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Serial pedophile Larry Nassar videotaped the rape of a young field hockey player that led to her pregnancy in 1992 – and when her coach at Michigan State University complained about it, former athletic director George Perles intervened and covered it up, according to an explosive new lawsuit filed in federal court...
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Davis also told her coach, who confronted Nassar in his office in May 1992 and demanded the video, according to the court documents.
The suit alleges Ludwigalso complained to Perles, who was MSU's head football coach at the time.
“(Perles) intervened and the charges were dropped against the coach, but she was forced to return the video, resign and sign a non-disclosure agreement,” according to the court documents. “Upon information and belief, Coach Martha made and retained a copy of the videotape.”
Later in the summer, Davis had not had a period and informed a “dorm mom,” the suit says. So Davis took a pregnancy test that came back positive.
“The only person who could have caused her to be pregnant was Defendant Nassar,” according to the court documents. “(The dorm mom) told Plaintiff Erika that she had been raped and should report what happened to the police.”
Davis went to the MSU police departmentin October 1992.
“The police told them that since she was an athlete, she had to report it to the athletic department,” according to the court documents. “The detective explicitly told them that he was powerless to investigate anything that takes place to the athletic department and to go to the athletic department.
“(Davis) explained that the athletic department already dismissed it and the sergeant responded that George Perles is a ‘powerful man,’ and she should just drop it.”
Perles is currently on the board.