Disgraced Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been quietly removed from the Michigan Sex Offender Registry list.
Nassar, who served as team doctor for the national gymnastics team from 1996 to 2014, used his position to exploit hundreds of young athletes, including medal-winning Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles and Aly Raisman.
He is currently serving multiple prison sentences lasting decades after being convicted on multiple counts of sexual abuse and child pornography.
According to the Eaton County (Michigan) Prosecutor’s Office, he is among more than 20,000 people whose names have been removed from the sex offender list after the Michigan State Police recently purged thousands of individuals from the database whose crimes happened before July 1, 2011.
A Michigan Supreme Court ruling on September 9 said that amendments to the Sex offender Registration Act issued in 2021 cannot be used to retroactively require registration due to older incidents, leading to the purge of the database.
The registry is intended to ‘assist the public’ with preventing future criminal sexual acts by convicted sex offenders, according to Michigan State Police, and typically lists a legal name, photo, primary address, work address, age, physical description and court with records relevant to the criminal conviction.
Larry Nasser has been quietly removed from the Michigan Sex Offenders Registry List
Nasser is serving decades in prison after being convicted of multiple crimes
‘His conduct occurred before 2011 despite his convictions coming after,’ said The Eaton County Prosecutor’s Office, confirming his removal, per CBS News.
The prosecutor’s office claimed the Supreme Court could have applied for a different interpretation and allowed for certain sex offenders to stay on the list.
More than 150 gymnasts were abused by Nassar during his 30-year career.
Nassar admitted to sexually assaulting the athletes when he worked at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics.
The doctor also admitted to possessing child pornography, and more than 100 women sought over $1billion from the federal government for the FBI’s failure to stop him.
He was sentenced in federal court in 2017 to 60 years in prison on charges of possessing child sex abuse material. The following year, Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years and up to 125 years, respectively, in two separate Michigan courts for molesting female gymnasts under his care.
In April, the US Justice Department announced a $138.7 million settlement with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against Nassar in 2015 and 2016, a critical time gap that allowed the sports doctor to continue to prey on victims before his arrest.
When combined with other settlements, $1billion now has been set aside by various organizations to compensate hundreds of women who said Nassar assaulted them under the guise of treatment for sports injuries.
Olympic icon Simone Biles was among Nasser’s long list of hundreds of victims
Simone Biles publicly broke her silence in January 2018, revealing in a powerful tweet that she was one of Nassar’s victims.
‘It took me a long time to write that, probably a couple of days, because every time I would go to write, I would start balling, and I couldn’t get through it,’ she said.
Biles also noted that she was heartbroken over having to continue to train at the ranch, the former USA Gymnastics national training center where she and her teammates were abused by the disgraced doctor.
