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Lawrence Gerard Nassar (born August 16, 1963) [4] is an American serial child rapist and former family medicine physician. From 1996 to 2014, he was the team doctor of the United States women's national gymnastics team, where he used his position to exploit and sexually assault hundreds of young athletes as part of the largest sexual abuse scandal in sports history.
Since 1990, USA Gymnastics has kept a list of people permanently banned from coaching for sexual abuse and other reasons. The list includes Robert Dean Head, a USAG coach in Kentucky who in 1992 pled guilty to raping a 12-year-old, and Don Peters, the national coach for the 1984 Olympic team, who was banned in 2011 after two former gymnasts accused him of sexual abuse.
Former Michigan State gymnastics coach Kathie Klages is the latest person to face criminal charges in the aftermath of disgraced team doctor Larry Nassar's widespread sexual abuse.
The settlement follows a $380 million settlement with both USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee in 2021, and a $500 million settlement with Michigan State in 2018.
156 women vented at the doctor they say molested them, but there was just as much anger for the institutions where he worked, MSU and USA Gymnastics. Gymnastics scandal: 8 times Larry Nassar could ...
Rachael Joy Denhollander (née Moxon; born December 8, 1984) is an American lawyer and former gymnast.She was the first woman to publicly accuse Larry Nassar, the former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor, of sexual assault. [1]
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John Gerald Geddert (December 21, 1957 – February 25, 2021) was an American artistic gymnastics coach, who was a head coach of the gold-medal 2012 U.S. women's Olympic team and regular coach of team member Jordyn Wieber. [1]