Former gymnastics physician Larry Nassar was reportedly targeted in a prison assault and may be moved to another facility.
New court documents say the disgraced sports doctor, formerly affiliated with the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team and Michigan State University, was assaulted within hours of his release into the general population at an Arizona federal prison, The Detroit News reported.
Nassar, 54, pleaded guilty to sexual assault and child pornography charges and was sentenced to 60 years.
Nassar’s lawyer Jacqueline McCann is seeking a re-sentencing for her client and blamed the assault on the sentencing judge Rosemarie Aquilina, who allowed 150 women to give victim impact statements in court in January.
"Judge Aquilina made numerous statements throughout the proceedings indicating that she had already decided to impose the maximum allowed by the sentence agreement even before the sentencing hearing began," McCann wrote in the filing, according to The Detroit News. "Thus, from the defendant's perspective the sentencing hearing was just a ritual.”
McCann also indicated the sentencing judge predicted Nassar would be assaulted in prison.
"The judge herself openly lamented that she could not impose cruel and unusual punishment upon the defendant, indicated her expectation that he would be harmed in prison, without condemning it, and finally proclaimed, with apparent relish, that she was signing his 'death warrant,'" McCann wrote.
Investigators are still seeking answers as to how Nassar was able to molest so many victims over such a prolonged period.
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