FACED COUNTLESS ALLEGATIONS OF MOLESTATION, HAS PLEADED GUILTY
IN COURT.
HE IS ALSO FACING A FEDERAL TRIAL INVOLVING
POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, BUT IN THIS CASE IT HAS TO DO
WITH THE GYMNAST HE VICTIMIZED THROUGHOUT HIS TENURE AS USA
GYMNASTICS DOCTOR --
>>A NUMBER OF WOMEN HAVE COME FORWARD, INCLUDING GABBY
DOUGLAS, THE MOST RECENT ACCUSER, AND I'M FORGETTING HER
NAME RIGHT NOW, I APOLOGIZE, ALI RAISMAN IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE.
IT'S
NICE TO SEE A LITTLE JUSTICE IN THIS CASE.
HE ALSO ISSUED AN
APOLOGY DURING THIS TRIAL THAT I WANT TO SHOW YOU, LET'S
TAKE A LOOK.
>>I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT THAT WHAT I'VE DONE TODAY, TO
HELP MOVE A COMMUNITY FORWARD AND AWAY FROM THE HURTING, LET
THE HEALING START.
THERE'S A COUPLE THINGS I CAN DO TO STOP
THE HURTING, I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT.
FOR ALL THOSE
INVOLVED, I'M SO SORRY.
THIS WAS LIKE A MATCH THAT TURNED INTO A
FOREST FIRE OUT OF CONTROL, AND I PRAY EVERY DAY FOR
FORGIVENESS, I WANT THEM TO HEAL.
I WANT THIS COMMUNITY TO
HEAL, I HAVE NO ANIMOSITY TOWARDS ANYONE, I JUST WANT
HEALING, IT'S TIME.
I GUESS THAT'S THE BIGGEST THING, WE
NEED TO MOVE FORWARD IN A SENSE OF GROWTH AND HEALING, AND I
PRAY THAT.
>>WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVE NO ANIMOSITY TOWARDS ANYONE?
>>NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR ANIMOSITY.
>>THERE WERE 125 VICTIMS, A LOT OF THEM UNDER AGE, A LOT OF THEM
UNDER THE AGE OF 13.
NO ONE CARES WHO YOU HAVE ANIMOSITY
TOWARDS.
AND THE JUDGE, ROSEMARY ACULINA, MADE A GREAT POINT, SHE
SAID IT MIGHT TAKE THEM A LIFETIME OF HEALING WILL
YOU SPEND YOUR LIFE TIME BEHIND BARS TAKING ABOUT WHAT YOU
DID IN TAKING AWAY THEIR CHILDHOOD.
SHE IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, HIS SENTENCING WILL COME LATER
AND IT APPEARS IT WILL BE SIGNIFICANT.
>>ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT THE 125 VICTIMS WHO
REPORTED THESE ASSAULTS TO THE STATE OF MICHIGAN WILL BE ABLE
TO SHARE THEIR IMPACT STATEMENTS IN ORDER TO INFLUENCE THE
JUDGE'S DECISION IN SENTENCING, ALTHOUGH AGAIN THE JUDGE SEEMS
PRETTY CONFIDENT IN GIVING HIM A LONG SENTENCE.
NOW --
>>LUCKILY HE IS IN FOR A WORLD OF HURT IN TERMS OF THE AMOUNT
OF TIME HE'S GOING TO GET IN PRISON.
AND THE DETAILS ARE
GRUESOME, AS USUAL IN THESE CASES -- THESE YOUNG GIRLS, SO
YOUNG, HE UNDRESSES THEM AND FONDLES THEM UNDER THE GUISE OF
BEING THEIR DOCTOR, AND AS ALI RAISMAN POINTED OUT ON TWITTER,
SHE DOESN'T EVEN WANT THE COURT REFERRING TO HIM AS A DOCTOR,
SHE SAYS LARRY IS A MONSTER, NOT A DOCTOR.
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