Larry worked as a doctor for USA Gymnastics and took advantage of many young athletes. People were kept in silence for many years and there are even many reports of how the company paid the victims to stay quiet for a much longer period of time. He is considered to be a monster and not long after the #MeToo movement many victims came forward to break their long silence and to share the horror they were left with. The news of he being held in prison for 40 to 175 years in prison is of much relief for the victims. Following are the quotes by the victims of his terror, here is what they had said on the days of his sentencing.
1. Jessica Thomashow
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“What you did to me was twisted. You manipulated me and my family. How dare you.”
2. Mattie Larson
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“I was at the height of my career at 19 and the Olympics were just a year away and I just couldn’t take any more of the abuse. I was broken. Larry, my coaches, and USA Gymnastics turned the sport I fell in love with as a kid to my personal living hell.”
3. Jade Capua
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“I am no longer broken by you. Every day I grow a new strength and look into the mirror to see a strong, unbreakable person. Nothing will ever take away what you’ve done to me or to the others that started behind me. However, we can walk free and radiate the strength that we’ve gained from your horrific acts, something you will never be able to do.”
4. Alexis Moore
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“I don’t like the word victim. I am a survivor, but more so I am me. Those 10 years are a part of my story. They have helped define who I am today.”
5. Olivia Cowan
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“If they would have taken action when it was first reported, they would have saved me.”
6. Amanda Thomashow
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7. Madeline Jones
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“Before every appointment, I cried in the bathroom. After every appointment, I couldn’t wait to get home and shower.”
8. Jennifer Hayes
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“You parted my legs and forcefully pushed your dry fingers in my vagina … You had created a secure world where you brainwashed everyone around you.”
9. Bethany Bauman
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“I am 100% confident, that if he had not been caught, he would have continued to do this for the rest of his life.”
10. Nicole Walker
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“I have anxiety and sleep disorders all because of what you did to me.”
11. Danielle Moore
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“I hope being reduced to a (prison) number will define you as it defined me for so many years. I will no longer be known as a number, and I will be Dr. Danielle Moore.”
12. Melissa Imrie
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“Everybody’s story that I listened to today is just an echo of everything that I’ve went through. They’re just speaking like it’s my voice.”
13. Chelsea Williams
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“He manipulated me with such ease, with such finesse. This is perhaps what scares me the most about him.”
14. Jamie Dantzscher
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“There is no therapy, no cure for monsters like you. You are pure evil.”
15. Helena Weick
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“This is not my shame anymore. It’s yours.”
16. Annette Hill
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17. Aly Raisman
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“I will not rest until every last trace of your influence on this sport has been destroyed like the cancer it is.”
18. Taylor Cole
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“This man has broken my world.”
19. Taylor Stevens (read on her behalf)
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“I’m mortified that I didn’t understand exactly what that meant at that time.”
20. Katie Rasmussen
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“No one did anything because no one believed me. They didn’t understand how such a respectable doctor would do something like that. And I don’t understand how a 14-year-old could make that up.”
21. Jordyn Wieber
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“Even though I am a victim, I won’t live my life as one. I am an Olympian.”
22. Jennifer Rood-Bedford
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“The road to healing looks steep from where I am standing now, but I am a warrior.”
23. Gina Nichols (Mother of Olympic hopeful Maggie Nichols)
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“Today is a new day. Today I am claiming my freedom from you. Today I am breaking free from the chains you put me in 20 years ago. Today I am finally free. I am standing here reclaiming the voice that you stole from me. I am reclaiming my confidence. I am reclaiming the power you took from me. I am reclaiming Larissa Michell, that innocent girl you abused. I am no longer that little girl. I am taking her back, I have the control now.”
24. Tiffany Lopez Thomas
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“I imagine hitting you if I ever had the opportunity to see you again. Instead I will allow my thoughts and my feelings to hit your heart.”
25.Jeanette Antolin
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“You made me believe you were my friend. I truly believe you are the spawn of Satan. There’s no therapy that will fix the evil that’s deep inside you.”
26. Kayla Spicher
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27. Gwen Anderson
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“I still remember him saying, ‘It’s OK. I know you’re not used to being touched there, but it will feel better.’”
28. Lindsey Lemke
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“Larry, I hope you … and all others realize you’ve pissed off the wrong army of women.”
29. Kyle Stephens
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“Little girls don’t stay little forever, they grow into strong women that return to destroy your world.”