Ex-Team USA Gymnastics doctor is jailed for 60 years for possessing more than 37,000 child porn images
Ex-Team USA Gymnastics doctor who ‘molested Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney’ is jailed for 60 years for possessing more than 37,000 child porn images
- Larry Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in prison for child pornography
- The 54-year-old was a long-serving doctor for the USA Gymnastics team
- He pleaded guilty in July to three counts of possessing child pornography
- He is also facing sentencing for sexually assaulting members of the USA women’s Olympic gymnastics team
- Gold medalists McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas were among the gymnasts who claim they were assaulted by Nassar
Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Thursday for child pornography.
Nassar, 54, who is also facing sentencing for sexually assaulting members of the women’s Olympics gymnastics team, pleaded guilty in July to three counts of possessing child pornography.
The pornography, which included more than 37,000 of images and videos depicting children as young as infants, was discovered last year while Nassar was under investigation for assault.
He was given 20 years in prison on each count by a judge at a court hearing in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
‘This is very difficult, as you can imagine, standing here,’ Nassar said in court on Thursday.
‘I’ve been battling with this, obviously for a considerable period of time. It’s something, your honor, I’m very ashamed of… I’ve lost everything because of this… You wonder how I got down this path to begin with.’