For decades, internationally respected sports medicine physician Larry Nassar sexually abused at least 150 girls and young women under the guise of providing medical treatment for their sports injuries. He exploited the trust children are taught to place, unquestioningly, in doctors, “treating” them as a physician at Michigan State University, at a private gymnastics gym, as the USA Gymnastics Team doctor, and in his own office and home, among other places. In many cases he abused them while their parents were in the exam room. He was sentenced on Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, who presided over the trial, denied his requests to be spared multiple days of testimony, giving the women he abused the opportunity to address him directly. What follows are 29 of the most poignant, heartbreaking, and uplifting images and statements from their testimony.

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