According to ESPN, at least six women have said they alerted someone on staff at Michigan State about improper behavior from Nassar although none stated Hollis himself was told.
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Former sports doctor Larry Nassar has been sentenced to 175 years in state prison, but he likely won’t serve his time in MI.
A MI judge gave Nassar up to 175 years in prison this week for molesting young women, including Olympic athletes, he was supposed to be treating.
Also on Friday, Michigan State University athletic director Mark Hollis announced that he was retiring. So, at this point, there’s a lot of stuff about the general culture at Michigan State that led to what happened with Nassar, and also the Title IX findings against the University.
Michigan State football coach says he will not resign following an ESPN report that the school mishandled or ignored allegations of sexual assault against members of the team.
At his news conference, Hollis said that his retirement doesn’t change his plan to cooperate with the NCAA’s investigation.
The patient, Amanda Thomashow, received an abbreviated version of the report, which found that Nassar’s conduct wasn’t sexual in nature and therefore didn’t violate the school’s sexual harassment policy. Thursday it read, “Thank You” to the 150 plus survivors who came forward in the Larry Nassar case during this past week and a half.
State Sen. Margaret O’Brien said college coaches should be added to Michigan’s list of mandatory reporters, which includes therapists and medical professionals.
He served as associate athletics director for external relations in 1995 and spent five years on the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee and served as committee chair in 2016-17.
But, this isn’t the only scandalous event that Hollis has had to navigate in his time as Spartans AD. Let’s not forget the winter of 2017, which saw three football players accused of, charged and dismissed from the team for sexual assault and then had another player accused of sexual assault just a few months later.
The Title IX probe conducted by the university cleared Nassar of sexual assault allegations in 2014.
“(Sexual assault involving athletes as the alleged assailant) would be handled in-house.
The trend continued on Friday, January 26, as MSU Athletic Director Mark Hollis stepped down, saying that “there is so much pain and so much healing that needs to be done”.
Schuette said that his office’s review of MSU has been going on for some time.
Heartbreak, devastation and powerful survivor stories filled the Ingham County courtroom over the past week with one key figure not in attendance for most of it: President Lou Anna K. Simon. Fitzgerald said he could not provide Schuette’s office with any investigative report because he said none existed.
Forsyth went on to say they will try and get the investigation done as fast as possible leaving no stone un-turned.
Forsyth said he was “outraged” by the Nassar case and wanted to know why nobody stopped his “predatory conduct” for nearly 20 years.
“First of all I want to thank our students”, said Izzo.
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Dozens of Michigan State University students are gathering at a spot on campus to protest the school’s handling of sexual abuse allegations against its disgraced former sports doctor, Larry Nassar. “I’ve often said that there is one system of justice”.
