Sicko sports doc Larry Nassar was stabbed in his cell away from prison cameras: insider
The brutal prison attack on sicko sports doctor Larry Nassar was inside his cell — and out of sight of cameras, according to an insider.
The child molester who sexually abused hundreds of gymnasts — including leading Olympians — was stabbed at least 10 times with a makeshift weapon inside his federal prison in Florida on Sunday.
But it is deemed an “unwitnessed event” because it was inside a cell, the main blind spot for cameras inside the high-security lockup, according to an insider.
Surveillance cameras otherwise scan corridors and common areas, although it was not immediately clear if they caught the attacker — thought to be another prisoner — entering the cell.
The stabbing was the second time the 59-year-old pedophile has been attacked since getting sentenced to hundreds of years in prison in three different trials for molesting young athletes and possessing child porn.
He was assaulted in May 2018 — months after his sentencing was finished — when he was sent to the general population of his initial federal lockup in Tucson, Arizona.
The nature of that attack was never revealed, but Nassar was soon moved to Florida, where he was kept in a special unit with other sex offenders, insiders have said.
The latest attack came just two weeks after the Florida prison’s union held a protest over dangerous understaffing.
“They’re going to have somebody killed, either staff or an inmate, if they don’t fix the problem,” said Local 506 president Joe Rojas, a New York native who’s worked at the prison for nearly 30 years.
“We sounded the alarm, we warned the public, and I hate to be prophetic, but we were right.”
The stabbing also came just weeks after “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s suicide at a North Carolina federal medical center — and amid lingering fallout from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 suicide in his Manhattan lockup, which was also not caught on cameras and was blamed in part of staffing woes.
“This kind of violence in our federal prisons is inexcusable,” said Daniel Landsman, deputy director of policy at the criminal justice advocacy group Families Against Mandatory Minimums.
“The failures that led to [Nassar’s] assault are not isolated — too often we see similar incidents impact incarcerated people across the country.”
The Federal Bureau of Prisons earlier confirmed that an inmate at the Federal Correctional Complex Coleman needed “life-saving” treatment after an attack just after 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
A spokesperson refused to confirm it was Nassar, citing privacy restrictions.
However, Rojas, the union president, previously confirmed to The Post that Nassar suffered a punctured lung when he was stabbed twice in the neck, twice in the back and six times in the chest.
Nassar was reported to have been in stable condition on Monday.
The Bureau of Prisons did not immediately respond to a request seeking an update on his condition Wednesday. It also did not respond Tuesday to questions over concerns about violence and low staffing levels plaguing its facilities.
At Nassar’s prison, nearly one-quarter of correctional officer positions are vacant, records show.
Staffing guidelines show the facility, with more than 1,200 prisoners, should have 222 correctional officers. Only 169 positions are filled.
The day Nassar was stabbed, 44 posts were left vacant and unassigned at the prison, the records show. One of the officers assigned to Nassar’s unit was working a third straight 16-hour day, while the other officer was on a second straight day of mandated overtime.
More than 300 girls and women, including Olympians like Aly Raisman and Simone Biles, accused the former Michigan State University sports doctor of sexually abusing them under the guise of medical treatment in a pattern of horrendous abuse that stretched back decades.
He eventually admitted sexually assaulting athletes at the university and USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians.
One of the three judges who heard his despicable tales of abuse even said it was her “honor and privilege to sentence” him to 40 to 175 years in prison in January 2018.
“I just signed your death warrant,” Michigan Judge Rosemarie Aquilina told him. “You do not deserve to walk outside a prison ever again.”
He is listed as being eligible for release from federal prison on Jan. 30, 2068 — when he would be 104.
If still alive, he would then die in state prison on the other charges.
With Post wires
