The Price I Paid for Taking On Larry Nassar
- 6 years ago
The Price I Paid for Taking On Larry Nassar
In many ways, the sexual assault scandal that was 30 years in the making was only a symptom of a
much deeper cultural problem — the unwillingness to speak the truth against one’s own community
But on Aug. 29, 2016, when I filed the first police complaint against Larry Nassar for sexually abusing me when I was a 15-year-old girl
and chose to release a very public story detailing what he had done, it felt like a shot in the dark.
But we shared one core, unifying experience: sexual assault at the hands of Larry Nassar.
In many ways, the sexual assault scandal that was 30 years in the making was only a symptom of a
much deeper cultural problem — the unwillingness to speak the truth against one’s own community
But on Aug. 29, 2016, when I filed the first police complaint against Larry Nassar for sexually abusing me when I was a 15-year-old girl
and chose to release a very public story detailing what he had done, it felt like a shot in the dark.
But we shared one core, unifying experience: sexual assault at the hands of Larry Nassar.