Sexual Assault and Days of Reckoning in Sport

By Jon Heshka, Associate Professor at Thompson Rivers University Before there was Larry Nassar, there was Jerry Sandusky. There are, of course, many – too many – other instances of coaches and other adults in positions of authority sexually abusing and assaulting athletes but Nassar and Sandusky stand out for their notoriety. Nassar is the serial sexual predator advertised as “a knight in shining armor” who posed as a caring and compassionate doctor specializing in osteopathic medicine