U. of Minnesota Sued Over '80s Era Abuse Allegations

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A federal lawsuit filed Thursday accuses the University of Minnesota and additional hockey organizations of ignored allegations that a coach was abusing players in the 1980s.

As reported by the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, the suit filed by Gophers recruit Mike Sacks and four other men accuses Thomas “Chico” Adrahtas of blindfolding his teenage and college-age victims and sexually assaulting them while making them believe a woman named “Sheila” was performing a sex act on them. Sacks alleges that when Minnesota's athletic director at the time, Paul Giel, was told of the abuse he failed to alert law enforcement and instead reported Adrahtas’ actions to the Board of Regents, which failed to act. Giel died in 2002.

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