DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Courtroom on Friday rejected a remaining appeal from sports activities physician Larry Nassar, who was sentenced to many years in jail for sexually assaulting gymnasts, together with Olympic medalists.

Attorneys for Nassar mentioned he was handled unfairly in 2018 and deserved a brand new listening to, based mostly on vengeful remarks by a decide who referred to as him a “monster” who would “wither” in jail just like the depraved witch in “The Wizard of Oz.”

“I simply signed your loss of life warrant,” Ingham County Decide Rosemarie Aquilina mentioned of Nassar’s 40-year sentence.

The state Supreme Courtroom mentioned Nassar’s appeal was a “shut query” and that it had “issues” over the decide’s conduct. However the courtroom additionally famous that Aquilina, regardless of her provocative feedback, caught to the sentencing settlement labored out by attorneys in the case.

“We decline to expend extra judicial sources and additional topic the victims in this case to extra trauma the place the questions at hand current nothing greater than an instructional train,” the courtroom mentioned in a two-page order.

Greater than 150 victims spoke or submitted statements throughout a unprecedented seven-day listening to in Aquilina’s courtroom greater than 4 years in the past.

“It’s over. … Nearly six years after I filed the police report, it’s lastly over,” Rachael Denhollander, the primary girl to publicly accuse Nassar, mentioned Friday on Twitter.

Nassar pleaded responsible to sexually assaulting gymnasts and different athletes along with his arms beneath the guise of medical therapy for hip and leg accidents. He labored at Michigan State College and at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, touring the world with the elites of the game.

“Our Structure doesn’t permit for merciless and weird punishment,” Aquilina informed Nassar. “If it did, I’ve to say I would permit what he did to all of those stunning souls, these younger girls in their childhood. I might permit somebody or many individuals to do to him what he did to others.”

Nassar subsequently acquired one other 40-year sentence in a separate case in a neighboring county.

He’s at the moment in federal jail for little one pornography crimes in a unique case that grew out of the identical investigation. The sentences successfully imply Nassar, 58, will spend the remainder of his life behind bars.

The Nassar case turned Aquilina into a star. She appeared on the 2018 ESPY awards in Los Angeles, the place his victims have been honored. The decide mentioned she trademarked her title after it began showing on T-shirts, together with one worn by actress Natalie Portman on “Saturday Evening Stay.”

The scandal hasn’t light. Greater than 100 girls, together with Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, are collectively looking for greater than $1 billion from the federal authorities for the FBI’s failure to cease Nassar when brokers turned conscious of allegations towards him in 2015. He was arrested by Michigan State College police in 2016, greater than a yr later.

Michigan State, which was accused of lacking probabilities over a few years to cease Nassar, agreed to pay $500 million to greater than 300 girls and women who have been assaulted by him. USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee made a $380 million settlement.