Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics team doctor convicted of sexually assaulting hundreds of athletes, was in stable condition on Monday after being stabbed multiple times by another inmate, a prison union official said.
Nassar, 59, was attacked on Sunday afternoon at the federal US Penitentiary Coleman II prison in Sumterville, Florida, where he is serving his sentence, said Joe Rojas, president of the local correctional officers union.
The disgraced physician was stabbed twice in the neck, six times in the chest and twice in the back, Rojas said.
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“He’s in stable condition last I heard,” Rojas said.
Nassar pleaded guilty in late 2017 and early 2018 to sexually assaulting athletes while working as a sports medicine doctor at USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, and was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison.
Hundreds of women — including Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney — have accused Nassar of sexually abusing them during his career of more than two decades.
The Bureau of Prisons declined to confirm for “privacy” reasons that Nassar had been attacked, but in response to a query about him said “an inmate” had been assaulted at 2:35pm on Sunday at the Coleman prison and taken to a local hospital.
“Responding staff immediately initiated life-saving measures,” the bureau said in a statement. “Staff requested emergency medical services and life-saving efforts continued.”
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation was notified,” the bureau said, adding that an “internal investigation is ongoing.”
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