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Opinion: Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal rocked world beyond gymnastics in decade's darkest moment

USA TODAY

Most of us first heard Larry Nassar’s name well into the decade, when one courageous young woman, then another, then several more, came forward to say that their trusted team doctor had sexually abused them.

The stories came from the famous and the unknown, Olympic gold medalists and those whose careers ended in high school. With steely clarity in the midst of withering personal agony, the women, most still quite young, painted a terrifying picture of the decade’s darkest moment by simply telling the truth about what Nassar did to them.