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Who is Rachael Denhollander? Victim of Larry Nassar says she’s not ‘rejoicing’ after sex offender was stabbed in prison

'We're grieving the reality that protecting others from him came with the near certainty we would wake up to this someday,' Denhollander stated

WILDWOOD, FLORIDA: First victim of convicted sex offender Larry Nassar has reportedly shared that she’s not delighted after reports claimed that the 59-year-old criminal was stabbed in federal jail. Nassar has currently been serving his sentence at the United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida after he was found guilty of abusing his position as the USA gymnastics team doctor and molesting hundreds of women in his care.

BBC reported that the criminal suffered a collapsed lung after getting injured twice in the neck, twice in the back, and six times in the chest. Following the attack on Sunday night, July 9, he was shifted to the hospital, where he is said to be doing fine. However, Nassar’s accuser Rachael Denhollander has not shown any happiness over the news of the violence.

Who is Rachael Denhollander?

Denhollander was the one who first publicly spoke against Nassar. As per her website, she is “an attorney, author, advocate, and educator,” who “has extensive experience working with corporate boards, executive leadership, and politicians to help them understand how to lead with courage and integrity through crisis, how to communicate their values within their organizations and to the public, and how to properly respond to reports of abuse.”

The 38-year-old has also been honored by TIME Magazine after being named one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” as well as in 2018, her name was mentioned on Glamour Magazine’s “Women of the Year”.

Recently, Denhollander commented on Nassar’s attack and said as per the Daily Mail, “None of the women I've spoken with are rejoicing today. We're grieving the destruction across so much. We're grieving the reality that protecting others from him came with the near certainty we would wake up to this someday.”

“I wrestled so often with the reality that this headline would come. So many of us knew and we carried that weight when we spoke up too. Far too many lives were destroyed. Including his own,” she noted.

‘You have become a man ruled by selfish and perverted desires’

Denhollander also took to Twitter to express her views as she shared, “Justice is conformity to what is right. It should be pursued and fought for. Forgiveness is releasing personal vengeance and desiring for the offender to find true repentance and peace. I am holding both, especially today.”

She further said, “I still mean these words I spoke years ago: ‘Larry, I want you to understand why I made this choice knowing full well what it was going to cost to get here and with very little hope of ever succeeding. I did it because it was right. No matter the cost, it was right…’ And the farthest I can run from what you have become is to daily choose what is right instead of what I want. You have become a man ruled by selfish and perverted desires, a man defined by his daily choices repeatedly to feed that selfishness and perversion…”

“You chose to pursue your wickedness no matter what it cost others and the opposite of what you have done is for me to choose to love sacrificially, no matter what it costs me…” Denhollander noted, before adding, “I pray you experience the soul-crushing weight of guilt so you may someday experience true repentance and true forgiveness from God, which you need far more than forgiveness from me -- though I extend that to you as well...And that is what makes the gospel of Christ so sweet. Because it extends grace and hope and mercy where none should be found. And it will be there for you…”