Larry Nassar
Larry Nassar | |
|---|---|
Nassar at his sentencing in 2018 | |
| Born | Lawrence Gerard Nassar August 16, 1963 |
| Alma mater | Michigan State University (DO) |
| Occupations | Osteopathic physician, professor |
| Years active | 1993–2016 |
| Organization | USA Gymnastics |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) |
| Criminal status | Incarcerated |
| Spouse |
Stefanie Anderson
(m. 1996; div. 2017) |
| Children | 3 |
| Convictions | Federal Receipt and attempted receipt of child pornography (18 U.S.C. § 2252) Possession of child pornography (18 U.S.C. § 2252) Destroying and concealing evidence (18 U.S.C. § 1519) Michigan First degree criminal sexual conduct (10 counts) |
| Criminal penalty | 140 to 360 years imprisonment Federal 60 years imprisonment, sentenced on December 7, 2017 Michigan 40 to 175 years imprisonment, sentenced on January 24, 2018 40 to 125 years imprisonment, sentenced on February 5, 2018 |
| Details | |
| Victims | 265+ |
| Country | United States |
Date apprehended | November 22, 2016 |
| Imprisoned at | Federal Correctional Institution, Lewisburg; Federal Bureau of Prisons Register #21504-040; earliest possible release January 30, 2068 |
Lawrence Gerard Nassar (born August 16, 1963) is an American convicted serial sex offender and former family medicine osteopathic physician. He served as a team doctor for the United States women's national gymnastics team from 1996 to 2014, where he used his position to exploit and sexually assault hundreds of young athletes as part of the largest sexual abuse scandal in sports history. Nassar was a team physician at Michigan State University under William Strampel from 1997 to 2016, and multiple student athletes reported his inappropriate behavior.
In 2016, following an eight-month investigation, Nassar was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting at least 265 young women and girls over a 22-year period under the guise of medical treatment. His victims included numerous Olympic and United States women's national gymnastics team gymnasts.
Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison on December 7, 2017, after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography and tampering with evidence on July 11, 2017. On January 24, 2018, Nassar was sentenced to an additional 40 to 175 years in the Michigan Department of Corrections, after pleading guilty in Ingham County to seven counts of sexual assault. On February 5, 2018, he was sentenced to an additional 40 to 125 years in Michigan State Prison after pleading guilty to an additional three counts of sexual assault in Eaton County.
The judge in charge of the federal case ordered his state and federal sentences to run consecutively, ensuring a de facto sentence of life imprisonment without parole. In the unlikely event that Nassar is still alive when his federal sentence is complete, upon release he will immediately be transferred to a Michigan state prison to serve his two state sentences concurrently.
Nassar is a central figure of the 2020 film Athlete A, a Netflix documentary about the scandal.