Michigan State University president resigns after Nassar sentencing

In a statement, the NCAA said it’s looking into whether the university violated any rules. Regardless of whether MSU takes this step, I will work to initiate and support the necessary investigation and oversight in the United States Senate.

As if any more proof were needed, Nassar showed his absence of any shame when he complained about how hard it was for him to listen to the statements.

Bishop highlighted figures from a Washington Post investigation that, since 1982, more than 290 coaches and officials affiliated with the U.S. Olympic sports organizations have been accused of sexual misconduct.

Michigan State University reportedly delayed sending documents outlining sexual assault allegations against Larry Nassar during a Title IX investigation.

Simon may be on her way out as president of Michigan State University, but students are just beginning to have their voices heard.

Santavicca added that Michigan State has many issues to address as they move on from the Nassar scandal.

“While much attention is understandably focused on Mr. Nassar and his crimes, we must also examine the larger system that allowed these acts to happen and so greatly failed these young women”, Maloney wrote in a letter to committee leadership. He said that at a meeting of the board last week, only “10 minutes” was spent discussing Nassar.

Throughout Nassar’s seven-day sentencing, Simon and the board of trustees seemed to make misstep after misstep.

On Tuesday, Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for abusing young girls and women under the guise of medical treatment for almost two decades.

The MSU board of trustees met Wednesday to discuss ongoing litigation in civil suits related to the Nassar case that list the university as a co-defendant.

Statutes of limitations often are the biggest impediment to lawsuits over sexual abuse from many years ago. Some of the gymnasts affected by Nassar’s abuse claim that they had reported his conduct to Michigan State University as early as the late 1990s. She’s known Nassar since 1988.

Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr., a Democrat from East Lansing, where the campus is located, called it “an important step in moving the university forward”. It ended with Aquilina sentencing Nassar to between 40 and 175 more years in prison. He preyed on girls and women who trusted that he had their best interests at heart when they came to him for medical treatment but who were abused instead. Everyone I know who went there loved it.

At Michigan State, Nassar was not reassigned from clinical duties until August 2016, after the Star article, and he was sacked later that year. Simon has been president since 2005.

The lawsuits seeking unspecified monetary damages from USA Gymnastics, which used Nassar as team doctor for years, and Michigan State, where he worked as a professor, were filed in January 2017 in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and were later consolidated into a single case.

She says that she had planned to retire in 2016, but stayed while the legal proceedings against Nassar unfolded.

USA Gymnastics and Michigan State did not respond to requests for comment on whether they would resume settlement talks.

Elsewhere, in Texas, the Walker County sheriff’s office said it is investigating the Karolyi Ranch, which was a training site for Olympic gymnasts. To many, he was seen as the only hope of getting their bodies healthy and back into competition, which dozens of women and girls said he used to manipulate and take advantage of them. Many said they tried to tell their parents, their coaches and trainers, other MSU doctors and even police, but were disbelieved, shamed, brushed off or bullied into silence.

Statements from more than 140 women were heard as more women each day made a decision to step forward, emboldened by the strength of those – both famous and not – who had already spoken out. They run during breaks in nationally televised games and promote the competing schools.