Larry Nassar: Ex-USA Gymnastics doctor gets up to 125 more years in prison for abuse
ByReuters
Updated 05/02/2018 at 15:05 GMT
Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to an additional 40 to 125 years in prison in a Michigan courtroom on Monday for sexually abusing young female gymnasts, following an earlier sentence of up to 175 years last month.
Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to 175 years in prison for abuse of young women
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The case against Nassar has sparked investigations into how U.S. Olympic officials, the sport's governing body USA Gymnastics, and Michigan State University, where he also worked, failed to investigate complaints about him going back years.
Nassar, who is also serving a 60-year federal sentence for child pornography convictions, pleaded guilty to two sets of molestation charges in Michigan's Ingham and Eaton counties.
The fallout has rattled Michigan State and led to the resignation of the school's president Lou Anna Simon.
Faculty leaders at Michigan State are moving to hold a no-confidence vote against the university's Board of Trustees, the Lansing State Journal reported on Sunday.
The newspaper said a ballot was emailed over the weekend to 2,776 faculty members who belong to the university's Academic Congress. The majority — nearly 87 percent of those who responded — called for a no-confidence vote in the trustees at an upcoming Faculty Senate meeting.
A time and date for that emergency meeting has not yet been determined, it said.
In the latest fallout from the scandal, Valeri Liukin, coordinator of the US women's gymnastics team, said on Friday he was resigning.
In a statement cited by NBC News, Liukin said, "The present climate causes me, and more importantly my family, far too much stress, difficulty and uncertainty."
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