Lawrence Gerard Nassar was born on August 16, 1963, and is an American serial child rapist and former sports medicine physician.
For 18 years, he was the team doctor of the United States women’s national gymnastics team, where he used his position to exploit, deceive, and sexually assault hundreds of children and young women.
Nassar’s sexual abuse of young girls and women and the subsequent cover-up led to the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal that began in 2015, alleging that Nassar repeatedly sexually assaulted at least 265 young women and girls under the guise of medical treatment. His victims included numerous Olympic and United States women’s national gymnastics team gymnasts.
Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison on December 7, 2017, after pleading guilty to child pornography and tampering with evidence charges on July 11, 2017.
On January 24, 2018, Nassar was sentenced to an additional 40 to 175 years in Michigan State Prison after pleading guilty in Ingham County to seven counts of sexual assault.
On February 5, 2018, he was sentenced to an additional 40 to 125 years in Michigan State Prison after pleading guilty to an additional three counts of sexual assault in Eaton County.
On the orders of the judge in charge of the federal case, his state prison sentences are to run consecutively with his federal sentence, ensuring a de facto sentence of life imprisonment without parole.
Nassar will be transferred to a Michigan state prison when he is released from federal custody; his two state sentences will be served concurrently. He is a central figure in the 2020 film Athlete A, a documentary about the scandal.
Larry Nassar Children: Meet Katelyn Nassar, Caroline Nassar, and Ryan Nassar
From 1996 to 2017, Nassar was married to his wife, Stefanie, and the couple had three children together. Nassar lived in Holt, Michigan at the time of his December 2016 arrest.
The couple separated after he was arrested on suspicion of sex crimes, and his wife was granted a divorce in July 2017, gaining full custody of their three children.
Larry Nassar is blessed with three children; a son named Ryan Nassar and two daughters; Katelyn Nassar and Caroline Nassar.