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\n Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced on Thursday for possession of child pornography. He is pictured here in court in Lansing, Mich., last month.<\/p>\n

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Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, who has admitted to sexually assaulting minors, has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for child pornography.<\/p>\n

“You have to wonder whether he felt he was omnipotent, whether he felt he was getting away with something so cleverly,” U.S. District Judge Janet Neff said Thursday in a Grand Rapids, Mich., courtroom, according <\/a>to the Lansing State Journal<\/em>. “He has demonstrated that he should never again have access to children.”<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors had sought the 60-year sentence, which is the maximum under sentencing guidelines. “The government said he had 37,000 images of child pornography, including images of children as young as infants,” MLive reports<\/a>. Nassar had pleaded guilty in July<\/a> to three federal counts of possessing and receiving child pornography, and obstruction of justice for attempting to destroy evidence.<\/p>\n

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Nassar, 54, still awaits sentencing in two separate state cases in which he admitted to sexually assaulting women and girls, primarily during medical appointments. <\/p>\n

On Nov. 22, he pleaded guilty<\/a> in Michigan court to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving seven victims, after maintaining for more than a year that his medical treatments had been legitimate. A week later, Nassar pleaded guilty in another court to three counts<\/a> of first-degree criminal sexual conduct related to assaults at the Twistars gymnastics club near Lansing. The state cases involve nine young women; one of the victims is part of both. Plea deals in the cases suggest a minimum sentence of 25 to 40 years and a maximum of life in prison, the State Journal<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n