John Geddert had one act of cruelty left.
Hours after Michigan’s attorney general announced two dozen charges against the former U.S. Olympic gymnastics coach, including human trafficking and sexual assault, Geddert died by suicide.
The justice that finally seemed within reach Thursday morning for the girls and young women he’d abused is now gone. So, too, whatever answers he could have provided about how sexual predator Larry Nassar was able to operate in plain sight all those years.
“This is a tragic end to a tragic story for everyone involved,” Dana Nessel, Michigan’s attorney general, said in a statement.