Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times at Florida federal prison
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I never understood the logic to assault somebody like this. When the feeble minded feel empowered to met out punishment to another person already convicted, I just shake my head. Most of them can barely read or write, let alone make a complex decision like that.
Child porn/pedophilia versus murdering a child/young adult selling fentanyl or heroin. You know the answer, I won't say it, so the drug dealer should be at the bottom.
When are these people getting stabbed up?
Child porn/pedophilia versus murdering a child/young adult selling fentanyl or heroin. You know the answer, I won't say it, so the drug dealer should be at the bottom.
When are these people getting stabbed up?
Larry Nassar Allegedly Shivved Over Gross Comment About ‘Girls’ at Wimbledon
The disgraced sports doc was stabbed ten times by an inmate previously convicted of other prison attacks, a source confirmed to The Daily Beast.
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The drug dealers of the past sold relatively harmless s*** to people. Now they're going on Snapchat and shipping out packages to little kids houses where they overdose and die.
All of his victims are alive and even getting married and starting families. Versus being on a slab at a morgue refrigerated.
All of his victims are alive and even getting married and starting families. Versus being on a slab at a morgue refrigerated.
And some people try to insult sports fan.. look what good came out of the situation.. sports for the win
Report: Nassar victims get $100M for FBI failure
The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay around 100 victims of Larry Nassar approximately $100 million for the FBI's failures to properly investigate reports of Nassar's sexual assaults against America's top gymnasts, according to a report.
Where Is Larry Nassar Now? Inside the Ex-USA Gymnastics Doctor’s Life in Prison Nearly a Decade After Sexual Assault Convictions
Disgraced Olympic doctor Larry Nassar is serving up to 360 combined years in prison for his sex crimesBy
Lynsey Eidell
Published on October 3, 2026 05:30AM EDT
Larry Nassar; Larry Nassar in 2017.Credit :
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NEED TO KNOW
- Larry Nassar, a former USA Gymnastics doctor, received sentences totaling up to 360 years after hundreds of molestation survivors came forward
- His crimes prompted lawsuits and leadership changes at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics
- Nassar is currently being held at a federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania after surviving two attacks from fellow inmates
Nassar, a Michigan State University sports medicine doctor, began working with USA Gymnastics — the governing body for the U.S. Olympic team — in 1986, eventually becoming the organization’s national medical coordinator. In that role, Nassar traveled to four Olympics with the U.S. women’s gymnastics team and became one of the most sought-after physicians for gymnasts at all levels. He was renowned for his ability to heal gymnasts suffering from pain and injuries, particularly in the back, ankle and hip area, according to The Detroit News.
However, Nassar was actually sexually assaulting hundreds of young gymnasts and athletes for more than two decades under the guise of medical treatment. Despite complaints being made to Michigan State, USA Gymnastics and the FBI over the years, Nassar continued to abuse patients until 2016 — when two former gymnasts publicly accused the doctor of molesting them when they were minors in the Indianapolis Star.
The article opened the floodgates for more victims to come forward. By 2018, as many as 265 victims of Nassar’s had shared their stories of abuse. Nassar’s list of accusers includes some of the biggest names in women’s gymnastics, including Olympians Aly Raisman, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Gabby Douglas.
“I didn’t think I was being molested. I didn’t know,” Raisman said when revealing her abuse. “He was a doctor. I never would have thought that a doctor would misuse his power so much.”
The sex abuse scandal rocked the gymnastics world, resulting in multiple lawsuits and leadership changes at both MSU and USA Gymnastics. Nassar ultimately pleaded guilty to multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct and federal child pornography charges, and received three sentences totaling up to 360 years in prison.
Where is Larry Nassar now? Here’s what to know about the convicted sex offender’s life in prison.
Larry Nassar began working with gymnasts while he was in high school
Larry Nassar.Scott Olson/Getty
Nassar began working with gymnasts in the late 1970s when he was in high school at North Farmington High School in Farmington Hills, Mich., according to The Detroit News. At the behest of his older brother, Nassar began working as a student athletic trainer with his high school’s women’s gymnastics team in 1978 — eventually earning a varsity letter for his role in assisting the team.
Nassar went on to earn a kinesiology degree from Michigan State University in 1985 and began working with the U.S. national gymnastics team as an athletic trainer the following year. By 1988, he was volunteering at the Olympic trials and began working with the esteemed Michigan gymnastics club, Twistars. While establishing himself in the gymnastics community, Nassar also began attending medical school at Michigan State, eventually receiving his medical degree in osteopathic medicine in 1993.
After completing his residency, Nassar became the national medical coordinator for USA Gymnastics in 1996 and, a year later, was named a team physician and assistant professor at his alma mater MSU, USA Today reported. He would remain at both institutions for almost two decades.
Two former gymnasts first accused Nassar of sexual abuse in 2016
Rachael Denhollander; Jamie Dantzscher.
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Allegations of sexual abuse by Nassar first came to light in September 2016, when two former gymnasts publicly accused the doctor of molesting them when they were children in the 1990s and early 2000s in the Indianapolis Star, according to NPR.
In the report, Rachel Denhollander and a former Olympic gymnast (who was later revealed to be 2000 Olympian Jamie Dantzscher) alleged that while they were minors, Nassar had groped and fondled them, penetrated them with ungloved fingers and spoke about oral sex when they were alone. At the time, Dantzscher filed a lawsuit in California, while Denhollander filed a complaint with MSU police.
The two women came forward after seeing an earlier article in the Indianapolis Star in August 2016 that exposed sexual abuse within USA Gymnastics — but at the coaches level, per NPR.
https://people.com/sports/larry-nassar-sex-abuse-case-explains-everything/
After reading the article, Denhollander emailed the newspaper’s tip line to share her story about Nassar. Separately, the newspaper learned of Dantzscher’s story as she was preparing to sue Nassar in California for abuse that occurred between 1994 and 2000.
“That was the moment when I thought, ‘Oh, my God, we might really be on to something,’ ” Indy Star reporter Mark Alesia told NPR.
He was charged with multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct, sexual assault and receipt of child pornography
Larry Nassar.
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In November 2016, the first criminal charges were leveled against Nassar. The sports medicine doctor was charged with three counts of criminal sexual conduct for “predatory, menacing criminal acts involving a minor, a young girl under the age of 13,” Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said in a press conference, per NBC News.
The charges related to alleged abuse that occurred at Nassar’s Holt, Mich., home between 1998 and 2005, and the victim was not a gymnast or a patient of Nassar’s. (Later court testimony revealed that the victim was a family friend of Nassar’s, who was assaulted almost weekly from the time she was 6 years old until she was 12, according to The Detroit News.)
However, Schuette stated that those initial charges against Nassar were just the “tip of the iceberg.” At the time Nassar was arrested, authorities revealed that as many as 50 gymnasts and patients had come forward with sexual abuse complaints against the doctor — but those cases were still being investigated.
By February 2017, 22 new sexual assault charges were leveled against Nassar, per the Lansing State Journal. These charges were directly related to abuse that reportedly occurred at his MSU sports medicine practice and at the Michigan gymnastics club Twistars. Five of the counts involved girls who were under the age of 13, and the rest of the victims were between the ages of 13 and 16. All of the victims were allegedly assaulted during medical appointments, during which Nassar reportedly performed digital vaginal or anal penetration without consent.
Separately, in December 2016, Nassar was indicted on federal child pornography charges, the Lansing State Journal reported. According to the federal indictment, Nassar had allegedly received or attempted to receive images of child pornography and was reportedly in possession of “thousands of images of child pornography” — including images of a child younger than 12. At a subsequent hearing, an FBI agent testified that investigators uncovered at least 37,000 images and videos of child pornography on Nassar’s hard drives, including videos of him sexually assaulting girls under the age of 12, per the Lansing State Journal.
In February 2017, federal prosecutors added a third child pornography charge to Nassar’s previous indictment — alleging that the disgraced doctor had deleted and destroyed child pornography files on his laptop computer and several external hard drives, according to the Lansing State Journal.
Nassar pleaded guilty to multiple charges and was sentenced to a total of 360 years in prison
Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Maggie Nichols prepare to testify about the FBI’s handling of the Larry Nassar investigation in 2021.
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Nassar pleaded guilty in both the federal and state cases against him in 2017.
The disgraced doctor first pleaded guilty to the three child pornography charges in federal court in July 2017. Under the sentencing guidelines at the time, Nassar faced a maximum sentence of 27 years, ABC News reported. However, at his sentencing in December 2017, U.S. District Judge Janet Neff ordered Nassar to serve 60 years in federal prison for his crimes.
In November, Nassar pleaded guilty to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Michigan’s Ingham County Circuit Court. As part of the plea deal, prosecutors agreed to not add any additional charges for the dozens of other victims who had since come forward. A week later, Nassar pleaded guilty to three additional counts of criminal sexual conduct — but this time, in Michigan’s Eaton County. The plea agreement carried similar provisions to the Ingham County plea deal, according to the Lansing State Journal.
“For all those involved, I’m so horribly sorry,” Nassar said in Ingham County Circuit Court. “I want them to heal. I want this community to heal.”
Nassar’s sentencing hearing in the Ingham County case lasted seven days in January 2018, with 156 of his victims providing impact statements — including Olympic gold medal gymnast Aly Raisman.
“You never healed me. You took advantage of our passions and our dreams,” Raisman said to Nassar directly in court. “Imagine feeling like you have no power, and no voice. Well you know what Larry, I have my power and my voice, and I will use them.”
Judge Rosemarie Aquilina of Michigan’s Ingham County Circuit Court sentenced Nassar to up to 175 years in prison, telling the predator that his “crimes have cut into the core of this community and families” and that she “wouldn’t send [her] dogs to you, sir.”
“I just signed your death warrant,” she added, while handing down the lengthy sentence.
In February 2018, Judge Janice Cunningham sentenced Nassar to up to 125 years in prison for his sex crimes committed in Eaton County.
Where is Larry Nassar now?
Larry Nassar in 2018.
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Nassar is currently behind bars at a federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., after being moved several times following his initial sentencings. He will remain behind bars — either in federal or state prison — for the rest of his life.
After his sentencing in the Eaton County charges, Nassar was transferred from the Milan Federal Correctional Institution near Ann Arbor, Mich., to a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz., USA Today reported. But after being “physically attacked” by inmates once he was released into general population at the United States Penitentiary Tucson, Nassar was transferred after an investigation deemed he was no longer safe at the Arizona facility, per The Detroit News.
From there, Nassar was moved to another federal prison, Coleman II U.S. Penitentiary, in central Florida, according to the Washington Post. In July 2023, he was attacked a second time: Nassar was reportedly stabbed multiple times in the neck, chest and back by another inmate after making a comment while watching the women’s Wimbledon tennis tournament.
“I wish there were girls playing,” the convicted sex offender reportedly said, before being attacked by a fellow inmate.
Other inmates stepped in to stop the attack, according to the Associated Press, and correctional officers performed life-saving measures on Nassar before he was transported to the hospital. He suffered multiple injuries, including a collapsed lung, but survived.
Following the stabbing, Nassar was moved from USP Coleman to USP Lewisburg, a federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania where he remains today, according to The Daily Item. His release date from federal prison is currently listed as Jan. 30, 2068, per the Federal Bureau of Prisons. If Nassar is still alive at that point (he would be 104 years old), he would then begin serving his state prison term of up to 175 years in Michigan, per the Washington Post.
After a September 2026 ruling from Michigan’s highest court, Nassar — along with more than 20,000 sex offenders — was removed from the state’s public registry. The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that offenders cannot be forced to register under new versions of the sex offender registration law if the crimes occurred before the law took effect, per The Washington Post.
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