Audible gasps in the courtroom as Judge Aquilina reads a letter from #Nassar in which he says, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” and accusers are "seeking media attention & financial reward." pic.twitter.com/5mn7Ts1jGJ
— Carol Costello (@CarolHLN) January 24, 2018
This piece of shit was just sentenced to die in prison for molesting at least 156 girls, and probably many more. He got 40-175 years, on top of a 60 year child porn sentence.
You just can’t molest that many kids over that period of time without the assistance of enablers and the blindness of the administration. Here’s one enabler, MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson:
Meanwhile, Ferguson insists the scandal won’t tarnish Simon’s legacy as university president, that it’s “wrong” to even talk about the possibility of Simon retiring, and is confident that the attorney-general investigation into MSU will find its “senior people are not complicit in what this pervert did.”
“I mean, when you go to the basketball game, you walk into the new Breslin, and the person who hustled and got all those major donors to give money was Lou Anna Simon,” Ferguson said. “There’s just so many things that make up being president at a university that keeps everything moving and everything right with the deans, everything at a school where we have a waiting list of students who want to come.”
On the one hand, MSU harbored a child molester for almost 20 years. On the other, they have a great stadium. The scales of justice are clearly balanced.
Update: In the comments, LAO linked to this Charlie Pierce piece in SI, which is worth reading just for Aly Raisman’s comments.