Larry Nassar: Former USA Gymnastics doctor stabbed multiple times in federal prison, say sources

Disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been stabbed multiple times in federal prison, according to sources.

Sources told The Associated Press that the convicted sex abuser, 59, was attacked by another inmate at United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida overnight on Sunday.

Nassar was stabbed in the back and in the chest, one of the sources said.

The extent of his injuries is currently unclear but he is now said to be in stable condition.

The Independent has reached out to the Bureau of Prisons for further information.

Nassar is serving hundreds of years behind bars in the Florida penitentiary after he was convicted of both state and federal charges for sexually assaulting girls and young women on the USA gymnastics team.

As the team doctor, the sexual predator abused his position of trust and preyed on dozens of young gymnasts for several decades.

In many cases, he sexually assaulted his young victims under the guise of it being medical treatment for hip and leg injuries sustained during the sport.

As well as USA Gymnastics, based in Indianapolis, he also worked at Michigan State University and preyed on athletes there as well.

Many of his victims went on to become America’s biggest gymnastics stars and have since spoken out about the years of abuse they endured at his hands

He was finally arrested in December 2016 on child porn charges – more than a year after his first victim came forward with the allegations.

The scandal not only plagued USA Gymnastics – with victims revealing that they had confided in adults and coaches about the abuse – but also the FBI which failed to take the accusations seriously and left Nassar to abuse more than 120 further victims while they sat on the information for a year-and-a-half.

It was July 2015 when Maggie Nichols became the first victim to report his sexual abuse to USA Gymnastics bosses, who then passed the information onto the FBI’s Indianapolis field office.

Agents failed to open an investigation for another 17 months when a complaint about Nassar was then made to Michigan State University’s campus police.

The Justice Department watchdog later released a scathing report on the bureau’s handling of the matter, which it said let the sexual predator go on to abuse dozens more victims.

In 2021, several of Nassar’s victims including top gymnasts Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols appeared before a Senate Judiciary Committee where they gave emotional – and damning – testimony about the abuse that they suffered at the hands of Nassar – and how authorities failed to bring him to justice for years.

Following his 2016 arrest, Nassar pleaded guilty to child porn charges at his federal trial in December 2017.

Two months later, he pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct at a separate trial.

He is serving 60 years in prison on the federal charges and 175 years on the state charges.

While behind bars, the serial sex offender has sought to fight his length conviction, claiming that he was treated unfairly by the judge at his 2018 trial who called him a “monster” and said he should “wither” in prison like the wicked witch in “The Wizard of Oz”.

His final appeal was struck down by the Michigan Supreme Court in June 2022.