MSU Let Larry Nassar See Patients During Lengthy Campus Police Probe

Larry Nassar (NBC News photo)

Here's more disturbing news about Michigan State University and Larry Nassar.

MSU allowed Nassar to see patients for 16 months while he was under criminal investigation by the campus police  fter a 2014 allegation of sexual assault by a female patient, Matt Mencarini of the Lansing State Journal reports:

The university has the ability to suspend any employee under criminal investigation, Michigan State University spokesperson Jason Cody said. Nassar was allowed to return to work after the university cleared him in a separate Title IX investigation involving the woman’s accusations.

At least a dozen women and girls have reported to police that Nassar sexually assaulted them after MSU allowed the former doctor to return to work after a three-month Title IX investigation, records show.

And the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office ultimately cleared Nassar of any criminal wrongdoing involving the patient despite a request from MSU police that Nassar be charged with sexual assault. Roughly nine months later more than 140 women, nearly all of them his patients, began coming forward to publicly accuse him of sexual assault.

Nassar has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting female patients and possessing child porn.