Larry Nassar, the disgraced doctor convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed twice in the neck, twice in the back, and six times in the chest during an altercation with another inmate in federal prison and somehow managed to survive.

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As of Monday, it’s being reported that Nassar is in stable condition after surviving the attack. Nassar also suffered a collapsed lung during the assault, said Joe Rojas, president of Local 506, which represents employees at the Federal Correctional Complex Coleman in Central Florida, according to NBC News.

Two sources told the Associated Press that the incident happened Sunday at the United States Penitentiary Coleman. They spoke to the media outlet on condition of anonymity.

Nassar, 59, was sentenced to decades behind bars after being convicted in state and federal courts of sexually abusing female athletes. He admitted to sexually assaulting them when he worked at Michigan State University and at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, which trains athletes for the Olympics. He also pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.

In 2018, during victim impact statements, more than 150 athletes testified concerning Nassar’s sexual abuse against them. That went on for more than two decades despite the girls telling adults, including coaches and athletic trainers, that he was assaulting them.

Ex Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, serving decades in prison for sexually assaulting scores of athletes, has been stabbed multiple times by a fellow inmate at a Florida federal prison. pic.twitter.com/acdV5QN23i

— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) July 10, 2023

In the end, over 100 women, including Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, sued the federal government for over $1 billion concerning the FBI’s failure to stop Nassar after becoming aware of his alleged activities in 2015. The doctor was finally arrested by Michigan State University police in 2016, over a year after that.

According to the Associated Press, “The Justice Department’s inspector general said in July 2021 that the FBI made ‘fundamental’ errors in investigating the sexual abuse allegations against Nassar and did not treat the case with the ‘utmost seriousness.’ More athletes said they were molested before the FBI swung into action.”

“The inspector general’s investigation was spurred by allegations that the FBI failed to promptly address complaints made in 2015 against Nassar. USA Gymnastics had conducted its own internal investigation, and the organization’s then-president, Stephen Penny, reported the allegations to the FBI’s field office in Indianapolis. But it took months before the bureau opened a formal investigation,” the media outlet continued.

At least 40 girls and women accused the doctor of sexually molesting them over a 14-month period after the FBI became aware of his other abuses. After FBI agents in Indianapolis failed to do anything for eight months, officials at USA Gymnastics contacted the FBI in Los Angeles in May 2016. The agency wound up admitting the conduct by its agents was “inexcusable and a discredit” to the FBI.

Larry Nassar Stabbed multiple times in altercation:

I’m Surprised it took this long. Sex offenders aren’t well suited for Federal Prison unless they’re placed in a SOMP facility. pic.twitter.com/zhnL5jK1wV

— Bozinator 0811 (@ArmaLite15OU812) July 10, 2023

Michigan State agreed to pay $500 million to over 300 women and girls who were assaulted by Nassar after failing to stop him. USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee made a $380 million settlement as well.

Nassar appealed the ruling against him, but in June 2022, the Michigan Supreme Court rejected his final appeal. Attorneys had appealed over his sentencing in 2018 by a judge who called him a “monster” who would “wither” in prison like the wicked witch in “The Wizard of Oz.”

“I just signed your death warrant,” Ingham County Judge Rosemarie Aquilina told Nassar as she sentenced him to 40 years.

“It’s over. … Almost six years after I filed the police report, it’s finally over,” Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse Nassar, said as he was sentenced according to the Associated Press.

There was not a lot of sympathy for Nassar on Twitter:

Larry Nassar getting some of that “jail justice”.

— Oh Bette (@bette_oh) July 10, 2023

he should suffer for a while until he finally succumbs to his wounds.

— TX Mom (@TXMom83306688) July 10, 2023

pic.twitter.com/Wq7qdiAh0k

— Steven Thomas (@tom__builder) July 10, 2023

Those prisoners doing God’s work

— The Kid (@sshaf91) July 10, 2023

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy… Honestly, I’m surprised it took this long.

— Douglas Cline (@DouglasCline2) July 10, 2023

Something both sides can rally behind. Progress.

— Lawrence (@GetOutMyKitchn) July 10, 2023

As someone who has friends from the USA Gymnastics world, I prefer to think of it as “he was penetrated with the same consent as his former patients “

— Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (@mwilliams433) July 10, 2023

Payback is a “bitch”.

— Brenda AKA Alexander The Great (@SmellyCat2Sunny) July 10, 2023

Twitter’s feel good story of the week.

— Ragnar Danneskjold (@FreeDanneskjold) July 10, 2023

If proper justice isn’t handed down on the outside, sometimes it gets carried out on the inside, just ask Jeffrey Dahmer.

— Larry Miller (@LarrymillerIA) July 10, 2023

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