Disgraced Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was never on Michigan’s sex offender registry, it has emerged. It was reported earlier this week that Nassar, who served as team doctor for the national gymnastics team from 1996 to 2014, had been quietly removed from the state’s registry. However, Michigan State Police have now disputed that claim, revealing that the serial sexual abuser was not on the list in the first place.’Information suggesting that convicted sex offender Nassar was removed from the Sex Offender Registry (SOR) by the Michigan State Police (MSP) because of the Smith decision is incorrect,’ Lori Dougovito, a spokeswoman for Michigan State Police, told The Daily Mail in a statement.In Michigan, only sex offenders living in the state are required to comply with and appear on its sex offender registry. ‘Offenders not currently domiciled, temporarily residing, working, incarcerated, or going to school 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),’ Dougovito added. Michigan State Police have disputed a report that disgraced Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar (pictured) was removed from the state’s sex offender registry Nasser is serving decades in prison after being convicted of multiple crimes ‘Should the offender later domicile (including being incarcerated), temporarily reside, work, or go to school in Michigan, they would be expected to register and be placed on Michigan’s public SOR if still required under SORA at that time.’ Nassar is currently being housed at FCI Lewisburg in Pennsylvania. He has served time in federal, out-of-state prisons since pleading guilty in 2017. Should he return to a prison in Michigan, Nassar will then be entered onto the state’s sex offender registry, police confirmed. Nassar, a former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor, used his position to exploit hundreds of young athletes, including medal-winning Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles and Aly Raisman.He is currently serving multiple prison sentences lasting decades after being convicted on multiple counts of sexual abuse and child pornography in both federal and state court.Nassar’s federal conviction in 2017 on child pornography charges carried a 60-year sentence. Should he survive to serve the full sentence, he will then be required to serve 40 to 175 years in Michigan prisons on seven state-level sexual assault charges in Ingham County. He also faces a 40-year to 125-year prison sentence in Eaton County on additional sexual assault charges.Speculation that he had been removed from Michigan’s sex offender registry began earlier this week following a social media announcement from the Eaton County (Michigan) Prosecutor’s Office. Nassar is pictured in court during his sentencing hearing in Michigan in January 2018 Nassar, a former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor, used his position to exploit hundreds of young athletes, including Team USA gymnasts The post claimed that the 63-year-old Nassar was among more than 20,000 people whose names have been removed from the sex offender list after the Michigan State Police recently purged thousands of individuals from the database whose crimes happened before July 1, 2011. A Michigan Supreme Court ruling on September 9 said that amendments to the Sex Offender Registration Act issued in 2021 cannot be used to retroactively require registration due to older incidents, leading to the purge of the database.The prosecutor’s office wrote on social media that: ‘The Michigan Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate SORA requirements for these offenders is deeply concerning. Our community, along with the victims of these crimes, expected the registry to provide a measure of protection and awareness – assurances that have now been removed by the Court’s ruling.’The registry is intended to ‘assist the public’ with preventing future criminal sexual acts by convicted sex offenders, according to Michigan State Police, and typically lists a legal name, photo, primary address, work address, age, physical description and court with records relevant to the criminal conviction. The Eaton County Prosecutor’s Office issued a statement on Friday, correcting its original post. ‘We must correct our earlier social media post about removal of convicted sex offenders from the Michigan Sex Offender Registry,’ it wrote. ‘After reporting from the Detroit News, it appears that Larry Nassar was never actually registered under the Michigan Sex Offender Registry. ‘We never contemplated that one of the most notorious sex offenders in the history of the state would not have been registered despite the law requiring otherwise. In our experience, when a sex offender is sentenced to a term of incarceration, they are listed in the Michigan Sex Offender Registry as being “incarcerated” and complaint (sic). That status does not change until the offender is released from custody, at which time the entity incarcerating the individual ensures the registry is updated.’More than 150 gymnasts were abused by Nassar during his 30-year career. Nassar admitted to sexually assaulting the athletes when he worked at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics. Olympic icon Simone Biles was among Nasser’s long list of hundreds of victimsThe doctor also admitted to possessing child pornography, and more than 100 women sought over $1billion from the federal government for the FBI’s failure to stop him. He was sentenced in federal court in 2017 to 60 years in prison on charges of possessing child sex abuse material. The following year, Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years and up to 125 years, respectively, in two separate Michigan courts for molesting female gymnasts under his care.Following the federal sentencing, U.S. Attorney Birge said: ‘Today was a day of reckoning for Larry Nassar. He more than deserves this punishment for what he did.’He consumed child pornography on a massive scale. We found 37,000 images of child pornography on his computers. Insatiable hunger of that nature simply encourages those who produce such images to continue to sexually exploit children. Compounding his danger to the public, ‘Nassar was an insidious hands-on child predator in his own right. He took advantage of family friendships. And he treated his license to practice medicine as a license to sexually molest children. Thanks to the brave victims who came forward, we learned the full scope of his depravity. The breadth and dark depth of his heinous acts are extraordinary.’In April 2024, the US Justice Department announced a $138.7 million settlement with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against Nassar in 2015 and 2016, a critical time gap that allowed the sports doctor to continue to prey on victims before his arrest.When combined with other settlements, $1billion now has been set aside by various organizations to compensate hundreds of women who said Nassar assaulted them under the guise of treatment for sports injuries. Simone Biles publicly broke her silence in January 2018, revealing in a powerful tweet that she was one of Nassar’s victims.’It took me a long time to write that, probably a couple of days, because every time I would go to write, I would start bawling, and I couldn’t get through it,’ she said.Biles also noted that she was heartbroken over having to continue to train at the ranch, the former USA Gymnastics national training center where she and her teammates were abused by the disgraced doctor.