{"id":25586,"date":"2018-01-26T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/26\/how-was-larry-nassar-able-to-abuse-so-many-gymnasts-for-so-long\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T13:47:00","slug":"how-was-larry-nassar-able-to-abuse-so-many-gymnasts-for-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=25586","title":{"rendered":"How was Larry Nassar able to abuse so many gymnasts for so long?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest sexual abuse scandal in sports history shines a light on a culture of medals over moralsLarry Nassar was a wonderful doctor \u2013 everyone said so. The little girls who were sent to him were told it was an honour. Their parents were told it was a sign their daughters were destined for greatness if this doctor \u2013 who treated Olympians! \u2013 would treat their children. USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University employed him for decades and, according to his former patients, when complaints were made about him they were ignored. After all, Larry Nassar was a wonderful doctor, and no one said this more than Nassar himself, who used his reputation to groom his hundreds, possibly even thousands, of victims.\u201cI was a wonderful doctor,\u201d he wrote in a letter while on trial for multiple charges of sexual assault, most against minors. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/jan\/26\/larry-nassar-abuse-gymnasts-scandal-culture\" target=\"_blank\">How was Larry Nassar able to abuse so many gymnasts for so long?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest sexual abuse scandal in sports history shines a light on a culture of medals over moralsLarry Nassar was a wonderful doctor \u2013 everyone said so. The little girls who were sent to him were told it was an honour. Their parents were told it was a sign their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}