By Reuters: Larry Nassar, the disgraced physician of USA Gymnastics who was convicted of sexually abusing younger feminine gymnasts, was stabbed a number of occasions by one other inmate in jail. He was in secure situation on Monday (native time), US media reported.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that an inmate on the US Penitentiary Coleman in Florida was assaulted on Sunday afternoon, however declined to establish the prisoner over privateness and safety considerations.
“Responding staff immediately initiated life-saving measures,” bureau spokesperson Benjamin O’Cone mentioned in a press release. “The inmate was transported by (emergency personnel) to a local hospital for further treatment and evaluation.”
The FBI was notified of the incident, and an inside investigation is ongoing, O’Cone added. No different employees or inmates had been injured, he mentioned.
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Nassar, who’s serving a decades-long sentence following his 2018 conviction, was stabbed 10 occasions — twice within the neck, twice within the again, and 6 occasions within the chest — Joe Rojas, president of the native correction officers’ union, advised CNN.
According to the Associated Press, which was the primary to report the assault, Nassar was in secure situation.
Nassar was sentenced to as much as 175 years in jail for sexually abusing younger feminine gymnasts who had been entrusted to his care, together with Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney.
His sentencing adopted a unprecedented week-long listening to wherein 160 of his victims, most of whom had been minors on the time they had been abused, unflinchingly advised their tales.
Since the Nassar scandal, USA Gymnastics has overhauled its management and filed for chapter, saying on the time it was staggering beneath the load of lawsuits filed by a whole lot of girls who had been sexually abused by the previous group physician.
Nassar’s former employer, Michigan State University, agreed to a $500 million settlement with the a whole lot of girls who had been sexually abused by him. USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee reached a $380 million settlement.
A July 2021 report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz uncovered widespread and dire errors by the FBI that allowed Nassar to proceed to abuse not less than 70 extra victims earlier than he was lastly arrested.
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In September 2021, Biles and Maroney had been among the many high-profile Olympic gymnasts who gave heart-wrenching testimony earlier than a US Senate panel concerning the sexual abuse they endured for years beneath Nassar’s care.
At that listening to, the gymnasts blasted the FBI for its mishandling of the investigation, with Biles accusing the bureau of turning a blind eye to all of Nassar’s victims.
