{"id":27506,"date":"2018-01-19T02:29:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T02:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27506"},"modified":"2018-01-19T02:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T02:29:49","slug":"bad-disgraced-doc-victims-need-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27506","title":{"rendered":"Too bad, disgraced doc; victims need to be heard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Larry Nassar said what? It&#8217;s too hard for him to listen to the testimony of young women he abused sexually while he was a practicing physician?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, cry me a river!<\/p>\n<p>Nassar has pleaded guilty to sexual abuse involving young gymnasts he was treating. Several of the victims happen to be members of the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of young women have been testifying at Nassar&#8217;s sentencing hearing. It apparently is too much for the disgraced doctor.<\/p>\n<p>The judge who is presiding over this case, Rosemarie Aquilina, isn&#8217;t cutting him any slack.<\/p>\n<p>The pedophile, who&#8217;s facing a potential life sentence in prison for what he did to those girls, needs to hear all the victims who want to speak.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s too hard on him, well, the former doctor should not for a split second expect a scintilla of sympathy from the court &#8212; or anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>As RealClearPolitics has reported:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNow this is entertaining to me,\u201d County Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina reportedly said as she read the letter. The news outlet said the judge scoffed in particular at this line: \u201cAquilina said if I pass out she\u2019ll have the EMTs revive me and prop me up in the witness box.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI suspect you have watched too much television,\u201d Aquilina said. \u201cIt\u2019s delusional. You need to talk about these issues with a therapist and that\u2019s not me.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Nassar said what? It&#8217;s too hard for him to listen to the testimony of young women he abused sexually while he was a practicing physician? Oh, cry me a river! Nassar has pleaded guilty to sexual abuse involving young gymnasts he was treating. Several of the victims happen to be members of the U.S. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27506\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too bad, disgraced doc; victims need to be heard<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4234,7536],"class_list":["post-27506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-us-olympic-gymnastics-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27507,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27506\/revisions\/27507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}