- ABC News
- July 11, 2017
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to three child pornography charges in federal court. Nassar, 53, and his attorneys entered a plea agreement with the court last week. The agreement suggests sentencing guidelines that, if applied by U.S. District Judge Janet Neff, would put Nassar in prison for 22 to 27 years. Judge Neff is not required to adhere to the sentencing guidelines laid out in the agreement. In the agreement, Nassar admitted to knowingly downloading images and videos containing child pornography in the fall of 2004. He admitted to possessing thousands of illegal images and videos from 2003 through 2016. He also admitted that he attempted to conceal or destroy evidence of those images by paying to have his work laptop wiped clean and by throwing hard drives containing pornographic images in the trash in September 2016. He said he was aware that he was under investigation for criminal...