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Michigan State Spartans (official thread)

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AJHawkfan said:
I can only hope it isn't in protective custody or segregation. Let GenPop handle him.

I didn't follow the case all that closely, but did I see something a week or so ago that he told the judge that he wasn't sure how much more of the girls' testimony he could take?
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Today was only the second time I've looked at any of the trial. I saw a bit of the impact statements a week or so ago.

As I understand it, yes, poor wittle Larry said it was causing him pain to listen to the statements and wondered if he couldn't be excused.

Side note, if anyone runs across the video from today, I recommend finding the part where the judge reads sections of Nassar's letter to her. The background noise of the reaction when she read the "woman scored" line was priceless. Pretty sure I heard a couple people asking if anybody remembered to bring a rope. (j/k, but they might as well have for the tone of astonishment and disgust at the s.o.b.'s screaming gall.)
 
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http://statenews.com/article/2018/01/simon-to-resign

SOURCE: MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon to step down before end of week
Staff Reports
January 24, 2018 7:14 pm

MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon will resign before the week is over, The State News has learned.

According to a knowledgable source to whom we have granted anonymity because the information was told in confidence, Simon's resignation is expected to come in the next few days, namely Friday, potentially sooner.

“I was told (by a board member) that they (MSU Board of Trustees) were going to meet this week and effectively, would have Lou Anna (Simon) step down by Friday," the source said.

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The interim president will not be hired from inside MSU, the source said. The source also said the university is looking for an interim leader who will act as a "healer" for the university...
“They would be fully external and then they would begin a ‘healing process for the university’ in wake of the Nassar situation. What the extent of that looks like, I don’t know. But I’ve heard that phrase used, ‘healer.’” http://statenews.com/article/2018/01/simon-to-resign

Hey folks, I'm available...
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From the resignation letter of Lou Anna K. Simon:

... "To the survivors, I can never say enough that I am so sorry that a trusted, renowned physician was really such an evil, evil person who inflicted such harm under the guise of medical treatment." ...
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Was it really necessary to call him a "trusted, renowned physician" while addressing the victims in a portion of your resignation letter, soon-to-be-former President Simon? Or did you just feel that you had to justify the fact that he was employed for about 13 years under your presidency, and it couldn't have been your fault that he was abusing hundreds of young girls during that time? I found her statement to be very self-serving, but typical of what comes from alleged leaders during times of crisis. Good riddance, Lou Anna K. Simon.

All organizations that are responsible for the care of young people need to be proactive in locating and rooting out sexual abuse. Whether it's the Boy Scouts, religious organizations, athletic departments, schools, or anywhere else where numbers of young people are involved - those are the types of situations that attract sexual predators. These organizations need to continually have professional people that deal with abuse victims monitoring the children, making sure that they are comfortable with the adults who are involved with them, and investigating if the answers or attitudes of the children raise a red flag. Just sitting around and not acting until an alleged victim speaks out isn't enough.

On a side note, it's also interesting to note that Nassar received his undergraduate degree in kinesiology in Ann Arbor, which for a long time was the declared major of numerous TTUN football players.
 
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BB73 said:
From the resignation letter of Lou Anna K. Simon:



Was it really necessary to call him a "trusted, renowned physician" while addressing the victims in a portion of your resignation letter, soon-to-be-former President Simon? Or did you just feel that you had to justify the fact that he was employed for about 13 years under your presidency, and it couldn't have been your fault that he was abusing hundreds of young girls during that time? I found her statement to be very self-serving, but typical of what comes from alleged leaders during times of crisis. Good riddance, Lou Anna K. Simon.

All organizations that are responsible for the care of young people need to be proactive in locating and rooting out sexual abuse. Whether it's the Boy Scouts, religious organizations, athletic departments, schools, or anywhere else where numbers of young people are involved - those are the types of situations that attract sexual predators. These organizations need to continually have professional people that deal with abuse victims monitoring the children, making sure that they are comfortable with the adults who are involved with them, and investigating if the answers or attitudes of the children raise a red flag. Just sitting around and not acting until an alleged victim speaks out isn't enough.

On a side note, it's also interesting to note that Nassar received his undergraduate degree in kinesiology in Ann Arbor, which for a long time was the declared major of numerous TTUN football players.
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Probably advice from her lawyer, as that will be her defense if she is sued for personal responsibility.
 
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Here ya' go...not as good as hearing her read it aloud, but this article has the text of Larry's letter to the judge.

Just a guess, but I'm thinking it was worth at least a few dozen of those 175 years. (And she didn't even read the entire letter in court.)

The federal judge went ballistic at sentencing since I pleaded guilty to the state cases, and spent 10 percent on the federal case, and 90 percent on the state cases and civil suits. She gave me 60 years instead of 5 to 20 years. (3 consecutive 20 year sentences) I pleaded guilty to possession of porn from 9/2004 to 12/2004. Four months. The prosecutor even admitted that I never belonged to any porn site, any chat rooms, was not on the dark web, and also they could not prove I viewed it. It was all deleted, of course. I shared my electronics and I could not prove that, so for four months of porn possession from 2004, I was sentenced to 60 years. Not proper, appropriate, fair.

What I did in the state cases was medical, not sexual. But because of the porn I lost all support. Thus another reason for the state guilty plea.

So I'm trying to avoid a trial to save the stress to this community, my family, the victims. Yet look what is happening. It is wrong.

I was a good doctor, because my treatments worked and those patients that are now speaking out were the same ones that praised and came back over and over. And referred family and friends to see me. The media convinced them that everything I did was wrong and bad. They feel I have broken their trust. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. It is just a complete nightmare. The stories that are being fabricated to sensationalize this. Then the AG would only accept my plea if I said what I did was not medical, and was for my own pleasure. They forced me to say that, or they were going to trial and not accepting the plea. I wanted to plead no contest. But the AG refused that. I was so manipulated by the AG and now Aquilina, and all I wanted was to minimize stress to everyone like I wrote earlier.

In addition with the federal case, my medical treatments with the Olympic/national team gymnastic were discussed as part of the plea. the FBI investigated them in 2015 and found nothing substantial because it was medical. Now they are seeking the media attention and financial reward.
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1) How the fuck did this s.o.b. ever make it through medical school, much less achieve the prominence he did?

2) I am endlessly fascinated by his choice to quote the old "woman scorned" line. Initially, I thought this was wildly inappropriate to the situation, as if he was saying that some seven-year-old child had hit on him, and that he'd rejected her advances, causing a wrathful retaliation.

But then, I looked up the definition of the word "scorned." Turns out, ol' Larry may have had it right after all.

tr.v. scorned, scorn·ing, scorns 1. To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy; a feeling that someone or something is not worthy of any respect.

So, I guess in the sense that he treated all these (mostly) children with contempt, and conveyed to them the impression that their lives and sanity, and the sacredness of their bodies, were not worthy of any respect, yeah...I guess he did scorn them.

Now it's his turn for the hell part of that quotation.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news...-nassars-letter-before-sentencing/1062547001/
 
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I'm thinking Dino's job may be in some trouble here...




Since Dantonio's tenure began in 2007, at least 16 MSU football players have been accused of sexual assault or violence against women, according to interviews and public records obtained by Outside the Lines. Even more, Dantonio was said to be involved in handling the discipline in at least one of the cases several years ago. As recently as June, Dantonio faced a crowd of reporters who were asking questions about four of his football players who had been accused of sexual assault. Six questions in, a reporter asked Dantonio how he had handled such allegations previously.

"This is new ground for us," Dantonio answered. "We've been here 11 years -- it has not happened previously."
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