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Nassar ordered to stand trial on sexual assault charges

Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal

MASON — A day after Rachael Denhollander met with Michigan State University police to say she’d been sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar, Detective Sgt. Andrea Munford met with the acclaimed doctor in a small interview room.

The detective told the doctor police had received another complaint, and he appeared surprised.

"I’m trying to actually help them, not hurt them," Nassar said, of his patients. "That’s the bottom line.”

A recording of their Aug. 30 interview, which lasted about 40 minutes, was played in a Mason courtroom Friday before Ingham District Judge Donald Allen ruled there was probable cause to send Nassar to trial on 12 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.