Both state Attorney General Bill Schuette and MSU President Lou Anna Simon have rebuffed the idea of an independent investigation.
"For decades, MSU athletic trainers, supervisors, head coaches and even psychologists received first-hand testimony of the sexual abuse perpetrated by Larry," Denhollander said during a news conference following Nassar's plea hearing. "Each and every time, MSU officials silenced these victims.
"Larry continued to have access to little girls for decades, and MSU officials continued to hold him up as the best of the best. To use him as a marketing tool for bringing talented athletes into their program, and paying medical patients into the school. And this continued until the day I came forward."
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John Manly, a California attorney, represents many of those women and girls. During the news conference Wednesday he said MSU President Lou Anna Simon should either release findings from the university's internal investigations or resign.
“These young women and these young girls deserve justice, and they deserve to know who knew what, when," Manly said. "And the truth is, Michigan State is hiding that information. And when institutions hide information there's a reason.
Lou Anna Simon was the president of the NCAA when Penn State happened, and praised Penn State's decision to hire Louis Freeh and do an independent investigation. The only investigation of Michigan State in this case that's occurred, is by their own attorneys. In my experience, your own attorneys rarely find you guilty.”
Larissa Boyce is one of the women who say they told Klages in 1997.
"I think that that’s a cop out,” she said of a statement MSU released following the plea hearing. "Multiple people at MSU were told about it or knew about. … It wasn’t just him. MSU is trying to push the blame just on him."
Boyce added that she wants the university to own up and say they were at fault, and to release documents related to the internal investigations related to Nassar.
"It makes me think that they’re hiding something and they know that people knew about it and did nothing," she said.
With the exception of Nassar, who was fired for not following the protocols put in place after the 2014 investigation, Klages and Lemmen are the only two university employees MSU initiated any administrative actions against related to Nassar.
"Clearly, Michigan State has a culture of secrecy," Manly, the attorney suing MSU, said during the Wednesday press conference. "And they don't get it. If you want to stop this, come clean. Fix what happened, get rid of those that did it and move forward."
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