Amanda Nassar Persuasive Speech

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Opinion Column Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine your daughter did gymnastics and she was good at gymnastics. Imagine her doctor who she got treated from was molesting her. Would you believe your daughter if she told you she was getting touched inappropriately by her gymnastics doctor? Your daughter is telling the truth. She has been molested by someone who she trusted, who you trusted as a parent to heal her not hurt her. Larry Nassar has been telling parents for over two decades that your daughter was lying to you to keep him from going to jail. Little girls have been told what happened to them, didn't happen. There was one case that a little girl told her parents that Larry molested her. Her parents confronted Larry because of it. Nassar convinced the …show more content…

There were parents that reported suspicion to John about Larry in the 90’s and John never reported anything to the police, according to a lawsuit in 2017. Nobody did anything about it. In 2014, Amanda Thomashow became a patient of Larry Nassar. She was a cheerleader and had pain in her back that needed to be treated. She was molested by Larry Nassar. Amanda said in court, “Michigan State University, the school I loved and trusted, had the audacity to tell me that I did not understand the difference between sexual assault and a medical procedure” (Thomashow CNN). Rachael Denhollander, a former Olympic gymnast first filed a complaint on Larry Nassar to the Michigan State University police on August 29, 2016. She reported Larry based on her sexual assault that she experienced when she was fifteen years old. She was getting treated for her lower back when she was molested by Larry Nassar. She released a public story to tell the people what he had done to her. The story was released in the Indy Star. Rachael was the first women to come out with her story without being

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