Lawrence G. Nassar, a doctor convicted of sexually abusing a young female gymnast, was stabbed multiple times in the chest, back and neck at a federal prison in Florida, where he is serving a 60-year sentence, according to a statement. Two people familiar with the incident said. situation.
Nassar, 59, said he was in stable condition after being attacked by another inmate at Coleman Federal Correctional Institution, a sprawling prison in central Florida.
It is not clear when the altercation took place or what prompted the attack. A spokeswoman for the Federal Prison Service, which manages the facility, did not respond to a request for comment.
The episode was accused of sexually abusing and assaulting dozens of young women and children, including Michigan State University athletes, Olympic athletes and members of the U.S. Gymnastics Team, under the guise of providing. It adds to the long and troubled case of a once-prominent sports doctor. treatment and examination.
In a painful 2021 report, the Justice Department Inspector General said: The FBI initially failed to investigateallowing Mr. Nassar to assault more young women.
Nassar was convicted of federal crimes in 2017. A year later, he pleaded guilty to three more counts of sexual assault and was sentenced by a Michigan judge to an additional 40 to 125 years in prison. A federal judge ordered the judgment to be executed at the same time and remanded him to federal custody.
The case is also the latest in a series of suicides and violent attacks against some of the most notorious inmates in chronically understaffed federal prisons. last month, Theodore J. KaczynskiKnown as the Unabomber, the bombers killed three and wounded 23 from 1978 to 1995. died by suicide At the Federal Prison Medical Center in North Carolina.
In 2018, Boston gangster James Bulger, better known as Whitey, brutally beaten to death A series of administrative missteps and protocol violations left him vulnerable and left him vulnerable before being transferred to West Virginia State Penitentiary in 2018 before being held in federal prison, the inspector general said. found. A similar dysfunctional environment prevailed at Manhattan Federal Prison, where financier Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide by hanging in 2019. said in the report It was released last month.
last year, 13 female athletes Each of the women who were sexually assaulted by Mr. Nassar has demanded $10 million from the FBI, saying investigators miscalculated and allowed him to continue to abuse more victims.
The players in the lawsuit were abused by Nassar during the match. twisters A gymnastics club outside Lansing, Michigan. John Geddart, who owned the Twisters and introduced the injured player to Nassar, said: cycle of abuse, committed suicide In 2021, after being indicted on human trafficking charges.
Some of the athletes, some of whom were in middle school or high school at the time, were assaulted after the FBI first learned of the allegations of abuse in 2015, lawyers for the women said.
In 2021, the ministry’s inspector general severely criticized the FBI’s handling of the caseNassar said that from July 2015, when USA Gymnastics first reported the charges against Nassar to the FBI Indianapolis Field Office, to August 2016, when the Michigan State University Police Department received another complaint. He said he abused more than 70 young players.
