He is serving an effective life sentence after pleading guilty in 2017 to federal child pornography charges and state sexual abuse charges.
Nassar was not arrested until November 2016. It was later learned that several Michigan State athletes had complained about Nassar, too, only to be ignored. Neither USA Gymnastics nor the USOPC said anything publicly about Nassar until The Indianapolis Star, part of the USA TODAY Network, published a story in September 2016 in which two former gymnasts said he’d sexually abused them. But it would be almost another year before the FBI began an investigation. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to Nassar’s suspected misconduct. USA Gymnastics reported Nassar to the FBI in the summer of 2015 and also alerted the U.S. Hundreds of athletes, including Olympic champions Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, said they were sexually abused by Nassar, often under the guise of medical treatment. Hundreds of athletes said they were abused by Larry Nassar He was eventually transferred to the Florida prison. Six months after his sentencing, Nassar was moved from a prison in Tucson, Arizona, to a holding facility in Oklahoma City after he was assaulted while a member of the general prison population. This was not the first time Nassar has been attacked in prison. "You can’t expect us to protect these inmates when you don’t support us and supply us with bodies and positions." "We warned of unsafe conditions for staff and inmates," Rojas said. Employees had an informational picket on June 22 to call attention to the shortages, which are requiring some staff to work 16-hour shifts three days in a row, Rojas said. Rojas praised the quick thinking of staff for Nassar surviving the attack but said prison employees had been warning that something like this could occur because of staffing shortages. WHO IS LARRY NASSAR? Timeline of career, sexual assault convictions The statement also said lifesaving measures were immediately initiated and an inmate was transported by emergency medical personnel to a local hospital "for further treatment and evaluation." on Sunday at the United States Penitentiary, Coleman in Sumterville, Florida. Nassar suffered a collapsed lung, Rojas told USA TODAY Sports but was in stable condition Monday.Ī statement by the Florida Board of Prisons obtained by the USA TODAY Network did not identify the individuals involved in the incident but confirmed it occurred at 2:35 p.m. Nassar, 59, was stabbed six times in the chest and twice each in the neck and back, according to Joe Rojas, president of Local 506, the union that represents employees at the Florida prison where Nassar is incarcerated. Larry Nassar, the former sports doctor who is serving a decadeslong prison term for sexually abusing young female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate on Sunday.
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