An inmate repeatedly abused Larry Nassar, a former sports physician for the US women’s gymnastics team, while he was incarcerated.
The Associated Press was informed by sources that Nassar, who is currently serving a 60-year term after being found guilty of sexually assaulting 265 girls, was stabbed numerous times at a federal prison in Florida.
The assault took place on Sunday afternoon about 2.35 p.m., according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. According to the individuals, who requested anonymity, Nassar got into a brawl with another prisoner.
The attacker stabbed the disgraced doctor in the chest and back. He is reportedly in stable condition.
Nassar was previously a licensed doctor of osteopathic medicine practicing at Michigan State University.
He began working as an athletic trainer for USA Gymnastics in 1986, then became the team’s primary sports-medicine doctor in 1996. The disgraced doctor abused patients for at least 14 years during his association with the team.
According to his accusers, Nassar assaulted them while providing ‘necessary’ medical treatment.
Nassar was convicted in 2017 after pleading guilty to multiple counts of sexual assault of a child and possession of child pornography.
‘I just signed your death warrant,’ Ingham County Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said after sentencing the 55-year-old physician in 2017.
Nassar’s victims included multiple Olympic medalists, including Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Maggie Nichols, and McKayla Maroney.
Maroney, who won gold medals at the 2012 London Olympics, said Nassar continuously abused her for the entire time she competed for the national team, between the ages of 13 and 15.
‘It seemed whenever and wherever this man could find me, I was “treated,”‘ Maroney wrote in letter published during the #MeToo campaign in 2017. ‘
It happened in London before my team and I won the gold medal, and it happened before I won my Silver,’ Maroney wrote.
Biles, who has won seven Olympic gold medals on the team since 2013, also identified herself as one of Nassar’s victims in a letter published in January 2018.
Michigan State eventually paid over 300 survivors who received treatment from Nassar over $500million
USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee also settled a lawsuit from victims, paying out $380million.
In 2021, multiple accusers, including Biles, Maroney, and Raisman, testified before congress about the FBI’s mishandling of the case.
‘Nassar is where he belongs, but those who enabled him deserve to be held accountable,’ Biles said. ‘If they are not, I am convinced that this will continue to happen to others across Olympic sports.’
FBI Director Christopher Wray said he was ‘deeply and profoundly sorry’ for the way the agency handled the accusations against Nassar.
‘I am sorry that so many people let you down over and over again and I am especially sorry that there were people at the FBI who had their own chance to stop this monster back in 2015 and failed,’ the director said.