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Larry Nassar , the disgraced former sports doctor and convicted sexual abuser of hundreds of U.S. gymnasts, is blaming the judge in his case after he says he was assaulted by fellow inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona, where he is serving a life sentence .

According to documents filed Tuesday by Nassars attorneys in Ingham County Circuit Court, Nassar was physically attacked soon after joining the general population at the Tucson prison. The documents comprise an appeal for Nassar to be re-sentenced.

Nassars lawyer, Jacqueline McCann of the state appellate defenders office in Detroit, said in the documents that the alleged prison assault was the fault of Ingham County Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and that she should be disqualified.

Unfortunately, Judge Aquilinas comments and conducting of the sentencing proceeding appeared to encourage this type of behavior, McCann said.

#Nassars motion also seeks to disqualify Judge Rosemarie Aquilina. #local4 pic.twitter.com/tJJyGjAWFR

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#Nassar s motion also seeks to disqualify Judge Rosemarie Aquilina. #local4 pic.twitter.com/tJJyGjAWFR
Nick Monacelli (@nickmonacelli) July 25, 2018

In January, Aquilina listened as 169 survivors and family members read victim impact statements during Nassars trial. She then offered her own blistering assessment of Nassars character. Sir, Im giving you 175 years, which is 2,100 months, she told the 54-year-old Nassar at sentencing. I just signed your death warrant . She also said shed be open to letting people do to Nassar what hed admitted to doing to his victims, were it not unconsitutional.

Our Constitution does not allow for cruel and unusual punishment, Aquilina said . If it did, I have to say, I might allow what he did to all of these beautiful souls these young women in their childhood I would allow some or many people to do to him what he did to others.

In the court documents filed this week, McCann argued that Aquilina used the nationally-televised proceeding as an opportunity to advance her own agenda, including to advocate for policy initiatives within the state as well as the federal legislatures, to push for broader cultural change regarding gender equity and sexual discrimination issues and seemingly as a type of group therapy for victims.

McCann said she believes the judge had already decided to impose the maximum allowed by the sentence agreement before the sentencing hearing began.