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What did former US national gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar do to be in prison?
- Larry Nassar was stabbed while serving up to 185 years in prison
- Find out what he did to get put in prison by reading on below
Former USA gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar reportedly suffered a collapsed lung after being stabbed multiple times by another inmate in federal prison.
Nassar was in the middle of serving up to 185 years in prison, given in 2018.
He was stabbed twice in the neck, twice in the back and six times in the chest at the United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida, according to NBC.
The Bureau of Prisons confirmed the assault to DailyMail.com but declined to identify any of the prisoners’ involved.
Read why Nassar went to prison in the first place below.
Nassar was in the middle of serving up to 185 years in prison, given in 2018, when he was stabbed
Nassar had pled guilty to multiple counts of sexual assault, and child pornography
Reforms across US sport came in as a result of the Larry Nassar case – including the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee adding athletes to its board
Who is Larry Nassar?
Lawrence Gerard, ‘Larry’ Nassar was born on August 16 1963 in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Aged just 15, Nassar worked as a student athletic trainer for the women’s gymnastics team at his school, where his brother was an athletic trainer.
Nassar finished school in 1981, and went on to study kinesiology at the University of Michigan.
Before graduating in 1985, he had worked for the university’s football and track and field teams.
He got a fellowship in sports medicine in 1997, by which point he had just started working for USA Gymnastics as their national medical coordinator, a role which he held until 2014.
However, he had already been working for local and school gymnastics clubs for nearly a decade.
Why is Larry Nassar in prison?
Some gymnasts claim that they complained about Nassar’s behaviour as early as the 1990s, but it took until 2015 for USA Gymnastics took action against him in light of accusations of sexual assault.
In September the following year, USA Gymnastics cut ties with Nassar entirely in light of ‘athlete concerns.’
That month Nassar was also fired by Michigan State University.
He was charged with three counts of first degree criminal sexual abuse on November 22 2016, and it was revealed that roughly 50 complaints had been received during the investigation.
In December 2016 Nasser was indicted on child pornography charges in a seperate case, to which he later pled guilty.
In 2017 Nassar faced an additional 22 charges of sexual assault, while more and more victims came forward.
On November 29 2017, he pled guilty to three counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct.
How many years is Larry Nassar serving?
He was sentenced to 6 years in prison on December 7 2017 for the child pornography charges of which he pled guilty.
On June 24 2018, he was sentenced to a further 40 to 125 years in prison on seven counts of criminal sexual assault, which would only begin on his completion of the 60-year sentence he received the previous year.
Less than six years after being first sentenced, Nassar was stabbed by another inmate in United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida on July 9 2023.
DailyMail
