Larry Nassar, the disgraced former sports doctor for USA Gymnastics and other Olympic sports who is serving a life prison sentence for assaulting female athletes under the guise of treatment and child pornography, was never on the Michigan sex offender registry, according to Michigan State Police.
The clarification from the Michigan State Police came on Friday after viral reports surfaced that Nassar’s name was removed from the sex offender registry after a ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court last month.
On Sept. 9, the Court ruled that amendments to the Sex Offender Registration Act can’t be used to retroactively extend registration requirements for anyone whose offense occurred before July 1, 2011.
Anyone whose crimes occurred before that date was removed from the system.
While Nassar was sentenced on federal charges of child pornography in December 2017 and state charges of criminal sexual conduct in January 2018, his crimes occurred before July 1, 2011.
Initially, Nassar’s name was mentioned as of one of more than 20,000 registered sex offenders who had been removed from the registry.
According to CBS Detroit, Nassar is serving his sentence in Pennsylvania, and state police clarified that those who are convicted but not currently living, working, going to school or incarcerated in Michigan “do not have the duty to register in Michigan under Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry Act (SORA) and would not be visible on Michigan’s public Sex Offender Registry (SOR).”
More than 160 women testified in court accusing Nassar of sexual abuse during his trial, one of which was a swimmer, Marie Anderson.
On Jan. 19, 2018, Anderson testified that she was assaulted by Nassar while she was a 15-year-old youth swimmer who was receiving treatment for lower back issues.
In addition to his time with USA gymnastics and other Olympic sports, Nassar was a faculty member at Michigan State University.
