When once-renowned sports physician Larry Nassar was sentenced to prison last month for sexually assaulting well over a hundred girls and young women in his care, many stories compared the case to that of Jerry Sandusky, the disgraced former Penn State University football coach serving a de facto life sentence for abusing boys. That’s not surprising: Sandusky’s name has become synonymous with “serial child molester.” Anyone defending Sandusky’s innocence risks being seen as the same species of crank that argues school shootings are hoaxes.
But veteran journalist Mark Pendergrast takes that risk in a recently published book “The Most Hated Man in America.