Serials Believed
URL: Believed Website
Type: Podcast
Episodes: 9 episodes
We all think we'd be able to spot a predator like Larry Nassar, the disgraced Olympic gymnastics doctor who sexually abused patients for decades. Of course you would believe a girl or a young woman who came to you looking for help. Right? Believed is a story of survivors finding their power in a cultural moment when people are coming to understand how important that is. It's an inside look at how a team of women - a detective, a prosecutor, and an army of survivors - won justice in one of the largest serial sexual abuse cases in U.S. history. It's also an unnerving exploration of how even well-meaning adults can fail to believe.
In the end, Larry Nassar's survivors were believed. But is that enough?
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The world watches as more than 200 women and girls confront Larry Nassar at his sentencing hearings. "Little girls don't stay little forever," says one survivor. "They grow into strong women that return to destroy your world."
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Even some of Larry Nassar's victims found it hard to believe they themselves were abused. This is the story of a patient who supported him for years, despite the allegations. Hear what it took for her to finally accept the truth.
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The Parents Who Were, Unwillingly And Unknowingly, Witnesses To Their Children's Abuse
URL: Website
Date: Nov 26th, 2018
However many questions you might have for the parents in the Larry Nassar story, these parents have infinitely more.
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For Larry Nassar, the beginning of the end came in 2016, thanks to a tough police detective, a dedicated team of journalists in Indiana, and a homeschooling mom from Kentucky.
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It's time to hear from Larry, and we've got the tape. In 2014, the doctor was interviewed by a police detective after another patient reported him for sexual assault. You'll hear for yourself how Larry lies, manipulates and convinces police to believe him instead of the victim.
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Sometimes the people who don't believe you are the people who love you the most. This episode will take you into Larry Nassar's basement, through the memories of a young girl - a family friend who he abused for years.
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In this episode, we take you back to 2004 - 13 years before Dr. Larry Nassar would admit in court that he sexually abused children. This incident with a teenager will show you not just what Larry was doing to so many of his patients, but how he got away with it again and again.
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How did former Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar sexually abuse hundreds of girls and women for decades? To understand how he got away with it, we have to begin with the doctor in his prime, when everyone thought of him as Larry, the good guy.
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