Finale: The Reckoning

Believed

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The world watches as more than 200 women and girls confront Larry Nassar at his sentencing hearings. "Little girls don't stay little forever," says one survivor. "They grow into strong women that return to destroy your world."

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Kate in this slency.
0:03.9	We need a little bit of your help.
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0:14.4	That'll help NPR learn more about you and the kind of stuff you like to listen to.
0:18.7	That again is npr.org slash podcast survey.
0:24.2	This is our final episode.
0:26.8	And so one more time, we have the same warning.
0:30.5	You're going to get a lot more out of this if you go back and start with the first episode.
0:35.0	We use adult language and we are going to talk about sexual assault and other tough subjects.
0:56.8	Tuesday, January 16th, 2018, the first day of Larry Nassar's sentencing hearing.
1:07.3	The first day survivors get to face him in person.
1:11.8	This place is packed.
1:13.8	It is crazy how young some of the faces in this courtroom are.
1:18.2	It is one thing to know that Larry Nassar's victims are young.
1:21.4	It is another to actually see 15 year olds sitting here with their moms.
1:27.2	Larry is brought in.
1:28.9	His hands are uncuffed.
1:30.5	He sits up at the front next to his lawyer in the witness stand.
1:34.4	Judge Rosemarria Aqualina wants him here so victims can look at him directly while they
1:41.0	make their statements.
1:42.0	And do you understand that you are here for something today?
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