Title IX Lawsuit: Ohio State Failed to Stop Abuse

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Attorneys representing 37 former Ohio State University athletes filed a Title IX lawsuit against the university Wednesday, claiming it failed to prevent physical abuse of the men perpetrated by the associate director of OSU's sports medicine program at the time.

Filed in U.S. District Court in Columbus by attorneys Michael Wright, Robert Gresham and Dennis Mulvihill of the Wright & Schulte firm of Dayton, the lawsuit states, "OSU had actual notice of and was deliberately indifferent to the fact that Richard Strauss, M.D., an OSU employee, tenured faculty member, and the Associate Director of OSU's sports medicine program, sexually assaulted and abused hundreds of male OSU student-athletes and other male OSU undergraduates for over nineteen years. Moreover, OSU officials aided, abetted, and actively concealed Strauss' sexual predation on OSU's students."

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