Trove of child rape videos found at ex-USA Gymnastics doctor’s home: FBI

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Trove of child rape videos found at ex-USA Gymnastics doctor’s home: FBI
By Hannah Withiam
December 21, 2016 | 7:13pm

Larry Nassar
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Former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar was too late trying to discard the thousands of incriminating images and videos that mark him as the “worst” kind of danger to society, according to a magistrate judge overseeing his hearings Wednesday.

Nassar, 53, will remain jailed on child pornography charges after an FBI agent said at least 37,000 images and videos were discovered in a garbage can outside his home during a search of his property in Holt, Michigan, the Lansing State Journal reported.

Special agent Rod Charles testified Wednesday that trash collection was delayed the day of the search warrant, allowing an officer to check the garbage bin by the curb of Nassar’s property and find a collection of external hard drives bearing his name and address.

Included in the stash are videos of the doctor sexually assaulting girls under the age of 12 in a pool and others of young girls being raped. Assistant US Attorney Sean Lewis, in his request for Nassar to be detained, stressed his decades’ worth of sexual assault allegations and the age of his victims, including one who was 6-years-old.

Nassar’s lawyer had requested electronic monitoring at home.

Nassar was arrested last month on charges of sexually assaulting a girl at his home between 1998 and 2005. After pleading not guilty and being released on a $1 million bond, he was indicted on federal charges last week and faces up to life in prison.

Additionally, Nassar is the subject of at least four lawsuits alleging he assaulted female student-athletes while they were undergoing treatments. The latest was filed Wednesday in Los Angeles by former Michigan State softball player Tiffany Thomas Lopez.

In a lawsuit obtained by ESPN, Lopez says she went to Nassar, a nationally recognized osteopathic physician at the time, for treatment of chronic lower back pain starting in 1998. The lawsuit alleges Nassar sexually abused her during her visits more than 10 times over the course of three years, using an exam he called “inter-vaginal adjustments.”

Lopez claims she told three separate Michigan State athletic trainers about Nassar’s actions, which included “[touching] her vagina” and, when he “became more bold,” having her “remove her pants, and then inserting his bare, ungloved and unlubricated hand into her vagina.”

When Lopez refused to continue her visits with Nassar in 2001, according to the lawsuit, the university coerced her into declaring herself medically inactive and ending her playing career. Soon after, the standout softball player left Michigan State and went back home to California.

“They told me he was a world-renowned physician. What they did not tell me is that he was a serial molester and pedophile,” Lopez said at a news conference Wednesday. “I feel guilty. Not because I did anything wrong, but because I was not able to come forward sooner to help other girls.”

 

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Aly Raisman reveals sexual abuse by Team USA doctor
By Jaclyn Hendricks
November 10, 2017 | 7:58am | Updated

Aly Raisman and Larry Nassar
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Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman says she was sexually abused by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar in a forthcoming interview with “60 Minutes.”

In a preview released Friday, Raisman, 23, tells the show’s Dr. Jon LaPook she was first treated by Nassar, who spent nearly three decades as an osteopath with the USA Gymnastics organization, when she was 15 years old. The gold medalist says many have asked why she and other accusers didn’t speak up right away.

“Why are we looking at why didn’t the girls speak up?” Raisman said in the sit-down, airing Sunday. “Why not look at what about the culture? What did USA Gymnastics do, and Larry Nassar do, to manipulate these girls so much that they are so afraid to speak up?”

Raisman’s Fab Five teammate from the 2012 London games, McKayla Maroney, revealed her own horror story of alleged sexual abuse by Nassar, claiming he had given her a sleeping pill and she had woken up alone with him in his hotel room during the 2011 world championships in Tokyo. Raisman spoke out in support of Maroney, 21, who posted her account online in October as part of the #MeToo campaign, in the wake of sexual allegations mounting against disgraced producer (((Harvey Weinstein))).

“@McKaylaMaroney love you girls!!!!!!!” Raisman tweeted, in response to former teammate Jordyn Wieber’s message. “So sad and heartbreaking that this happened to you Mack. I’m here for you and I support you.”

Raisman hopes to transform the culture, particularly for young women.

“I am angry. I’m really upset because it’s been — I care a lot, you know, when I see these young girls come up to me, and they ask for pictures or autographs, whatever it is, I just — I can’t — every time I look at them, every time I see them smiling, I just think — I want to create change so that they never, ever have to go through this,” Raisman said.

This isn’t the first time Raisman has spoken out against the disgraced doctor. In August, the medalist blasted Nassar as a “monster” after he pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.

Nassar awaits a separate trial on criminal sexual conduct charges and has pleaded not guilty. More than 125 women have sued him for alleged sexual assault. He is currently incarcerated in Michigan.

Ahead of Raisman’s interview, USA Gymnastics issued a statement to “60 Minutes” saying they have embraced a new “safe sport policy,” which would require “mandatory reporting” of any suspected sexual abuse.

“USA Gymnastics is very sorry that any athlete has been harmed,” the organization noted, adding they have set standards to “prevent inappropriate interaction” between adults and athletes. They want to work with Raisman and all interested parties to “keep athletes safe.”

 

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Disgusting gymnastics doctor pleads guilty to sexual assaults
By Associated Press
November 22, 2017 | 11:20am

LANSING, Mich. — A sports doctor accused of molesting girls while working for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University pleaded guilty Wednesday to multiple charges of sexual assault and will face at least 25 years in prison.

Dr. Larry Nassar, 54, was charged with molesting seven girls, mostly under the guise of treatment at his Lansing-area home and a campus clinic. All but one of his accusers were gymnasts. He faces similar charges in a neighboring county and lawsuits filed by more than 125 women and girls.

Olympic gymnasts Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Gabby Douglas are among the women who have publicly said they were among Nassar’s victims.

Some of his accusers attended the hearing Wednesday in a packed Ingham County courtroom. Some were crying.

Nassar admitted digitally penetrating the victims and agreed that his conduct had no legitimate medical purpose and that he did not have the girls’ consent.

The plea deal in Ingham County calls for a minimum prison sentence of 25 years, but a judge could set the minimum sentence as high as 40 years. In Michigan, inmates are eligible for parole after serving a minimum sentence.

Sentencing was set for Jan. 12.

The girls have testified that Nassar molested them with his hands, sometimes when a parent was present in the room, while they sought help for gymnastics injuries.

“He convinced these girls that this was some type of legitimate treatment,” Assistant Attorney General Angela Poviliatis told a judge last summer. “Why would they question him? Why would they question this gymnastics god?”

Separately, Nassar is charged with similar crimes in Eaton County, the location of an elite gymnastics club. He also is awaiting sentencing in federal court on child pornography charges.

The Michigan criminal cases against Nassar followed reports last year in the Indianapolis Star about how USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians, mishandled complaints about sexual misconduct involving the doctor and coaches. Women and girls said the stories inspired them to step forward with detailed allegations of abuse, sometimes when their parents were in the exam room at Michigan State.

 

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McKayla Maroney: USA Gymnastics tried silencing me over molestation
By Jaclyn Hendricks
December 20, 2017 | 12:55pm | Updated

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Olympic medalist McKayla Maroney alleges USA Gymnastics tried to silence her for almost a year by making her sign non-disclosure agreements as part of a financial settlement, which she used to pay for psychological treatment, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in California’s Superior Court, per NBC News.

The agreement was allegedly signed months before the initial accusations against former Team USA doctor Dr. Larry Nassar surfaced. He pleaded guilty in November to multiple charges of sexual assault before being sentenced to 60 years in prison the following month in a separate child pornography case.

“Plaintiff alleges that Defendant USAG had a plan to keep the sexual abuse of [ Dr. Larry] Nassar quiet, and allow Nassar to quietly leave USAG, further silence his victims,” the court docs claim.

Maroney’s lawsuit also alleges USA Gymnastics wanted a confidentiality accord so “it could further conceal and shield from public scrutiny, outside investigation, and law enforcement, the true nature of Nassar’s horrific sexual abuse of minors.”

Her suit also alleges Nassar would photograph Maroney under the guise of treatment.

“Nassar would continuously, obsessively and compulsively photograph McKayla Maroney and is believed to have possessed thousands of photographs of McKayla Maroney competing in gymnastics events, training, in everyday situations,” the suit alleges.

“McKayla Maroney alleges that she believes photographs were taken of her while Nassar was sexually abusing her under the guise of treatment. McKayla Maroney is further informed and believes, and on that basis alleges, that these photographs were shared by Nassar with other pedophiles for their sexual gratification.”

Maroney has continual “distress, anxiety and depression” as she worries that Nassar’s photographs might still be circulating among pedophiles on the internet, according to her complaint.

The 22-year-old gymnast made allegations against Nassar earlier this year, with 2012 Olympic teammates Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas later revealing their stories of abuse at Nassar’s hands. In letters sent to the judge presiding over Nassar’s case in Grand Rapids, Mich., Maroney’s mother, Erin, alleged her daughter had become suicidal as a result of the years of abuse.

“She has transformed from a bubbly, positive, loving, world-class athlete into a young adult who was deeply depressed, at times suicidal. At times, I was unsure whether I would open her bedroom door and find her dead,” Erin wrote, in letters obtained by ESPN.

The lawsuit came hours after reports that Nassar was allowed to treat patients for 16 months while under criminal investigation for sexual misconduct in 2014, records show.

USA Gymnastics praised Maroney’s courage in a tweet on her birthday, Dec. 9.

 

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Fat, Ugly Chrissy Teigen: I’ll pay McKayla Maroney’s $100K fine to speak up
By Lindsey Kupfer
January 16, 2018 | 4:30pm

McKayla Maroney and Chrissy Teigen
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If McKayla Maroney decides to speak at disgraced Team USA doctor Larry Nassar’s sentencing this week, Chrissy Teigen says she would be “honored” to pick up a $100,000 fine the former Olympic gymnast may have to pay for breaking a nondisclosure agreement.

Maroney, who won a gold medal as part of the “Fierce Five” team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, revealed in October 2017 that she’d been abused by the team doctor, Nassar, from age 13 until she left the sport in 2016.

In December, Maroney filed a lawsuit against the United States Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics and Michigan State claiming that in a 2016 settlement she was “forced to agree to a nondisparagement clause and confidentiality provision,” which would fine her $100,000 if she spoke out about her abuser.

“The entire principle of this should be fought,” Teigen tweeted on Tuesday as Nassar’s sentencing hearing began. “An NDA to stay quiet about this serial monster with over 140 accusers, but I would be absolutely honored to pay this fine for you, McKayla.”

Producer/writer Michael Schur and actress Kristen Bell chimed in with their support later Tuesday, with Schur offering to split the amount with Teigen and Bell to divide it into thirds.

After revealing what happened to her in October, it’s possible the former gymnast has already violated the NDA, but it’s unclear whether USA Gymnastics has made a move to fine her.

Maroney reportedly received $1.25 million in the settlement and USA Gymnastics responded to her lawsuit, “Contrary to reports, the concept of confidentiality was initiated by McKayla’s attorney, not USA Gymnastics.”

Over 100 women have accused Nassar of sexual abuse, including members of last year’s US Olympic team, Aly Raisman, Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas.

 

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Former Sports Doctor Larry Nassar Sentenced To 40 To 125 Years In Prison
February 5, 2018 at 11:26 am

CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) — The former sports doctor whose serial sexual abuse of girls and young women upended the gymnastics world was sentenced Monday to a third prison term of 40 to 125 years behind bars for molesting young athletes at an elite Michigan training center.

Larry Nassar listened to dozens of victims for two days last week and was almost attacked by a man whose three daughters said they were abused. He pleaded guilty to penetrating young athletes with ungloved hands when they sought treatment for injuries at Twistars, a gymnastics club that was run by a 2012 U.S. Olympic coach.

Nassar’s conduct “has robbed these girls and women of one of the most truly important human qualities: trust,” Judge Janice Cunningham said.

The sentence is largely symbolic because the 54-year-old is already assured of spending the rest of his life in prison. Before serving either of his two state sentences, he must first serve 60 years in federal prison for child pornography crimes.

In addition to the sentence delivered Monday in Eaton County, Nassar was also sentenced last month to 40 to 175 years for similar conduct in another county. Those sentences would be served at the same time.

In a brief statement before he was sentenced, Nassar attempted to apologize to his victims.

“It’s impossible to convey the breadth and depth of how sorry I am to each and every one,” he said.

Nassar worked for Michigan State and USA Gymnastics, the sport’s governing body, which also trains Olympians.

More than 260 women and girls say they were victims, some going back to the 1990s. The judge said the abuse “spans the country and the world.”

On Friday, Randy Margraves was tackled by sheriff’s deputies before he could pummel Nassar in court. He said he wanted just a minute in a locked room with the “demon.”

“This cannot be a lawless society. I know that,” Margraves told reporters during a public apology. “I lost control, but I gained control later in a holding cell.”

Most victims who wanted to speak publicly or submit a statement did so earlier during Nassar’s seven-day court hearing in Ingham County, including 2012 Olympic teammates Aly Raisman, Jordyn Wieber and McKayla Maroney.

The scandal has rocked Michigan State, which has been accused of repeatedly missing opportunities to stop Nassar, who had a campus office and was a revered figure in sports medicine.

Lou Anna Simon resigned as Michigan State’s president on Jan. 24 and athletic director Mark Hollis followed two days later.

The longtime leader of USA Gymnastics, Steve Penny, quit last March, and all board members recently stepped down at the demand of the U.S. Olympic Committee. A law firm has been hired to investigate how the USOC responded to its knowledge of allegations against Nassar.

 

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Larry Nassar’s boss hit with his own sex charges against students
By Joshua Rhett Miller
March 27, 2018 | 12:15pm

William Strampel, a former dean at Michigan State, allegedly had sick photos on his computer. AP


A former dean at Michigan State University who oversaw disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar is facing criminal charges for allegedly grabbing a medical student’s backside and storing photos showing “bare vaginas” and nude women on his work computer — many of which appear to be “selfies” of female MSU students, authorities said.

William Strampel, who served as dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine from 2002 until December, also solicited nude photos from at least one student, according to an affidavit posted Tuesday by the Michigan Attorney General’s Office. Strampel is expected to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon on four charges, including a felony count of misconduct in office, fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and two counts of willful neglect of duty.

Strampel, 70, who was arrested Monday, failed to protect students and athletes after a Title IX case placed restrictions on Nassar, according to the affidavit.

“Despite his representation of his (and the College) intended response to the allegations against Nassar, Strampel did not actually enforce or monitor the protocols, nor did he alert other employees in the sports medicine clinic about the existence of the protocols, let alone order that they be followed with respect to Nassar,” the affidavit said.

The felony criminal sexual conduct charge relates to an incident in 2010 during the college’s annual ball, when Strampel allegedly approached a woman from behind and grabbed her right buttock. The woman later told police she didn’t report the incident at the time because she “did not want to be thrown out of medical school,” according to the affidavit.

An examination of Strampel’s work computer also revealed roughly 50 photos of “bare vaginas, nude and semi-nude women, sex toys, and pornography,” the document states.

“Many of these photos are of what appear to be ‘selfies’ of female MSU students, as evidenced by the MSU clothing and piercings featured in multiple photos,” according to the affidavit. “Forensic examination shows that someone attempted to delete some of the photos contained in a file folder on the computer’s hard drive.”

Investigators also found pornographic videos and footage of Nassar performing “treatment” on a young female patient. One of the videos, apparently taken in October 2013, depicted a female masturbating at a “very close perspective,” according to the affidavit.

In all, investigators identified four victims connected with the allegations, including one student at the college who said she was summoned by Strampel to meet him in his office after falling asleep in class in 2011. Strampel directed her toward a chair but told her not to sit before instructing her to turn around in a circle twice so he could check out her figure, according to the affidavit.

Another medical student said she met Strampel in 2014 to discuss an exam and claimed he scanned her body aggressively, making her feel uncomfortable. She retook the exam and came one point short of a passing grade, requiring her to meet with Strampel again. He suggested during that meeting that she consider a “Plan B,” perhaps as a centerfold model, and reminding her that another female medical student at the school became a stripper to finance her education.

Strampel then agreed to let the student take the exam a third time, but said she would need to do whatever he wanted as a result.

“If he called on the weekend and told her to come to his house, she would have to do it,” the affidavit reads. “If he asked her to come ‘weed the garden,’ she would have to do it. Given the context, V-3 understood that she was being asked to do anything he wanted sexually in exchange for the favor.”

A fourth victim, meanwhile, told authorities of similar experiences and said she was “not surprised Nassar had been able to victimize so many women” under Strampel’s supervision.

Strampel is the first person charged in a probe into the handling of complaints against Nassar, who was sentenced in December to decades in prison on child porn charges. He remains in custody at a high-security federal prison in Arizona, the Detroit Free Press reports. He also faces decades behind bars in Ingham and Eaton counties, where he was charged with 10 sexual assaults.

In February, Michigan State’s interim president began the process of firing Strampel and removing his tenure for his failure to enforce protocols placed on Nassar after a sexual assault investigation in 2014. Strampel said he stepped down for medical reasons in December.

Strampel admitted to police last year that he failed to follow up after demanding that Nassar have a third party present when providing treatment “anything close to a sensitive area,” the Associated Press reports. Nassar was later fired in 2016 for violating that rule. Less than a month earlier, gymnast Rachael Denhollander accused Nassar of sexually assaulting her while treating her for back pain.

 

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McKayla Maroney reveals her Larry Nassar horror: ‘Hundreds’ of times
By Reuters
April 18, 2018 | 1:06pm

McKayla Maroney speaks at the 2018 Spring luncheon of The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children on April 17. AP


Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney says she was molested hundreds of times by former team doctor Larry Nassar.

Nassar, who worked as an osteopathic physician for USA Gymnastics and was a faculty member at Michigan State, was convicted in three courts of charges that included abusing his patients. More than 200 victims, including Maroney, spoke at his sentencing hearing.

Maroney, who made the statements in an NBC “Dateline” special that airs Sunday night, says the abuse began on the day she met Nassar and continued for the next five years.

“He told me he was going to do a checkup on me and that was the first day I was abused,” Maroney says in a preview released by NBC News.

Maroney, now 22, says she was 13 the first time she met Nassar and that he abused her every time she saw him thereafter.

“He said that nobody would understand this and the sacrifice that it takes to get to the Olympics. So you can’t tell people this,” Maroney continued.

“I actually was like, ‘That makes sense. I don’t want to tell anybody about this.’ I didn’t believe that they would understand.”

The special also features an interview with Bela and Martha Karolyi, the famed coaches whose training ranch is where Maroney first met Nassar. They have previously remained mum on the allegations against Nassar after denying any knowledge of his actions in 2016.

The ranch has since closed, but the allegations of abuse there are being investigated.

Nassar, 54, is serving a 60-year sentence at a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz., on child pornography charges. He has been sentenced to 40 to 175 years in one Michigan county and 40 to 125 years in another on sexual assault charges.

 

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Larry Nassar’s lawyers say he was attacked in prison
By Associated Press
July 25, 2018 | 2:27pm

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Attorneys for imprisoned former sports doctor Larry Nassar say he was assaulted in May after being released into the general population of a federal prison.

The Detroit News reports Wednesday that Nassar’s lawyers disclosed the assault in motions seeking that he be re-sentenced by a different judge for molesting young athletes.

Nassar is serving a 60-year child pornography sentence at the U.S. penitentiary in Tuscon, Arizona — the country’s only federal facility that is classified as high security and also has a sex offender management program. The legal motions do not specify the nature of the assault.

Nassar, 54, will be locked up for the rest of his life under decades-long sentences for molesting athletes with his hands and possessing child pornography.

 

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Ex-Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times in prison

Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times in altercation at federal prison in Florida.

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Ex-Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times in prison​

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July 10, 2023 8:42am
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Convicted child molester Larry Nassar was stabbed multiple times in the federal prison where he is serving hundreds of years for sexually assaulting gymnasts, including gold medal-winning Olympians, according to a report Monday.


Two people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press the attack happened Sunday during a fight with another inmate at the United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida.


He was stabbed in the back and in the chest but was said to be in stable condition, according to one of the sources.

Larry Nassar was stabbed multiple times in the federal prison where he is serving time for sexually assaulting gymnasts.AP
More than 300 girls and women, including Olympians like Aly Raisman and Simone Biles, accused the former Michigan State University sports doctor of sexually abusing them under the guise of medical treatment in a pattern of horrendous abuse that stretched back decades.


He eventually admitted sexually assaulting athletes at the university and USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians.


The abuse led to three separate prison sentences in state and federal trials.


Michigan Judge Rosemarie Aquilina even told Nassar it was her “honor and privilege to sentence” him to 40 to 175 years in prison in January 2018.

Olympians Aly Raisman and Simone Biles accused Nassar of sexually abusing them.AP
“I just signed your death warrant,” she told him. “You do not deserve to walk outside a prison ever again.”


More than 65 women then gave impact statements during a separate trial in which Nassar got a 40- to 125-year sentence for abusing young girls at the Twistars Gymnastics Club in Dimondale, Michigan.


During that trial, a raging father whose three daughters said they were all molested by Nassar tried to attack him in court.


Nassar was also sentenced to 60 years in federal prison on child pornography charges.





Michigan State Police arrested him in 2016, but the university was accused of missing many opportunities to detain the predator and agreed to a $500 million settlement with his victims.


USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee also agreed to a $380 million settlement for failing to protect their young athletes from Nassar’s abuse.