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The book detailed the author's personal experience of sexual abuse at the hands of Larry Nassar and the challenges faced when trying to report it. It also highlighted the systemic issues that allowed Nassar's abuse to continue for so long.
Normally you don't make these lists just for accusing someone of sexual assault but that's not exactly what happened here.
— Episode: 332: Rachael Denhollander | What Is a Gi...
Episode: 332: Rachael Denhollander | What Is a Girl Worth?
The book detailed the author's personal experience of sexual abuse at the hands of Larry Nassar and the challenges faced when trying to report it. It also highlighted the systemic issues that allowed Nassar's abuse to continue for so long.
Normally you don't make these lists just for accusing someone of sexual assault but that's not exactly what happened here.
As you'll hear today, Larry Nasser abused hundreds of women, mostly underage children.
He was the best of the best. He was our Olympic team doctor, he had written the book literally on conditioning, he had patents for ankle braces and he was internationally known, allegedly, as one of the best sports medicine doctors out there.
He appeared very caring and most abusers do, the very skilled manipulators, so he would ask questions about my homework, about my siblings' homework and just kind of what was going on in our daily life and he would just make small talk acting as if he cared.
He would wield the trust that we had in our parents because I did not realize my mom couldn't see, you know, so people asked me all the time why didn't you tell your mom? I didn't know I needed to tell my mom. She was sitting right there.
Episode: 332: Rachael Denhollander | What Is a Girl Worth?
It discussed how Larry Nassar was able to manipulate the trust of parents, while simultaneously abusing their children, using misdirection techniques under the guise of medical treatment.
Her book is called What Is a Girl Worth? My story of breaking the silence and exposing the truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics.
I think one of the things that we see just glaring on display is the mindset of an abuser when Larry starts talking for himself you have that you have the letter he wrote to judge aqua lena where he's complaining about everything that's taking place and he's placing all of the blame on those of us who have spoken up and on the judge for allowing this quote unquote media circus conveniently forgetting that in the preliminary hearings were those of us who are charged victims had to testify under oath.
Larry had abused so many girls that he didn't remember me when I came forward and I don't get to be forgotten.
I have sex with my husband and my pinched nerve in my back is still there when I'm done.
I think that's the tip of the iceberg hundreds of people have had their lives altered by this and this is one abuser.
Episode: 332: Rachael Denhollander | What Is a Girl Worth?
It was discussed in detail how the book was written to give people a greater understanding of Larry Nassar's abuse, in particular, how he used manipulative tactics and trust to abuse underage gymnasts. It was described as difficult to write but important to help others understand the situation.
Now, normally you don't make these lists just for accusing someone of sexual assault but that's not exactly what happened here. As you'll hear today, Larry Nasser abused hundreds of women, mostly underage children.
her book is called what is a girl worth my story of breaking the silence and exposing the truth about Larry Nasser and USA gymnastics could not have been an easy book to write that's for sure
I did go into a lot more explanation in my book for that reason to help people understand what this looks like because one of the things that I've realized as I started researching over the years is that actually the problem of sexual abuse in the medical industry in general is extreme
you mentioned in the book that he never stopped talking which yeah maybe he's nervous maybe there's a little bit of that but it almost sounds like maybe I'm projecting something onto him that isn't there but it sounds like misdirection like if I keep talking they'll be focused on that
in the book you'd said I couldn't even convince a policeman that I knew that this had happened