DOJ announced to pay $138.7 million compensation to Larry Nassar’s victims

Prerna Sharma
Posted by Prerna Sharma April 24, 2024
DOJ announced to pay $138.7 million compensation to Larry Nassar's victims
Former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar listens during the sentencing phase in Eaton, County Circuit Court on January 31, 2018 in Charlotte, Michigan. The number of identified sexual abuse victims of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has grown to 265, a Michigan judge announced Wednesday as a final sentencing hearing commenced. Prosecutors said at least 65 victims were to confront Nassar in court, in the last of three sentencing hearings for the disgraced doctor who molested young girls and women for two decades in the guise of medical treatment. / AFP PHOTO / JEFF KOWALSKY (Photo credit should read JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

The Department of Justice announced to pay $138.7 million as settlement to hundreds of victims of convicted USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar on Tuesday. The allegation were put on the FBI when they failed to investigate accusations of sexual misconduct and abuse.

On charges of sexual assault, a former physician with Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics is serving a 40 to 175-year prison. This settlement have it base from an April 2022 when 13 women and girls filed sexual assault report Nassar and during that time FBI failed to adequately investigate the allegations they made in 2015- one year before Nassar’s arrest.

The watchdog report found the FBI had already notified about Nassar’s behavior but do not took any action for more than 14 months, during which Nassar have abused at least 40 more girls and women.

Nassar was declared guilty in 2017 for child pornography and other charges for 60 years. He was again sentenced to 40 to 175 years prison charges in January 2018 regarding the same. These charges were followed by a 2016 IndyStar investigation into various cases of sexual assault.