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this is "nightline". >> tonight courtroom confrontation. one by one, dozens of women, current and former gymnasts facing the doctor they say abused him. >> i felt so pourlewerless to control what happened. >> little girls grow into strong women that are mcdermottdetermi destroy your world. >> some kpclaimant claim the doctor is not the only one at fault. >> they knew and did nothing about it. plus how the movement that started in charlottesville started in the internet, chat
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former gymnasts confronting the man sexually abused them. the youngest of victims are now empowered and speaking out. >> i testified to let the world know you are a repulsive liar and those treatments were pathetically valed sexual abuse. >> how dare you what kind of person has audacity to sexually assault a child in their >> angered and full of regret. >> i fhe life has been sucked out of me. >> dozens speaking out about trusted. usen adult they >> i experience flash back nightmares of the abuse. >> this courtroom is the latest example of women speaking up forcefully against men who have beensive this time a four
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day sentence hearing. >> larry nassar did to make me feel comfortable second i met him but turned out to be a monster. confronted by victims for stic second day in court. >> i remember laying frozen stiff on the table utterly ied, powerless to control what was happening. >> almost all victims were young girls sentoffice. >> without my knowledge or consent i experienced my first sexual encounter by kindergarten. >> you upsed my body for six years for your own sexual gratification. >> their stories all too familiar. more than 150 women accused nassar of sexual abuse among them some of the biggest name of
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usa gymnastic, members of the fierce five, most recently simone b iles writing this -- alley said she too was abused by the espn doctor. >> it's not anything we are happy or want to share, it's not something we want to think about but usa gymnastics is ignoring us. >> celebrities like chrissy teigen and bell said they would pay any fine show spoke out to break nondisclosure agreement. perfect speaki
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in november 54-year-old nassar pleaded guilty to 7 counts of first degree criminal sexual assault an ten girls three under the age of 13. >> for those involved i'm so horribly sorry this was like a match that turned into a forest fire out of control and i pray the rosery every day for forgiveness for their -- i want them to heal. >> prosecutors are seeking a sentence of 125 years. >> it's breath taking, very upsetting that he has had access to so many women, girls in so many different venues. very upsetting. >> john manling represents more than 100 of the accusers says nassar had a different face to his patients. >> what nassar did was he came in with a sunny personality, i'm a nice man, you can trust me, and they trusted him and he used
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that trust to disguise sexual harassment as medical treatment. >> he was someone we trusted, our friend neighbor and doctor and someone who ultimately abused her on a daily basis for many, many years, starting around the age of 10. >> as part of nassar's plea deal the judge is allowing any of his accusers to confront him in court. more than 100 victims are expected to do just that. >> i am no longer a child and further i've never been more disgusted or disappointed by any human being. >> one mother spoke on behalf of her daughter who took her own life. >> i said i was right in the room she goes you couldn't see what was going on mom. she said he hurt me. >> then there was 17-year-old stephanie robinson. so young she needed permission from her father to testify. today he was right by her side. >> i am disgusted by your actions. may you never hurt or abuse another person again.
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>> the father of three was arrested in 2016 after this woman rachael came forward. >> it was just after my 15th birthday i saw him for approximately a year he abused me between 10 and 13 times penetrated me vaginally and anally. within ours we had from women calling the tip line set up and by the end of the day 12 other survivors came forward and have over 160 now. >> dan hollander is going to testify on friday. testifying is not easy says this former gymnast. >> you deceived me, manipulated me and abused me. >> that's how i was going to start to heal to stair this than the face let him know i got my power back. >> she first came in contact with nassar in 1997 when she was member of the u.s. national team. >> you used your hotel room as a
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personal playground to treat us, you used my innocent body as your sexual play toy. >> the limb girls he molested are gone. >> yet she says the wrongdoing extends much further than nassar. >> i know for a fact this abuse had been reported and just people turned a blind eye to it. the only way i will feel okay the entire board of usa gymnastics gone because all those people knew and did nothing about it. >> team usa has to protect athletes releasing this statement that says in part -- several gymnasts and their families claim that usa gymnastics wasomplicit in
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turning a blind eye to nassar's abuse, the organization has not commented on those accusations. thomas brennon accompanied anderson as she spoke in court. >> our coaches were pliek our family and couldn't protect us from him. >> brenn an then spoke directly to the man he says was a mentor for years running clinics together. >> for the record, go to hell. >> wasn't just gymnasts speaking out against nassar he also treated athletes at michigan state university for nearly 20 years. today many were stunned with university president offered her support in person. >> the focus of attention should be on the people who are telling the story and not on me or michigan state. i think there's steps being made towards accountability and other steps will follow. >> nassar has already been sentenced to 60 years on three federal child pornography charges and now the county court judge is expected to announce nassar's additional sent evaenc
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friday after all victims have been heard. >> he will never be free. the next judge he faces will be god. >> perhaps you figured it out but little girls don't stay little forever. they grow into strong women that return to destroy your world. >> we've never seen anything like this, this many women come forward, able to put their names and faces to it, to take back their voice and put the guilt and blame where it belongs. >> for "nightline",i'm lindsey davis in new york. up next, did lonely men bonding online over sexual frustration help launch the dangerous political movement? you're a life of unpredictable symptoms. crohn's, you've tried to own us. but now it's our turn to take control with stelara® stelara® works differently for adults with moderately to severely active crohn's disease.
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♪ for many of us it appears the so-called alt-right sprung up from out of nowhere last summer, but according to new documentary the politicalvement obscure messa boards for the sexually starved. >> you might think you know the full starry of the litso-called alt new documentary says the surprising root of the movement, sexual frustration. >> one of the things people talked about after charlottesville, you would solve the problem
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these guys had girlfriends. >> definitely a factor. >> she said is it was communities of single men struggling to find a date. her documentary is called trumpland kill all normies. >> so who are normies? >> normies is a term to refer to essentially main stream people. >> found many of those outside the norm found kinship with groups of so-called pick up artists and in cells. >> what are in cells. >> they are involuntarily c eli bu t. about expressing your frustration. >> the documentary talked about men who acted on their frustration including a man who went on a rampage at uc santa
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barbara in 2016 that left six people dead. >> i've been forced endure a existence of lonelineslonelines reejection and unfulfilled desires all because girls have never been attracted to me. >> he says many of these young men came to believe feminism was the central problem, saying this online movement found its perfect foil in what it saw as the excesses of political correctness on college campuses. >> they came into contact with these ultra pc, highly sensitive cultures online which actually allowed them to be quite funny, you know, and to kind of poke phone at the earnestness of these kind of ultra sensitive language policing online cultures. >> giving way to so called safe spaces and hierarchy of
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perceived injustice. >> it's definitely got to a point where privilege is being treated as gambling chips. if i am black and a woman i have less privilege than a white man and therefore cannot only be authoritative toward them but a black gay woman comes suddenly i see the floor entirely to her. a black gay disabled woman comes that's the person who has the most credibility. >> we got a sense of what critics of the left find so objectionable to a recent visit to university of utah. >> ben shapiro conservative podcaster showed up on campus there were protests against him and one person vowed to shut the event down i said. >> that doesn't conform with the first amendment. >> i don't care. >> why not.
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>> i don't think that's a relevant document right now. >> this is a very hard line anti-free it speech campus culture was revealed as terrifying to people who were in the central politically and found themselves sharing alt-right means. >> according to the documentary young men are faced with two dramatically different internet. >> one internet says you're congenitally racist. you have already apartmented in the culture by consuming the dominant media. you've offended someone ten times by speaking in a common language that you would use with any person on the street. and then you have this other internet that is full of rebelloius kind of comedy. you are in fact encouraged to indulge maybe some of your most
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forebidden interests and which internet are you going to choose. >> while the alt-right gained fuel from perceived enemies on the left also received enormous energy from then-candidate donald trump. >> the american dream is dead. i will bring it back. >> younger people for whom the right was always very unfashionable, i think for them, they kind of turned with trump, they kind of turned the right into something that could be seen andir refrnt. >> donald trump is an expert at trafficking outrage. >> you're going to have more world trade centers. going to be worse and worse folks. we can be politically correct or stupid but it's going to get worse and worse.
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>> there's an attitude that's attractive especially you're online that you are involved in this cause that will over throw the government. >> this anarchy online became all too real in many people's minds in the summer in charlottesville. >> in charlottesville we were experiencing a physical movement. >> a white nationalallist thing tank led by richard spnser. >> it came down to either your vision never happening or having to have that violent confrontation. >> the existence of my people is not negotiable. >> what they don't want to go along with your movement. >> we'll force them to be free. >> through force or not spencer'sspencer
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alt-right has eye set on moving far beyond party lines. >> i think they are quite strategically clever and they know that they can potentially drive a wedge where there is already a bit of tensio on the left. >> howo we move as a country? she says the solution lies not on the extremes but instead with the rest of us, the so called normies, finding a way to live together. for "nightline" this is dan harris in new york city. documentary "trumpland kil normies" friday the 26th at 9:00 p.m. next reaction at this puerto rico school when the power comes back. >> announcer: abc news "nigy --
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