Judge Rosemarie Aquilina reveals Larry Nassar's letter

USA Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar Sentenced On Multiple Sexual Assault Charges
USA Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar Sentenced On Multiple Sexual Assault Charges

In the final day of Larry Nassar's sentencing during which his sexual assault victims read their impact statements and Nassar ultimately would end up being sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison in addition to the 60 years he is already set to serve as a result of child pornography charges, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina revealed more excerpts from a letter Nassar wrote last week.

Aquilina said that the media wanted her to release his letter, but she was not going to do that. However, she did say that there was some information in it that she felt she needed to make public, as she said it troubles her in regard to the survivors.

Some of the letter was previously released last week, such as an excerpt in which Nassar requested not to be present when the rest of the victims gave their impact statements. He claimed he did not believe he would be mentally fit to listen to their words.

Also revealed in the letter last week was that Nassar believed that Aquilina was turning the sentencing into a "media circus" in which the primary goal was for her to gain attention for herself. She called the letter "delusional".

The letter, she stated, influenced her decision to give him such a long sentence, as it showed that he had not yet owned what he had done and had not accepted the fact that he had destroyed the lives of so many individuals.

Aquilina revealed several other troubling parts of the letter today. She revealed that he claimed that what he did to the victims was "medical" and not "sexual" and that because of his child pornography charges, he lost all of his support, which was a reason for his guilty plea.

She also revealed that he said he was a "good doctor" because his treatments worked and his patients praised him, kept coming back to him and even referred family and friends to him. He said that the media convinced them that everything he did was "wrong and bad".

She then revealed that he wrote: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

This proverb, which means a woman who has been rejected by a man can be ferociously angry and vindictive, got a rise out of the crowd almost immediately after being read by Aquilina.

Aquilina went on to reveal that Nassar wrote that the stories of him sexually abusing young women were "being fabricated". He wrote that he felt his plea would only be accepted if he said what he did was not medical but rather for his own pleasure. He also wrote that he was "so manipulated", which caused the crowd to erupt in laughter.

Aquilina proceeded to toss the letter.

Here is a video of Aquilina revealing several other details about what the letter said before sentencing the 54-year-old Nassar on Wednesday.

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