Were Joseph alive today to face down his accusers and victims of child molestation, pedophilia, and the women he sexually violated I imagine his court hearing would be similar to that of Larry Nassar's, sports doctor to US gymnasts - now known to have violated at least 150 women, some as young as 13. As more and more of them have been coming forward in his court hearing to finally let it be known they too want to be counted among those having their day in court.

At one point, Nassar asked the judge to make them stop testifying in his presence because they were bad for his mental health (he has no concern for theirs.)

Nassar is facing the rest of his life behind bars.

"The accusers stood at a podium, often flanked by a parent or spouse who had to fight back tears, against a backdrop of photos of the speaker from the time of their sessions with Nassar. Many of them spoke directly to Nassar, who kept his eyes down and occasionally wept.

"How dare you?"

"You are nothing."

"Little girls don't stay little forever."

"I can't even put into words how much I f------ hate you."

Emily Morales, 18, got Nassar to speak.

"I want you to apologize right now," she demanded.

"I'm sorry," he said.

After each statement, Aquilina spoke to the accuser. Sounding more like a therapist than a judge, she said they were survivors, not victims and newly minted members of a powerful "sisterhood." She made little jokes about her Army background and her sideline as a crime novelist.

And she promised that Larry Nassar would die in prison.

"The next judge he faces will be God," she said.

The vast majority of the women who testified against Nassar were unknown to the wider public. But on the morning of the third day, two familiar faces appeared — Olympic gold medalists Aly Raisman and Jordan Wieber, members of the 2012 team.

It was Wieber's first public accusation of abuse, and she used the platform to amplify criticism of the institutions that allowed Nassar access to vulnerable girls.

"My parents trusted USA Gymnastics and Larry Nassar to take care of me and we were betrayed by both," she said. "And now the lack of accountability from USAG, [U.S. Olympic Committee] and Michigan State have caused me and many other girls to remain shameful, confused and disappointed," she said.

Raisman came to the podium and electrified the courtroom with her demand for an independent investigation and a no-holds-barred attack on Nassar that transformed her from athlete into activist.

She seized on a surreal letter the ex-doctor had written to the judge, complaining that listening to the accusers was bad for his mental health.

"You are pathetic to think that anyone would have any sympathy for you," she said. "You think this is hard for you? Imagine how all of us feel."

Then she made it clear that Nassar, 54, would be hearing from her and the other women long after the hearing ended.

"Imagine feeling like you have no power and no voice," she said. "Well, you know what, Larry, I have both power and voice. And I am only beginning to just use them." "

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/army-women-fights-gymnastics-doctor-larry-nassar-words-n840481



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Thank you for sharing this, Amyjo. There are three things that are unacceptable to me in every way. None of them deserve mercy. One is violating children. That is pure evil. And trust me on this: it’s not just girls.....................

This is so true. Boys are as vulnerable as girls are to predators. There is no punishment good enough for the bastards who molest them, or worse.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ba/17/6c/ba176c4b6e89fffcbfe96c45d2085669--meet-women-mormons.jpg

It's funny how things are in 2018. It's much clearer to the world what evil men have been up to all these years, going all the way back to the days of JS.

I was in my early twenties, having fainting spells, my GP sent me to a cardiologist, I didn't know what to expect. Having now been seen by many doctors, I know that the "breast exam" that the cardiologist did was not only a not an exam, that cardiologists don't do breast exams, but why it felt so invasive, and why I stopped going to doctors for years, and why I now always insist on a female doctor.

My health suffered greatly during my "no doctor" period, lasting over a decade. To voluntarily disrobe, sit and lay there passively, and pay a "professional" to molest me caused such a rip in my psych, such self-doubt about myself, my ability to "tolerate an examination" by a male doctor. I punished myself mentally and physically.

I couldn't have been the only one he molested, nor even the worst crime he committed. I remember his name, and I hope the fear is now giving him fainting spells.

Maybe it's the perverted mentality that draws these monsters to a profession where they have access to naked bodies and to touching in otherwise off limits places, that gives the appearance of 'normalcy' to outsiders.

That kind of unwanted touching constitutes an assault upon your person, in addition to molestation.

If you haven't already, may want to consider filing a report with the state medical oversight committee where that doctor is licensed to practice medicine. It may be filed away, but will at a minimum be a record of misconduct that will be there when/if others arise.

Just recently this (more or less) happened to me.

I'm 31, a childhood sexual abuse, rape and sexual assault survivor.

I almost never go to a medical appointment without my mom.

The one time I did, I was assaulted. I haven't reported it because there's plausibile deniability on the doctor's part and it's my word against hers (yes, the doc is female).

These girls were lucky to be listened to and very lucky to have each other.

I went to the police multiple times for each incident (apart from the doctor). I was made to feel like I was the criminal or a drama queen. Nothing was done, even when a piece of child pornography made by molester was submitted into evidence (which they then "lost").

In my course of recovery, I learned only something like 10% of victims come forward. Many end up drug addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes or in jail, not that I blame them in any way.

Being violated rips your soul apart. It makes normal life and maturing from childhood to adulthood confusing.

Fortunately, my mom is an angel and my best friend. Without her, I don't know where I'd be. Probably in jail for murdering the perps.

Nassar had the book thrown at him today. Sentenced to 175 years by Judge Aquilina.

He copped a plea deal; wasn't enough to save his ass.

She said "I just signed your death warrant," to him.

Some other of her statements,

"Inaction is action. Silence is indifference.

Justice requires more than what judge can do on the bench.

Sexual predator based on the number of cases going unreported, she can't even imagine how many victims he's actually assaulted.

Honor and privilege to hear the sister survivors, it is her honor and privilege to sentence him."



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Joe was a sexual predator, NOT a pedophile. His younger "wives" were too old for him to qualify.

It may be true that Smith was not a pedophile although not for the reason you adduce.

Pedophilia is the term for people who are exclusively or predominantly attracted to prepubescent children. There is no evidence that Smith was exclusively or predominantly interested in such girls. He seems to have been an equal-opportunity rapist and sexual assaulter.

He did, however, engage in sexual contact with children who would, according to the APA, qualify as pedophilic age. The standard is "onset of puberty" plus one or two years. So today, when girls begin the process at 10 or 11, and boys at 11 or 12, the standard is age 13. Since in the early and middle 19th century the onset of puberty for girls came at 15 or 16, girls under 16 or more would qualify. This matches, incidentally, the pattern of marriages, which we know took place at a median female age of over 20 in that period.

So while Smith's voracious sexuality indicates that he was not predominantly interested in little girls, and hence was probably not a pedophile, he most definitely wa a child molester and worthy of condign punishment on that score. Joseph Smith was a predator, a rapist, and a child molester.

His youngest victims were little girls, and he used his authority and the pressure of his friends and allies to rape them. That's the bottom line.

If Joseph were alive today, he wouldn't live to tell about it.

Righto. There's no way in hell he could replicate what he created in the early 19th century today.

a few years ago Warren Jeffs would have disagreed with you.

Luckily nothing like that is on-going anymore because, Truth, Justice, Goodness, etc.

While Jeffs rots away in prison.

It's surprising he's still alive.

I think the reason he's still alive is that he's not in general population.

thanks for this posting. I appreciate the recounting of the judge's comments. Very powerful.