Larry Nassar, the previous sports physician who is serving a decades-long jail term for sexually abusing young female gymnasts, was stabbed several times throughout a run-in with another prisoner on Sunday, according to a report by the Associated Press.
2 individuals knowledgeable about the matter informed the AP the attack at United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida left Nassar in steady condition. One source stated Nassar was stabbed in the back and the chest.
Individuals talked to the AP on the condition of privacy since they were not licensed to talk about the information of the attack or the continuous examination openly.
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Nassar, the previous U.S.A. Gymnastics group physician, pleaded guilty in 2018 to federal and state charges of abusing lots of professional athletes, consisting of U.S. Olympic staff member Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, with over 150 providing victim-impact declarations at his sentencing hearing. He got a sentence of 40 to 175 years in jail.
Nassar’s sexual assault was exposed in a September 2016 examination by The Indianapolis Star, part of the U.S.A. TODAY Network.
