Doctors gymnastics team could put back in 1997 year: who and why he was saved

At the hearing on sentencing Larry Nassar 156 women were made against one of their most respected doctors who they say acted inappropriately on them while he examined them for injuries. Not only is the doctor facing lawsuits, but also institutions - Michigan State University (MSU) and USA Gymnastics - that ignored opportunities to stop the abuse 20 years ago.

“This could have stopped in 1997,” one accuser said.

NBC News describes some cases of abuse by Nassar when female athletes reported inappropriate behavior of a doctor.

1997 year

Larisa Boyce was an 16-year-old gymnast who participated in the MSU youth program, when, according to her, she and an 14-year-old girl who wanted to remain anonymous, told trainer Katie Kladzhs that Nassar had penetrated them.

Kladzh, a close friend of Nassar, "interrogated" the girls and told them that they misunderstood what Nassar was doing, Boyce said at the hearing. According to Boyce, Kladzs spoke about the girls' complaint to Nassar, who then tried to settle everything at the next meeting.

Kladzhs, who was removed and then allowed to resign last year for her ardent doctor’s defense, denied all claims.

"If she had ever received any information that called into question Dr. Nassar's credibility, she would have responded immediately and defended her gymnasts," her lawyer said at the time. Her new lawyer declined to comment.

Boyce added that Nassar would not have been able to inflict so much pain on other athletes if Klages had reported her complaint.

“I told her,” Boyce said. “And instead of receiving protection, I was humiliated.”

1999 year

MSU workers sent the runner Christie Achenbach to Nassar after injuring his hamstrings. She was shocked when he began to stroke the pelvis and then penetrated her fingers.

Christine called her parents, and then informed her coach, Kelly Burt. At that time, her coach said that he was a respected doctor and the athlete should trust him.

Bert did not comment on this situation to NBC News, but earlier said that she did not remember the complaint and would report any sexual abuse.

2000 year

Tiffany Lopez was a freshman softball player at MSU who was referred to Nassar after an injury. Lopez first told her coach, Lianna Hadden, about the intravaginal “procedures,” who expressed outrage at the athlete. After this, Lopez told another coach, Destiny Technor-Hauck, to which she told her: “He is a world famous doctor, he treats female athletes the same.”

“She made me feel like I was crazy,” Lopez said.

Technore Hauk and Hadden, who are still working at MSU, did not comment on this statement.

2000-2001 years

Volleyball player Jennifer Ruud Bedford said that her team called Nassara "perineum doctor" because of his "procedures."

But she was still terrified after her first meeting with him somewhere in 2000. After she came to coach Hadden to ask about how to complain to the doctor. The coach, in turn, said that the complaint requires an investigation and a statement that it was Nassar who did the unprofessional and the criminal.

Bedford decided not to do this because she was too ashamed to tell the details.

2004 year

Kylie Stevens, who at the time was 12 years old, told her psychologist at MSU that Nassar, a family friend, had been pestering her since she was six. Stevens said that psychologist Dr. Gary Stollak did not report to law enforcement agencies and officials, but arranged a meeting between parents Stephens and Nassar, where the doctor denied everything.

And this time, the parents believed Dr. Nassar, not his daughter. As a result, her relationship with her mother and father changed forever.

She believes that her father then felt guilty and committed suicide in 2016.

In the same year, Brian Randall, who was 17 years old at the time, went to the city police after meeting with Nassar, where she wrote a statement to him. The police made an appointment with Nassar and her parents, but the doctor was never charged.

“Nassar’s abuse went on for too long because no one listened,” Randall said.

2014 year

After being examined by Dr. Nassaru, Amanda Tomashova contacted Sports Medicine Associate Dr. Jeffrey Cowan and reported the sexual assault. Cowan referred the matter to Christina Moore, the institution's assistant general counsel.

Tomashova met with Moore and the police officer. Documents obtained by NBC News show Nassar admitted penetrating her with his hand but insisted it was medically necessary. Moore also spoke with four professionals - all of whom were on good terms with Nassar - who said they did not believe sexual abuse occurred.

Moore concluded that Nassar’s behavior was disturbing, but it was not sexual abuse.

The police handed over their findings to prosecutors who refused to indict the doctor. The only thing that happened was that there were some restrictions in his practice, although there is no evidence that MSU observed them.

In addition, MSU did not report US gymnasticsthat Nassar was under investigation.

“Michigan State University, a school that I loved and trusted, had the courage to tell me that I did not understand the difference between sexual assault and a medical procedure,” Tomashova said at the hearing.

"The master manipulator took advantage of his position, he insulted me, and when I found the strength to talk about what happened, I was ignored and not heard."

2015 year

The conversation of Maggie Nichols, a member of the US national gymnastics team, with another gymnast about obscene methods of treatment, Nassar accidentally heard her coach. Alarmed, she reported this to officials in US gymnastics - the leading body on sport at the national level.

В US gymnastics admitted that they did not immediately inform the law enforcement agencies.

Instead, they hired a private investigator, but the organization stated that they did not have “reasonable suspicions” that a crime had occurred.

Recall that in 2016, law enforcement officers found on the computer trainer 37 thousands of pornographic materials.

In November, during the trial, he admitted that he sexually harassed seven underage girls. As the victims stated, Nassar did inappropriate actions with them at the time when he examined them for injuries.

In 1996-2015, Nassar worked as a sports doctor at the University of Michigan, where she trained the women's gymnastics team. He was a physiotherapist of the American team at four Olympics, and also worked with young athletes for a long time. The scandal around Nassar caused the resignation of the head of the US Gymnastics Federation, Steve Penny.

Nassar, meanwhile, was sentenced to 60 years of imprisonment on charges of child pornography and from 40 to 175 years for pestering three girls, and is awaiting sentencing next week for three counts of criminal sexual behavior.

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