Convicted child molester Larry Nassar was stabbed multiple times in the federal prison where he is serving hundreds of years for sexually assaulting gymnasts, including gold medal-winning Olympians, according to a report Monday.
Two people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press the attack happened Sunday during a fight with another inmate at the United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida.
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He was stabbed in the back and in the chest but was said to be in stable condition, according to one of the sources.
More than 300 girls and women, including Olympians like Aly Raisman and Simone Biles, accused the former Michigan State University sports doctor of sexually abusing them under the guise of medical treatment in a pattern of horrendous abuse that stretched back decades.
He eventually admitted sexually assaulting athletes at the university and USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians.
The abuse led to three separate prison sentences in state and federal trials.
Michigan Judge Rosemarie Aquilina even told Nassar it was her “honour and privilege to sentence” him to 40 to 175 years in prison in January 2018.
“I just signed your death warrant,” she told him. “You do not deserve to walk outside a prison ever again.”
More than 65 women then gave impact statements during a separate trial in which Nassar got a 40- to 125-year sentence for abusing young girls at the Twistars Gymnastics Club in Dimondale, Michigan.
During that trial, a raging father whose three daughters said they were all molested by Nassar tried to attack him in court.
Nassar was also sentenced to 60 years in federal prison on child pornography charges.
Michigan State Police arrested him in 2016, but the university was accused of missing many opportunities to detain the predator and agreed to a $500 million settlement with his victims.
USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee also agreed to a $380 million settlement for failing to protect their young athletes from Nassar’s abuse.
This story first appeared in the New York Post and was republished with permission.
