Schuette: It’s Nassar victims’ time to heal

The following is a statement on the request from the MSU Board of Trustees as well as a response to “Time’s up for MSU’s Lou Anna Simon,” Jan. 19:

A full and complete review, report and recommendation of what occurred at Michigan State University is required and I will provide that. However, this week and the coming weeks are time for the survivors of Larry Nassar to have their day in court, and I refuse to upstage their time for healing.

My focus up to this point has been the following:

1. Prosecuting Larry Nassar, which resulted in his conviction of 10 felony counts of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree;

2. Seeking a sentence that will ensure Nassar will remain behind bars for the rest of his life where he can never harm another woman or young girl in her tender years;

3. Ensuring that victim impact statements from all survivors be allowed, sentencing so that the enormity of his crimes would be known;

4. Asking for a full report from Michigan State University, which I was told didn’t exist.

The Detroit News in an editorial Friday called me wrong and indifferent, nothing could be further from the truth, and they should issue a retraction.

Bill Schuette

Attorney General