Gut-wrenching stories from 265 women detailing sexual abuse by former USA Gymnastics Dr. Larry Nassar shouldn’t have been the linchpin for taking down this serial predator. The system failed because the voices of individual victims weren’t enough to get the attention of the elite gymnastics organization, the U.S.
Olympic Committee or Michigan State University, where he practiced.
As long as it was one victim’s word against Nassar’s, the legal benefit of the doubt always went to him because his accusers lacked evidence of the crimes he committed. That’s how he could continue abusing for decades.
http://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-victims-need-a-voice-lack-of-evidence-shouldn-t/article_8f11d6b3-b51e-5f44-b76a-7b3a9c33e673.html
As long as it was one victim’s word against Nassar’s, the legal benefit of the doubt always went to him because his accusers lacked evidence of the crimes he committed. That’s how he could continue abusing for decades.
http://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-victims-need-a-voice-lack-of-evidence-shouldn-t/article_8f11d6b3-b51e-5f44-b76a-7b3a9c33e673.html
