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Former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar appears in court for his final sentencing phase in Eaton County Circuit Court on Feb. 5, 2018, in Charlotte, Michigan. (Rena Laverty/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)
Seventy women.
And not women, really. Girls.
That’s how many female athletes the lecher Larry Nassar sexually abused between the time the FBI first learned of the allegations and when he was arrested by Michigan officials on separate information.
Nassar, the former doctor for the USA Gymnastics team, who will spend the rest of his wretched life rotting in prison for abusing hundreds of female patients, including Olympian Simone Biles, was free to defile 70 female athletes while the FBI fell asleep at the wheel.
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