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Michigan House of Representatives to investigate MSU

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The state House of Representatives started an investigation into Michigan State University Thursday.

Larry Nassar was sentenced this week for multiple cases of sexual assault against female patients. During his sentencing proceeding, more than a dozen women blamed MSU for letting Nassar continue to treat patients under their watch.

Now two Representatives say they’ll conduct an investigation. They sent a letter to the school demanding all documents related to the Nassar allegations.

Representative Klint Kesto co-signed the letter. He says they want to hold people accountable.

“What we need to do as a legislative body is make sure our families can trust the administrations that they send their children to.”

Kesto says the House investigation will focus on strengthening the state’s laws to prevent future abuse.

“We’re going  to be looking as deep as we need, as thorough as we need to be so that we can hold people accountable, we can be transparent to the victims and support them as best we can and then take action.”

Two Representatives sent a letter to MSU. It demands all documents related to Nassar allegations from 2014 to 2017.

Representative Kim LaSata co-signed the letter. She says this isn’t a witch hunt.

“What I want to do is find out what the problems were and then go from there. How we can make it better, how we can protect our kids when they’re on campus.”

MSU has until 5 o-clock on February 9th to deliver the information.