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🗓️ 6 May 2015
⏱️ 84 minutes
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This interview was released December 5th 2013. US national team member, Maggie Nichols, told USA Gymnastics about being abused by Nassar in June 2015. As of this update in January of 2018, she is the first known person to tell USA Gymnastics.... Then Rachael Denhollander, became the first survivor to go public in the Indy Star with accusations against Nassar in September 2016. It turns out that former doctor, Nassar had been abusing girls and women all the way back to the 1990s. And theses brave women, girls had been telling authorities all along, but they weren't believed.
Larry Nassar is now a convicted pedophile and child pornographer who will spend the rest of his life in jail. This episode makes us feel guilty, sick and embarrassed but we will never take it down. Why? Because it may be one of the few interviews of it's kind, one with a serial child molester before he was caught. It shows how easy it is to groom adults, like us and our listeners (look a the comments section), and people in power, people who should have known better, including the USOC, USA Gymnastics, former USAG President Steve Penny, Martha Karolyi, former Chairmans of the Board Peter Vidmar and current Chariman Paul Parilla. To understand more about why we have chosen to keep this interview up as a learning tool and how every system failed to protect girls, please read, listen and learn from the following:
A Safeguarding Checklist: 12 questions every parent, young adult, and coach should ask.
Indy Star series A Blind eye to sex abuse: How USA Gymnastics failed to report cases.
USA Gymnastics Chose Medals Over Child Safety
Listen to survivor impact statements at the sentencing hearing here.
Timeline of Larry Nassar's Crimes and Career.
Abused: Surviving Sexual Assault and a Toxic Gymnastics Culture by Rachel Haines.
Want to know who see's everything at The Ranch? Who runs the room where Kyla Ross said cameras should follow the team if they really want to see where the action is at camp. Who we would pick if we were going to pick a doctor to take care of our kids while they traveled around the world flipping at speeds that would make an astronaut jealous? It's USA Gymnastics Team Physician, Larry Nassar, A.T.C. He's a professor, a certified athletic trainer, an osteopath and one of the most caring human beings you could ever hope to meet. A blunt, honest, experienced professional who tells it like it is. He can do that because he's so compassionate. This interview originally aired on December 6, 2013. We discussed:
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0:00.0 | Warning this episode talks about sexual abuse in graphic detail. It's taken me three years to |
0:09.3 | re-record an intro to this episode because I feel guilty about it and I hate it so much. |
0:16.0 | But it's taken time to feel like I've done my part to change the culture in gymnastics. We actually did two episodes |
0:24.4 | about preventing abuse before this episode aired, but I didn't realize that I was |
0:29.0 | groomed myself and the reason that I've never taken this episode down is because it provides evidence of what grooming sounds like, how it works, |
0:40.0 | and why it's so important to have safeguarding measures in place. |
0:46.0 | This was episode 63 or 62. |
0:48.8 | It was posted on December 5th, 2013. I'm re-recording this intro April 22nd, 2019. |
1:00.0 | We now know that Larry Nassar is a serial pedophile and child abuser and he got away with it for years and years and years because he groomed everyone, the public, parents, law enforcement, officials |
1:20.0 | at USA Gymnastics, people at his university, |
1:24.3 | the athletic departments, coaches. |
1:26.5 | He had been reported for sexual abuse |
1:31.0 | for 20 years before he was finally caught. |
1:35.0 | He had been reported to police. |
1:38.0 | He had been questioned by police. |
1:40.0 | He had been reported by multiple women. |
1:42.0 | He had been reported by multiple women. He had been reported to mandatory reporters. |
1:45.0 | He is now serving what's effectively a life term in prison for possession of |
1:51.0 | child pornography and also for sexual assault. |
1:56.2 | Things that you'll notice in this episode and the reason I've never taken it down |
2:00.8 | is because you can hear the groom and you can hear my affection for him how I think |
2:04.5 | he's so great and when I think back on it why did I think he was so great I thought he |
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