In The Girls, out today, former gymnast Sara Teristi says that in 1991 she was the victim of perhaps Nassar's worst crime.
Larry Nassar's crimes may be even more heinous than previously known. In her new book, The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down, out today, Abigail Pesta tells the story of the USA Gymnastics doctor's likely first victim. Sara Teristi was just 14 years old when she first encountered Nassar at Great Lakes Gymnastics in Lansing, Michigan, in 1988.
Nassar has been convicted of seven counts of criminal sexual conduct and will spend the rest of his life behind bars. According to Pesta, many of the victims she interviewed for the book told her that Nassar"penetrated them vaginally or anally with his bare hands, while pretending to treat them." But Teristi's revelations show that the abuse went much further than people realize, hers being the second accusation of rape against Nassar.
Pesta weaves Teristi's truths throughout the book, showing how, as his likely first victim, Nassar used Teristi to test how he could prey on young patients, learning how far he could go before they would object. It's part of the reason why Pesta endeavored to write the book. Interviewing his victims"provided profound insight into his evolution, and his enablers," Pesta says.
Pesta first met Teristi in the spring of 2018. After being connected by Michigan attorney James White, Pesta traveled to North Carolina where Teristi now lives with her husband and two sons. Over the course of dozens of in-person conversations, calls, emails, and texts, Sara revealed the abuse she suffered as a child at Great Lakes Gymnastics. One day, several months after their first meeting, Teristi texted Pesta that they should talk.
Despite some resolution in Nassar's case—he was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison—it's vital that stories like Teristi's and that of his other victims are told in books like this. Says Pesta:"I wanted to help people understand how this travesty had happened, in the hopes of helping to prevent it from happening again."
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