ESPN.com · Jan 16, 2018
Sentencing hearing begins for admitted sexual predator Larry Nassar
LANSING, Mich. -- Larry Nassar leaned his forehead against his folded hands covering his eyes, unable to look at the woman speaking in front of him in a Michigan courtroom Tuesday morning. He was less than an hour into a four-day sentencing hearing for criminal sexual conduct.
The woman in front of him was Donna Markham. She was speaking to the court and to the disgraced former doctor and admitted serial sexual predator on behalf of her daughter, who she said "could not join us today." Chelsea Markham died by suicide as a 23-year-old in 2009.
"It all started with him," Markham told the court. "It all started with him."