It doesn’t directly gets them money. However, if you look the other way at the crimes of the rich and powerful and participate in the same system you, too, may become wildly successful. If you challenge the rich and powerful you risk being crushed and having nothing.
Make your choice.
Was just sentenced to 40-175 years. I don’t think he’ll make it two before a gruesome bear attack.
I still vote for putting the victim statements he couldn’t stand on continuous loop in his cell, then trying to ensure he has a long, long life. I don’t want to see him check out too early and thereby evade punishment.
Plus the 60 years he was previously given for possessing 37,000 pictures of graphic child porn.
The man is a fucking pig. I wish him the worst.
He strikes me as the sort that justifies things in his mind with the belief his victims are enjoying the acts as much as he is. When confronted with proof that is not true the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.
He’ll be fine. Yeah, Dahmer got killed in prison, but he refused to be in a protection unit and went into the general population. Prisons know how to deal with protecting notorious criminals, it’s part of their job.
From the letter he wrote after entering a plea deal:
That just proves you can be technically good at medicine while also being a loathsome human being.
I heard one account account where Nassar assaulted one young girl while her mother was right there in the room. I think it was one of the victim testimonies. How did that happen?
Some people put too much trust in doctors?
That, and visions of Olympic glory are sure to cloud judgement.
I know one of the mothers who experienced this, and described it on Facebook. She said he positioned himself between the table and the mother, and draped a towel over the girl while groping her underneath it. She had no idea what was going on as it was happening. Later she was horrified to realize she could have stopped it as it was happening, had she known, or the daughter spoken up. Her daughter would have been a very young teenager at the time.
Another mother who had been in the room, responding to this, commented that she had been uncomfortable with some of the positions he put her daughter in, but thought, “He’s an Olympic doctor. He must know what he’s doing.”
Rachel Denhollander (the original victim who came forward) gave the final statement, and she alluded to this attitude when she asked the court "What are little girls worth? ".
There’s a short story (probably in Dangerous Visions or Again, Dangerous Visions but I couldn’t swear to that) where this is indeed the punishment for crimes. Pretty cruel (in the cruel and unusual meaning) to my thinking, but it does scratch the itch for revenge.
Was it this letter?
The judge is a piece of work, and I mean that totally as a compliment.
The audience laughing at choice bits really makes the piece a work of art.
I don’t think it’s just this; look how many people (like alumni) who defended (and still defend) Penn State. It’s as if people make up their mind early about a person or institution and just can’t move their opinions off that rail no matter what they hear. And some people are just afraid of rocking the boat.
I’d really like to see some people who protected Nassar go on trial. It seems to me we really need to crack down more on that. I know we can’t prosecute people who look the other way but if details were brought to their attention they should act.
Lastly, I’m a bit disappointed in those around McKayla Maroney who advised her to accept a settlement that prevented her from going public about Nassar. Didn’t this happen a few times with Weinstein as well? How many future assaults would be prevented if we stopped accepting sealed settlements?
I’m surprised she didn’t reach for the hand sanitizer after she tossed it aside.
What floors me about this whole thing is how many people had to know about this and remained silent. They’re all complicit in this. But none of them will ever see the inside of a court over it. :mad: