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Michigan Judge RIPS Into Disgraced Gymnastics Coach Larry Nassar After He Complains About Victims’ Testimony

Emily Zanotti

A Michigan judge verbally eviscerated former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, who is now convicted of at least seven counts of sexual abuse, for daring to suggest she was subjecting him to “cruel and unusual punishment” by forcing him to listen to nearly 100 impact statements given by the women and girls he’d abused over decades as a physician.

In a letter, read aloud in court on Thursday, Nassar complained that Judge Rosemarie Aquilina was using the trial to build her public profile, and subjecting him to a “four-day sentencing media circus” for “her own benefit,” CNN reports.

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