>>> NO MATTER WHAT LARRY WAS
SUPPOSED TO BE TREATING ON ME
OVER THE YEARS, USUALLY MY
ANKLES OR MY KNEES, HIS FINGERS
ALWAYS SEEMED TO FIND THEIR WAY
INSIDE OF ME.
YOUR KINDNESS WAS SIMPLY A PLOY
TO MOLEST ME EVERY CHANCE YOU
GOT.
>> WE'RE SPEAKING WITH THREE OF
THE 156 WOMEN WHO CAME FORWARD
TO SHARE THEIR PERSONAL STORIES
OF ABUSE BY SOMEONE WHO THEY
WERE TOLD THEY COULD TRUST.
TEAM USA JIM GYMNASTICS DOCTOR,
LARRY NASSAR.
MATTY, YOUR REACTION TO NASSAR
IN COURT AND HIS OWN VICTIM
ROUTINE OF, WELL, IT WAS ALL
MEDICAL AND HELL HATH NO FURY
LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED, WHEN YOU
WATCHED THAT AND HEARD THAT,
WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION?
>> I WAS ANGRY, BUT
UNFORTUNATELY I WAS NOT
SURPRISED WHATSOEVER.
HE -- AT THE COURTHOUSE, HE WAS
STILL TRYING TO MANIPULATE US
LIKE WE WERE STILL HIS VICTIMS.
TURNING AROUND AND LOOKING AT US
AND SAYING HIS FAKE APOLOGY.
AND YOU COULD JUST SEE, HE HAS
NO REMORSE FOR WHAT HE DID.
HE'S JUST --
>> HE'S SORRY FOR HIMSELF.
>> HE'S A SAD, SAD, SAD HUMAN
BEING.
>> LET'S TALK ABOUT THE
ENABLERS.
THERE'S A LONG LIST FROM USA
GYMNASTICS TO MSU AND BEYOND.
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS WOMAN,
KATHY KLAGIS.
>> SHE WAS THE HEAD GYMNASTICS
COACH AT MSU.
SHE WAS ALSO THE FIRST ONE TO
RECEIVE THE FIRST KNOWN REPORT
OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
THERE WAS A GYMNAST WHO SPOKE UP
WHO WAS 16 YEARS OLD.
SHE CAME AND TOLD HER IN GRAPHIC
DETAIL.
SHE SAID HE WAS FINGERING HER
LIKE A BOYFRIEND.
HER RESPONSE WAS THAT'S NOT
POSSIBLE, YOU MUST BE MISTAKEN.
THEN SHE PROCEEDED TO PARADE IN
ALL THE REST OF HER TEAMMATES IN
FRONT OF HER TO HUMILIATE HER
AND ASK IF ANYONE ELSE FELT THE
SAME WAY.
A 14-YEAR-OLD SPOKE UP WHO HAS
TESTIFIED IN COURT BUT CHOSEN TO
REMAIN ANONYMOUS AND SHE
CONFIRMED LARISSA'S ACCOUNT AND
SAID HE'S DOING THE SAME THING
TO ME AND SHE REFUSED TO BELIEVE
THEM.
SHE SENT ALL OF THE GYMNASTS OUT
OF THE ROOM EXCEPT LARISSA,
PICKED UP A REPORT FORM AND SAID
I COULD SIGN THIS, BUT THERE
WILL BE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR
YOU AND LARRY IF YOU FILE THIS.
AND SO LARISSA BACKED DOWN.
KATHY THEN CALLED LARRY TO TELL
HIM WHAT LARISSA HAD SAID AND
SENT LARISSA BACK FOR CONTINUED
TREATMENT.
SHE CONTINUED TO BE SUBJECTED TO
MORE SEXUAL ABUSE.
ALMOST EVERY KNOWN VICTIM OF
LARRY NASSAR CAME AFTER THAT
REPORT IN 1997.
BUT THE COLLEGE RECEIVED
ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF ABUSE IN
THREE DIFFERENT ATHLETIC
DEPARTMENTS DURING 1998, '99 AND
2000.
THERE ARE ALSO AT LEAST THREE
PSYCHIATRISTS THAT RECEIVED
REPORTS OF ABUSE, ONE OF THEM
BEING KYLE STEPHENS' REPORT AND
REPORTS FROM TWO OTHER ROWERS.
NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM
REPORTED, NOT ONE.
>> NOT ONE REPORTED THE CRIME,
THE ALLEGED CRIME AT THAT POINT.
>> NOT ONE.
>> WHAT ACCOUNTABILITY -- LET'S
START WITH MSU.
NOW THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT IS
STEPPING DOWN WITH A STATEMENT
THAT DOESN'T TAKE FULL
RESPONSIBILITY.
SHE BASICALLY SAYS, YOU KNOW, IN
ANY SORT OF SITUATION LIKE THIS,
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HOLD
SOMEBODY LIKE ME ACCOUNTABLE, SO
OH WELL.
HERE'S THE STATEMENT.
THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF HAS
BEEN VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE
VICTIMS OF LARRY NASSAR, FOR THE
UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY AND FOR ME
PERSONALLY.
TO THE SURVIVORS I CAN NEVER SAY
ENOUGH AND I AM SO SORRY THAT A
TRUSTED, RENOWNED PHYSICIAN --
HERE IT IS.
AS TRAGEDIES ARE POLITICIZED,
BLAME IS INEVITABLE.
AS PRESIDENT IT'S ONLY NATURAL
THAT I AM THE FOCUS OF THIS
ANGER.
DOES THAT SOUND LIKE TAKING
ACCOUNTABILITY TO YOU?
>> NOT AT ALL.
>> BUT AS APPALLING AS THAT
STATEMENT IS, THE BOARD OF TRUST
TRUSTEES HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY
WORSE.
THE VICE CHAIR CAME OUT SHORTLY
AFTER I CAME FORWARD AND CALLED
US AMBULANCE CHASERS WHO WERE
LOOKING FOR A PAYDAY.
HE RECENTLY SAID NO LEADERSHIP
AT MSU SHOULD HAVE TO RESIGN
BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE TOO MUCH
COLLATERAL DAMAGE.
>> WHO SAID THAT?
>> VICE CHAIR FERGUSON ON THE
MSU BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
HE THEN SAID WE NEED TO REMEMBER
THERE'S MORE GOING ON THAN JUST
THIS NASSAR THING AND WE NEED TO
LOOK AT THE FULL SCOPE OF MSU
BECAUSE SIMON DID A REALLY GOOD
JOB RAISING FUNDS FOR THEIR
BASKETBALL STADIUM.
>> WHAT HAPPENED TO KATHY
KLAJES.
>> SHE WAS ALLOWED TO RETIRE
WITH FULL PENSION AND MSU HAS
REPEATEDLY REFUSED TO
ACKNOWLEDGE THE WAY THAT SHE
HANDLED THAT REPORT OF ABUSE WAS
INAPPROPRIATE AND THAT THERE
WERE DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES
BECAUSE OF IT.
>> AND THEN THERE'S THE QUESTION
OF USA GYMNASTICS.
USA GYMNASTICS, WHICH IS AN
ORGANIZATION TO WHICH SO MANY
PARENTS ENTRUSTED THEIR
EXTREMELY TALENTED, HOPEFUL,
ASPIRATIONAL YOUNG GIRLS,
THINKING THAT THEY WOULD BE WELL
LOOKED AFTER.
I WANT TO GET TO THEM, BUT HAVE
THEY CONTACTED ANY OF YOU?
>> THEY HAVE NOT.
>> NO.
>> NO.
>> NOT AFTER YOU CAME FORWARD
WITH YOUR STORY, YOUR
TESTIMONIALS?
>> NO.
IN FACT THE ENTIRE REASON THIS
STORY CAME OUT IS BECAUSE THERE
WERE SEVERAL OTHER ATHLETES WHO
BLEW THE WHISTLE ON THE FAILURE
TO REPORT SEXUAL ABUSE IN
GENERAL WITHIN USAG.
THEY HAD A POLICY OF NOT
REPORTING ABUSE.
THEY HAD BURIED THE FILES ON 54
MEMBER COACHES IN A TEN-YEAR
PERIOD ALLOWING THESE COACHES TO
HOP FROM GYM TO GYM.
DIRECTOR PENNY DEFENDED THIS
POLICY UNDER OATH SAYING THEY
HAD TO HAVE THIS POLICY TO,
QUOTE UNQUOTE, AVOID A WITCH
HUNT.
NONE OF THOSE GYMNASTS THAT WERE
ABUSED BY COACHES THAT WERE
ALLOWED TO HOP FROM GYM TO GYM
WERE EV--
>> I AM PROFOUNDLY SADDENED THAT
A SINGLE ATHLETE WAS HURT.
I WILL NOT WAIVER ON MY COMMIT
NOENT FOCUS EACH AND EVERY DAY
ON OUR ORGANIZATION'S HIGHEST
PRIORITY, THE SAFETY, HEALTH AND
WELL-BEING OF OUR ATHLETES.
WE WILL CREATE A POWER THAT
SUPPORTS THEM AND IT IS MY HOPE
THAT EVERYTHING WE DO GOING
FORWARD MAKES THIS VERY CLEAR.
THANK YOU ALL.
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