It ended where it began, sadly, horrifically, nearly two decades too late. It ended with the first publicly identified victim eviscerating pedophile Larry Nassar in an Ingham County courtroom, delivering with stinging poignancy the last of 156 victim statements.
From a criminal-prosecution standpoint, it ended when Nassar was sentenced to 175 years in prison for sexually assaulting girls and women. But in many ways, it’s just starting for Michigan State, where the awful crimes went unchecked for 20 years.
The first major repercussion came later Wednesday, when school president Lou Anna Simon resigned under immense pressure.