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Ted Poe: I include in the Record the following statements from the Nassar trial: Megan Farnsworth (statement read on her behalf)…

On the recordJanuary 29, 2018
I include in the Record the following statements from the Nassar trial: Megan Farnsworth (statement read on her behalf): ``He took away something I can't get back. He took it 18 years ago when he did his procedures, and again when I was adult and learned what he had been doing.'' Kourtney Weidner (statement read on her behalf): ``Through these years I've experienced increase in anxiety and stress.'' Charla Burill (statement read on her behalf): ``You were the doctor who would give me a hug, who seemed to understand.'' Lauren Michalak (statement read on her behalf): ``It makes me feel disgusted that a man that was so respected in the community could take advantage of a girl who was only in 8th grade.'' Sherry Bradley (mother of Vanasia Bradley): ``I am sick to my stomach with disgust and betrayal.'' Presley Allison: ``I was abused while my own mother was in the room.'' Kamerin Moore: ``You molested a little girl who had just lost her father . . . you used my father's death as another opportunity to manipulate the trust I put in you.'' Catherine Hannum: ``What he did to me . . . is disgusting, vile, and wrong. I am going to find my sense of self again and it starts with this letter.'' Jessica Chedler Rodriguez: ``USA Gymnastics should be held accountable for each and every one of these acts of abuse they allowed to happen.'' Taryn Look: ``I was still a child . . . .…
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Ted Poe
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Jan 29, 2018

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