It’s a different courtroom now, different voices trembling with demands for justice.
But as the toll continues to climb this week, both in sheer numbers and in immeasurable emotional damage — this time in an Eaton County courtroom where dozens more victims of convicted pedophile Larry Nassar are detailing years of sexual abuse at another sentencing hearing — so, too, does the awareness.
That’s what makes this such an important moment. It’s a chance to educate young athletes and their families about the lessons we all should draw from the Nassar case, and the countless others before it that’ve been largely ignored.