Nassar Loses Sexual Abuse Appeal, Also Moved into Max Security Prison
Larry Nassar keeps trying to find his way out of prison after being tried and convicted of multiple sexual assaults of girls and young women in his care while he was team physician for USA Gymnastics at Michigan State University.
And every time he has tried to seek redress through the appeals process, the courts have upheld the verdict against him.
Meanwhile, the man himself is seen as such an egregious offender that the federal prison system has seen fit to transfer him to the same maximum-security facility in Florida that once held infamous mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger.
Granted, how much of that is protecting the outside world from Larry Nassar and how much of that is protecting Nassar from his fellow inmates remains an open question. In the prison hierarchy, those who commit sex offenses against children are the lowest of the low, and Nassar was allegedly attacked in May when he was in prison in Arizona.
In any event, Nassar traded the desert for the swamp.
The facility, USP Coleman II, is described as a “special needs” prison where inmates at higher risk of being shanked by their fellow prisoners reportedly get greater attention and security from the guards against freelance executioners.
Meanwhile, back in Michigan, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina — who initially said she “just signed your death warrant” when her sentence of 40 to 175 years in prison all but guaranteed the 55-year-old Nassar would die in prison of old age if another inmate didn’t finish the job first — saw her sentence affirmed in the appeals process.
After Nassar’s appellate lawyers agreed to a deal in which the sentence was upheld, Aquilina couldn’t resist a barb at Nassar’s expense.
“This is not Burger King,” the judge said. “He will not have it his way.”
Aquilina went on to say, “He has continued to show a lack of remorse, a lack of any ability to be reformed. Society will not be protected if he is ever outside of a prison facility.”
On top of the 40-year minimum sentence Aquilina dished out, Nassar is also serving 60 years on federal child porn charges.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Nassar is at USP Coleman II in Sumterville, 50 miles outside of Orlando.
The place may be 50 miles from Disney World, but for Larry Nassar, it may as well be 50 light years away.
For a man whose existence now is so often confined to a 48-square-foot cell, it’s a small world after all.
Meanwhile, his victims can take comfort in knowing that the only place for Nassar to go from a 6-by-8-foot cell is into a 3-by-8-foot grave.
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