Did many years ago in some cases. Well take you in the courtroom when nassar is sentenced by the judge. Jean casarez joins us now. Bring us up to speed, this is a momentous day in what has been a sexual abuse epidemic lasting rorter hats right. Were at the moment now the cour has broken but the next step will be the actual sentencing of larry nassar. Olympic doctor here at msu State University for the Athletic Department, womens division. 156 victims of Sexual Assault have stepped up to the podium and that courtroom in the last week and have given their stories of exactly what happened to them of the Sexual Assault at the hands of larry that is sar. We also heard a timeline from these victims that in 1997, one of them went to the gymnastics coach at msu and said, ive been sexually assaulted by larry nassar and she says nothing was done. Another victim said i wasnt born until 1997. It didnt have to happen to me. In 2000, the last victim was sexually assaulted, the first one to come forward to the indy star in 2016. She became public. She had the courage to do so and that is when all of these other women stepped forward to say, me too. I was also assaulted by larry nassar. Hes pleaded guilty to seven counts of aggravated Sexual Misconduct and facing up to life in prison. Brianna . Where are we going next with all of this. Were going to see the sentencing phase, this part to be clear has lasted days. What were supposed to be dozens of victims astronomical number anyways, a lot of people said they had been emboldened and gotten courage from some of the women coming forward publicly and wanted to do the same thing, jean. Reporter thats right. Its continued to grow. Thats why its taken so long. At this point attorneys on both sides are able to argue minimum and maximum sentences based on aggravated and mitigating factors. Larry nassar himself can give an allocution before the court, he can beg for mercy, he can apologize or say nothing. Also the judge is allowing his family to say words to the court if they want to. We were able to ask his attorney this morning if his family or supporters would speak, the answer was we do not know. Were not sure at this point. At that point the judge will give the reason for her sentence. This may take time because she has to take into consideration everything, all of the statements of the victims, the aggravating factors and mitigating factors and then she will pronounce his sentence. There is a plea agreement. In other words, theres a minimum sentence that is already been established a agreed upon by both sides, 25 to 40 years for each count, a maximum can be determined by the judge and that would be life in prison. Jean casarez in lansing, we know youre watching this as we await a key part, a key chapter in it. Thank you so much. I do want to bring in paul callen. This paul, days of these victim impact statements over 160 of them, have you ever seen anything like this . You know, i never have . We started out by talking about it as being an epidemic of sexual abuse. Its more like the black plague of sexual abuse cases because with this number of victims and the tragedy is that so many of them came and made complaints to msu and coaches and police and parents, they were ignored. As a result of that, the abuse went on. We also find in this case that even one victim settled a case and there was a confidentiality agreement in that case preventing other women who had similar complaints from knowing that there were other women who shared their pain and would have given them the courage to come forward. Its just the most tragic case of this kind i think ive ever seen. Lets listen to some of tho victims. I am not weak and will not accept the feelings of embarrassment or shame. Im leaving those here with him. I want you to apologize to me right here. I want to hear you regret all of the hurt youve caused. My hate towards you is uncontrollable. Larry nassar, i hate you. What you have done is despicable. What you have done, you can never erase. I have peace knowing one day you are going to die and when you do your pain will not sub side. There is a range of emotions, theres so much anger, you can see how so many victims were impacted by him. You heard the one survivor, its important to note, thats how these women are identifying themselves, survivors and they are not victims, survivors first, one of them demanding an apology, he is going to have a chance to speak. I wonder what you think is going to happen today paul. Especially considering he had the gall to at one point during the victim impact statements, to tell the judge despite the fact it was part of his plea arrangement to listen to these impact statements, he had the gall to tell the judge that it was upsetting him basically, that it was affecting his mental health. What do you think were going to hear from him . If i were advising him as an attorney, the only thing that most attorneys would say to him is to express sorrow for what you did and probably sit down after that. If he offers any type of excuse or claims hes somehow rehabilitated himself, its only going to anger the judge and make things worse. You have to bear in mind that hes already been sentenced to 60 years in prison by a federal judge on child pornography charges. He has to serve those sentences and state sentences will be consecutive. You can wind up with 150 or 160 years of potential sentencing years involved. It doesnt matter what he says. Best thing he could do is say nothing except im sorry and accept the judgment of the court. He is 54 years old, paul, he could be looking at as many as 125 years in addition to those 60 years in the child Pornography Case that you mentioned that hes been sentenced to. Is your expectation that he is just he will spend the rest of his life in jail . Absolutely. I dont see any possibility he would get out of prison with this numr o vms and crime of this magnitude. As we heard in the victim stements, this is just not the pain that these young women suffered at his hands in the examination room, its haunted them for the rest of their lives, its affected their ability to relate to men and other situations in a normal way. Hes just destroyed the life of so many human beings, its a staggering crime. Including human beings who evictized, who are still involved in usa gymnastics, thats another thing that is startling especially these young women pointing at us gymnastics and saying this was enabled. I want to play something from ali rooizman, the gold medali medalists, one of number of very well known gymnasts who have said larry nassar abused her. Imagine feeling like you have no power and no voice. Well, you know what, larry, i have both power and voice and im only beginning to just use them. All of these brave women have power and well use our voices to make sure you get what you deserve, a life of suffering spent replaying the words delivered by this powerful army of survivors. And thats really what weve seen, an army who have come into i wonder as you consider what the judge referred to the army as, called them quote super heroes and this is significant, told parents they should not blame themselves for not discovering the abuse. As we know, there were a number of times where parents or at least occasionally where parents were present and didnt even know, didnt understand what was going on. The parents have been haunted by the guilt of not seeing what was happening to their children. In some cases the children made comments to the parents that should have triggered a complaint to the police or it was useless to a complaint apparently to msu or even to the sports authorities involved in this case. As to the first point about the ua gis knack ticks association, youre going to see an avalanche of civil lawsuits and litigation arising out of this case. Because so many made legitimate complaints and they were ignored. People should have known that he was out to harm these young women. And people in charge of many of these organizations did nothing when they should have acted. And so many of these survivors have made that point, that Something Like this widespread does not happen without people without a system around someone like larry ssar to enable it. Were going to talk about what may be coming down the road when it comes to the civil lawsuits. 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And jean, so we heard from so many women just really what was a growing chorus here in the last few days. They are awaiting this moment where we may or may not hear from larry nassar himself after he has had to listen to days of descriptions of how he impacted all of his victims. Thats right, we dont know if hes going to speak at all. As the days went on, women kept coming forward because they were watching the streaming and it gave them the confidence. At this point 156 women stepped up to that podium a gave statements. Larry nassar was not only with the Athletic Department at michigan State University and treating gymnasts and other female athletes here but he was the olympic team doctor. He went to the london olympics when the American Team was there and Gold Medalist, bronze medalists they came into this courtroom last week and gave statements that when they went to the london olympics, that he sexually assaulted them, that when they went to the World Championship in tokyo, that once they got there, he was able to sexually assault at least one gymnast in particular. We learned through this hearing that when he would assault them or treat them with these medical treatments, that he was allowed to go into their hotel room, they went to his hotel room and those are the rules they said of the usa gymnastics. Now we know at this point is that the board of directors, three of them stepped down from usa gymnastics and ncaa is launcheding an inquiry, an investigation here at michigan State University and today all 2200 employees faculty here at msu are going to be sent emails asking if there should be a vote of no confidence of the president of msu because she has been with the university for as long as larry nassar, were talking overwo decadesarry nassar was here affiliated with the university and sexually assaulting so many of the young athletes. And we know one of those athletes who said she reported back in 1997, which is just baffling that you realize this was over 20 years ago she reported this in Michigan State and asked the president of the university to come and witness at least her victim impact statement and that did not happen obviously. The president has been watching very closely but she is embattled as this has continued and jean, i do want to play some sound from jordan weaver, the Gold Medalist at the 2012 olympics, she took not only larry nassar to task but people who many victims described as enablers. Larry nassar is accountable. Usa gymnastics is accountable. The u. S. Olympic committee is accountable. My teammates and friends have been through enough and now its time for change because the current and future gymnasts do not deserve to live in anxiety, fear or be unprotected like i was. I also want to bring in paul to our conversation with jean casarez about this. Paul, when you listen to what jordan weaver is saying and so many other victims and you look at the totality of what has happened here, it makes you think of the sandusky child molestation epidemic at penn state. It makes you think of the Catholic ChurchSexual Assault epidemic that we saw. I do want to also point out, were looking at live pictures here of nassar coming into the court in lansing, michigan, in his prison uniform as were going to await the sentencing phase. Paul, you still with me though, right . Yes, i am. I wonder as you listen to jordan weaver there, many of the survivors looking at usa gymnastics, they are looking as well at the usa training facility, the karolyi ranch, that officials are investigating there, a strict no parents policy. This is where simone biles said she had been assaulted. This is where apparently a number of these assaults happened. How far is this going to go when were talking about other lawsuits, civil lawsuits of people who are arguably going to be accused of being kplis it in this . Well, you know, the civil lawsuit situation is very complex because every state where this happened has a different statute of limitations. I was looking at the michigan statute of limitations in effect in the 90s and early part of this century, it was as little as two years after the event it has to be reported or if its a child you have to report it by the time youre 19 in order to bring a lawsuit in michigan. Texas will come into play. They have a different one and as you just mentioned, since some of these olympic contenders were abused allegedly in london and possibly in tokyo, the statute of limitations in those countries will apply and maybe the lawsuits can be brought over there. But theres a great possibility of lawsuits but it could be an uphill battle in many states depending upon where the abuse took place. So we listen to victim impact statements from 156 victims. Some of them delivered by their family members. He is facing nassar, 40 to 125 years in prison in addition to 60 years he has been sentenced in a federal case relating to child pornography. When you look at what the judge rose marie has said where she has said that these victims are super heroes. Do you think this is an indication do you read that an indication of where she is on sentencing . Yes, i think youre looking at a judge whos going to impose the maximum sentence allowable under law and thats going to translate really into a life sentence. Strangely enough and ironically, his federal case was assigned to a female federal judge as well and she sentenced him to 60 years in prison. I think its i think its a good thing that women turned out to be the judges in these cases because tht sort of abuse happened in this case really to women entirely and i think these female jurors had a real understanding of the trauma and tragedy inflicted on these young women. And its so important to give these young women a voice as they have been so courageous here in the last several days to come forward. Lets listen to more of their victim impact statements. You were met to get caught. You were meant to be locked up for the rest of your life. Larry is the most dangerous type of abuser, one who is capable of manipulating his victims through coldly calculated methodologies presenting the most wholesome and caring sperna to deliver a steady stream of Young Children to assault. As i look at you today, i feel nauseous, 20 minutes went by when you stopped and i thought to myself, its finally over. But you werent finished yet. You assaulted me again and again. I want to bring jean casarez back into the conversation with paul callan. Jean, you have been in court for days watching and listening to these impact statements. What is your expectation today . As we do hear from the judge and also we should point out were seeing larry nassar rise it appears that court is underway. Lets listen. It is now in session. Lets listen in. At this time were back on the reco record, counsel, we need to update the presentence investigation report. I spoke with you in chambers and i dont think theres an objection to it but on the cover page of the presentence investigation report, i changed count one two, five, eight, 10 and 18 to 369 days and count 24 to 370 days. Is that right . Thats correct. Also changed that the second page and it also changed some day days on the information sheet. I dont know i didnt look at the evaluation plan but its in there. I would change that as well. Some of the recommendation on page three, we change 361 to 896. 362 days to 370. Are there any other corrections and deletions at this time . Not on behalf of the people. On behalf of the defense counsel, your honor, i have a housekeeping manner. The last individual that do you want me come up there . Probably, yes. The last individual referenced my clients daughter by name. Im going to ask the court seal that page of the transcript. I spoke with the Attorney Generals Office about that and i dont think they have a problem with doing that we have no objection. Okay, again, as to any of these little blips weve had, not a surprise over so many pages of testimony and several days. I dont think theres rule to strike it officially from it, the transcript but we will see that page