2023-07-11 03:51:00
The sports doctor Larry Nassar received multiple stab wounds last Sunday during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida, United States. The man, who was part of the gymnastics team of the North American country and was convicted of sexual abuse, is stable.
The episode took place at Coleman Penitentiary in Florida. As reported by Joe Rojas, president of Local 506 (the union that represents the employees of the jail where the doctor is located), Nassar (59) received a total of ten stab wounds: six on the chest, two on the neck and another two on the back. After the fact he was taken to a hospital and is stable.
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Through a statement, a source from the federal bureau of prisons confirmed the attack, which occurred on Sunday afternoon, but He did not want to identify the people involved.. In addition, he indicated that the prison medical staff quickly intervened to save his life. The FBI opened an investigation into the incident, in which no one else was hurt.
It is not the first time that Nassar has been attacked. In that sense, Randall Margraves, the father of three of his victims, tried to assault him in court.
After two of his daughters testified in court, the man asked Judge Janice Cuningham to allow him some time alone with the doctor. “I would ask you as part of the sentence that you grant me five minutes in a closed room with this demonhe implored.
Faced with the magistrate’s refusal, Margraves shook his head and insulted the condemned man, which earned him a warning from Cuningham about his language. However, the man did not stop there and lunged at Nassar, but was then knocked to the ground.
The sexual abuse and conviction of Larry Nassar
Larry Nassar (59) was stabbed ten times but is in stable condition.
Nassar was sentenced to 175 years in prison. for sexually assaulting gymnasts, mostly minors. Among the more than 250 victims of the doctor are Olympic medalists such as Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, who testified against the culprit in September 2021, during a United States Senate hearing.
In the middle of his trial, Nassar admitted to sexually assaulting athletes while working at the American Gymnastics Federation, Michigan State University and in a room in Lansing, in the same state. In parallel, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.
Nassar abused more than 250 women, most of them minors.
During the statements of the victims in the process, several athletes testified that, throughout the more than two decades that they suffered sexual abuse, they had told their coaches and other adults around them about the episodes. However, the doctor He was not denounced nor were measures taken to remove him.
More than 100 women, including Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, collectively petitioned over a billion dollars to the federal government due to the fbi incapacity at the time of arresting Nassar when officers learned of the allegations against him in 2015. The man was detained by Michigan State University police in 2016, more than a year later.
In 2018, Michigan State University reached a $500 million settlement with more than 300 women and girls. The educational establishment had been accused of inaction for years. Later, in 2021, Nassar’s victims reached a settlement agreement. 380 million dollars with the American Gymnastics Federationthe second largest on record for victims of sexual abuse.
Nassar pleaded guilty to sexual assault and possession of child pornography.
The Michigan Supreme Court last month rejected a final appeal by Nassar. The doctor’s defense argued that he was treated unfairly in 2018 and deserved a new hearing, based on vengeful comments by a judge who described him as a “monster” who would “wither” in prison like the wicked witch from “The Wizard of oz”. In this regard, on that occasion Ingham County Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said: “I just signed your death warrant.”
Although the Justice acknowledged that it was “concerned” by the magistrate’s conduct, it acknowledged that Aquilina, despite her provocative comments, adhered to the sentencing agreement drawn up by the lawyers in the case. “We refuse to spend additional judicial resources and to subdue the victims of this case to additional trauma when the issues at issue are nothing more than an academic exercise,” the court said in a two-page order.
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