Nationwide Reforms Protect Young Athletes in Wake of Nassar Case — But False Allegations Are on the Rise January 2021 marked the beginning of a major shift in how the United States addresses athlete safety, accountability, and institutional abuse—sparked by the staggering revelations of sexual misconduct committed by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. His…
Category: Sexual Abuse
Just in case you happen to have been living under a rock for the last few years – Larry Nassar is in jail for the rest of his life, and doctors are coming under increased scrutiny now that doctor/patient sexual abuse is under the spotlight on a national level. But the ripples from the Nassar…
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’re looking at the issue of how a growing number of highly visible cases of sexual assault by doctors is changing the way people interact with their medical caregivers. As the Nassar case shows, doctors are often treated as ‘untouchable’, which is why it was so hard for…
The Catholic church has come under increasing fire in recent decades for the horrifying number of priests being accused of sexually assaulting children. What makes the allegations worse is that in many cases, it seems other church authorities were aware of the abuses, but made every effort to cover them up instead of reporting them…
Child sexual abuse, also called molestation, is one of the hardest accusations to defend against. Because it’s an emotional subject, and people are conditioned to believe the word of the victim and the cops providing testimony during the trial, it can be extremely difficult to get a fair trial. Anyone who is falsely accused is…
One of the biggest scandals involved in the Larry Nassar case was the fact that so many people knew what was happening – and no one did anything about it. No one listened to the reports. No one reached out to the authorities to tell them what had been alleged. No one confronted Nassar, or…
There has been a great deal of upheaval in the Catholic church in recent decades. The number of priests accused of sexually abusing and molesting children is staggering, and it appears to be continuing to rise. It’s become so bad, in fact, that the pope himself has decided to tackle the issue head on. In…
Right now in Michigan, a child as young as 13 can be prosecuted as an adult, depending on the seriousness of the crime. Crimes like Arson, Armed Robbery, and First Degree Murder sometimes end with minors behind bars for decades, if not life. But what makes this additionally challenging, is the fact that minors who…
At this point, the word “Nassar” has come to mean everything that is wrong with the world these days. From ‘rape culture’ and sexual abuse, to the unchecked power of doctors and the culture of silence on university campuses, ‘Nassar’ is now the catch phrase used to sum up the many social changes that people…
The Nassar case was a wildfire. It tore through the media like an unstoppable tidal wave, made an overnight celebrity out of Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, and set records for how many victims were allowed to give impact statements during the trial. The whole world tuned in to watch. And MSU, the…