FLINT (WJRT) (1/25/2018) - They are the brave voices we have heard over a period of seven days.
The 156 women and girls - all of them gymnasts - who spoke about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of Doctor Larry Nasser.
Most of those girls were referred to the now disgraced doctor by their coaches - and even the U-S Olympic team.
Over the years - a gut feeling kept one Mid-Michigan gymnastics coach from allowing her athletes to be treated by Nassar.
Plain and simple she had a funny feeling that something wasn't right about Nassar.
Julie Fair- Sopic says looking back she could see the red flags.
“I personally watched some of those victims grow up in this sport of gymnastics,” AGA Gymnastics Training Center in Genesee County Director Julie Fair-Sopic said.
The former gymnast is now coaching the sport she loves.
She oversees 250 athletes at her facility, and it has been the talk between her and her athletes.
"It's horrific what's happened, but there are a lot of amazing athletes that are dedicating lives to this sport still,” she told ABC 12.
Often during trips to competitions, she would see the now disgraced Olympics Doctor Larry Nassar.
"A monster lived among them for so long, and I think you need to look at policies and procedures on how this happened,” Fair-Sopic said.
She says if her athletes were injured she wouldn't let Nassar treat them.
Fair-Sopic says a momma bear instinct stopped her from letting him near them.
"We do have our own team physician that he does have some gymnastic background, but not as much as much as Nassar, but it was a better fight for our gym,” she said.
She says in her interactions with Nassar she didn't witness his predatory behavior.
"Anybody can look back now and look at different interactions and conversations and now you can see wow that really was some grooming that was happening. But you know at the time nothing said we need to report something,” Fair-Sopic said.
With Nassar's sentencing, she's hoping the sport of gymnastics can heal.
Also, to move forward and focus more on the bright futures of the athletes who've trained so hard.