Larry Nassar biography, nationality, career, family, offense, fact
Lawrence Gerard Nassar (born August 16, 1963) is an American serial child molester, rapist and former sports medicine osteopathic physician.
For 18 years, Larry Nassar was the team doctor of the United States women’s national gymnastics team, where he used his position to exploit, deceive, and se.. x.ually as$@ult hundreds of children and young women.
Nassar’s se..x.ual abuse of young girls and women and the subsequent cover-up led to the USA Gymnastics se.. x abuse scandal that began in 2015, alleging that Nassar repeatedly se.. xu.ally assaulted at least 265 young women and girls under the guise of medical treatment. His victims included numerous Olympic and United States women’s national gymnastics team gymnasts.
Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison on December 7, 2017, after pleading guilty to child p00rn00graphy and tampering with evidence charges on July 11, 2017.
On January 24, 2018, Nassar was sentenced to an additional 40 to 175 years in Michigan State Prison after pleading guilty in Ingham County to seven counts of se..x.ual as$@ult.
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 se.. x.ual assault in Eaton County.
Larry Nassar’s early life
Nassar was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan in 1963. In 1978, he began working as a student athletic trainer for the women’s gymnastics team at North Farmington High School at age 15 on the recommendation of his older brother Mike, who was an athletic trainer at the school.
Nassar graduated from North Farmington High School in 1981. He studied kinesiology at the University of Michigan, where he earned his undergraduate degree in 1985. During this time, he worked for the university’s football and track & field teams.
Larry Nassar’s career
In 1993, Nassar graduated as a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his residency training in family practice at St. Lawrence Hospital before completing a fellowship in sports medicine in 1997.
He began working as an assistant professor at MSU’s Department of Family and Community Medicine in the College of Human Medicine in 1997, where he earned $100,000 a year (equivalent to $182,297 in 2022). Nassar is listed as a co-author on at least six research papers on the treatment of gymnastics injuries.
Sports medicine career
Nassar began working as an athletic trainer for the USA Gymnastics national team in 1986. In 1988, Nassar began working with John Geddert at Twistars, a gymnastics training club.
He began working as a team doctor at Holt High School in 1996. He served as the national medical coordinator for USA Gymnastics from 1996 until 2014.
Larry Nassar’s family
From 1996 to 2017, Nassar was married to his wife, Stefanie, and the couple had three children together. Nassar lived in Holt, Michigan at the time of his December 2016 arrest.
The couple separated after he was arrested on suspicion of sex crimes, and his wife was granted a divorce in July 2017, gaining full custody of their three children.
Larry Nassar’s death
Larry Nassar has been stabbed multiple times by another inmate at a federal prison in Florida, US media outlets report.
The Associated Press news agency confirmed the incident on Monday, saying Nassar, who is serving decades in prison, is in stable condition.
Joe Rojas, president of the local correction officers union, told CNN that Nassar was stabbed 10 times – twice in the neck, two times in the back and six times in the chest.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons said an inmate at the US Penitentiary Coleman in Wildwood, Florida, outside Orlando was assaulted on Sunday afternoon but declined to identify the prisoner over privacy and security concerns.
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