Sex offender Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times in prison

Former US nationalist gymnastics squad doc Larry Nassar was stabbed aggregate times successful situation connected Sunday during a combat with different inmate, the BBC's US spouse CBS News reports.

Nassar, 59, was sentenced to up to 175 years successful situation for molesting gymnasts.

He is reportedly successful infirmary successful unchangeable information aft the Sunday attack.

He suffered a collapsed lung aft being stabbed doubly successful the neck, doubly successful the backmost and six times successful the chest, a situation national person told NBC.

In a connection to the BBC, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said an inmate had been assaulted astatine 14:35 EST (18:35 GMT) connected Sunday astatine United States Penitentiary Coleman successful Florida, wherever the disgraced erstwhile doc is serving time.

"Responding unit instantly initiated life-saving measures", the bureau said, and the inmate was taken to a section infirmary "for further attraction and evaluation". An interior probe has been launched.

No unit oregon different inmates were injured successful the incident.

Nassar admitted to sexually assaulting athletes portion helium worked with the USA Gymnastics programme and Michigan State University, wherever helium maintained a clinic.

The erstwhile doc - who has been serving clip astatine a national situation successful Florida - besides pleaded blameworthy to possession of kid pornography.

More than 330 women and girls astatine USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University person accused Nassar of intersexual abuse.

Olympic golden medallists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney person each testified astir surviving Nassar's abuse.

Some of the young athletes said they had travel guardant astir the maltreatment to adults, including coaches and doctors, but were dismissed.

An probe into the FBI's handling of the scandal, published successful 2021, recovered the bureau made a bid of missteps, including delays and cover-ups, which allowed Nassar's maltreatment to proceed for respective much months aft the lawsuit was archetypal opened.

The agency's ain watchdog recovered the FBI disregarded allegations astir Nassar and made aboriginal errors successful its investigation.

Several women who were sexually assaulted by Nassar - including Raisman, Biles and Maroney - person sued the FBI for $1bn (£783m) for mishandling credible complaints of intersexual assault.

USA Gymnastics has agreed to wage $380m to Nassar's victims, portion Michigan State reached a $500m colony with survivors.