<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Harsh Judgment, Shutdown Blame, Plastic Pollution
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Gymnasts’ Justice: Larry Nassar has been sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexually abusing over 150 women in his capacity as an athletic doctor at Michigan State University and for the USA Gymnastics team. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, who presided in the case, has drawn criticism for her unusually harsh sentencing statement, in which she expressed that she might “allow someone … to do to him what he did to others” if such punishment was not cruel and unusual. But she’s drawn praise for her choice to allow all 156 of Nassar’s accusers to speak about how his crimes affected them—a powerful counter to a court system and media climate in which victims of sexual abuse have been all too often
