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Shannon Ryan: Larry Nassar case shows courage of victims, shamefulness of enablers

In waves of courage, woman after woman stood before a judge, their abuser and the nation to detail the torturous sexual abuse inflicted upon them for years by a former U.S. Olympic team physician.

Recounting their horrific stories at Larry Nassar's sentencing hearing that began last week, they found a sliver of long-awaited justice and finally ensured their pain would be ignored no longer.

Nassar, a former osteopathic physician at Michigan State and a former team doctor for USA Gymnastics, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of first-degree criminal

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