evidence to which he pled guilty in June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Here is a short list of some of Nassar\u2019s confessed crimes and some of those that have been reported publicly:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n And here\u2019s how the officials responsible for the various institutions Nassar leveraged to commit his crimes had responded to the accusations:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After the guilty plea, lawyers for Nassar\u2019s victims called on<\/a> Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon to either publicly release its internal investigation into how the university may have responded to reports of Nassar’s assaults, or to resign.<\/p>\n\n
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