Former NFL Players Joining ****** Abuse Lawsuit Emphasizes Ohio State’s Lack of Acc...
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Thirty former Ohio State football players announced that they will join a lawsuit against the university over ****** ual abuse by former athletic department physician Richard Strauss. The group includes former NFL players Ray Ellis, Al Washington and Keith Ferguson. This is the latest flare in a damaging scandal first revealed eight years ago.
In 2020, Sports Illustrated senior writer Jon Wertheim wrote a lengthy story, “Why Aren’t More People Talking About the Ohio State ****** Abuse Scandal?,” which was turned into the award-winning HBO documentary Surviving Ohio State. We checked in with him after this latest development.
Most important, it means there were still more victims of a serial predator who was allowed to work on campus—and had virtually free reign to athletes and facilties—for nearly two decades. Dr. Strauss, who took his own life in 2005 and never faced his accusers, worked at the school from 1978 to 1996 and caused immeasurable harm. The injured parties keep coming forward with their accounts of his abuse.
It also—crassly and candidly—means that Ohio State’s PR challenge has grown incalculably. Note that Ohio State has never contested the allegations. The school’s defense has always been about the statute of limitations and responsible parties. But OSU has never challenged the survivors’ accounts or defended Strauss.
https://www.si.com/college...
In this story:
Thirty former Ohio State football players announced that they will join a lawsuit against the university over ****** ual abuse by former athletic department physician Richard Strauss. The group includes former NFL players Ray Ellis, Al Washington and Keith Ferguson. This is the latest flare in a damaging scandal first revealed eight years ago.
In 2020, Sports Illustrated senior writer Jon Wertheim wrote a lengthy story, “Why Aren’t More People Talking About the Ohio State ****** Abuse Scandal?,” which was turned into the award-winning HBO documentary Surviving Ohio State. We checked in with him after this latest development.
Most important, it means there were still more victims of a serial predator who was allowed to work on campus—and had virtually free reign to athletes and facilties—for nearly two decades. Dr. Strauss, who took his own life in 2005 and never faced his accusers, worked at the school from 1978 to 1996 and caused immeasurable harm. The injured parties keep coming forward with their accounts of his abuse.
It also—crassly and candidly—means that Ohio State’s PR challenge has grown incalculably. Note that Ohio State has never contested the allegations. The school’s defense has always been about the statute of limitations and responsible parties. But OSU has never challenged the survivors’ accounts or defended Strauss.
https://www.si.com/college...
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