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Hortensis

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12. NEW: "Ohio State sued by 30 more former students over Strauss sexual abuse"
Thu Jul 25, 2019, 11:28 AM
Jul 2019

This was from yesterday's Columbus Dispatch. Gothmog just grabbed the wrong one to lead with, but that one's seemingly still around somewhere also. After trying to get the previous 3 federal lawsuits dismissed, earlier this year a federal court said it would seek mediation for two of them.

"Ohio State sued by 30 more former students over Strauss sexual abuse"

An additional 30 former Ohio State University students have filed a lawsuit against the school, alleging that university officials knew about sexual abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss but failed to address it.

Most of the plaintiffs in the suit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Columbus are former student-athletes from a number of sports, including about a dozen former football players. They are all listed as anonymous John Does.

The plaintiffs are represented by Dayton attorney Michael Wright, who is representing another group of former OSU student-athletes — mostly football players — in a separate, companion case filed in May. ...

https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190723/ohio-state-sued-by-30-more-former-students-over-strauss-sexual-abuse

Scumbag Jordan was unopposed in the last primary. 32% voted against him in the GE, by far mostly Democrats of course.

Most of those who voted for him must be voting against Democratic "lies" about this fine man that they've been refusing to believe. He got some cover earlier this year from a report commissioned by OSU that "found" Jordan and other managers knew nothing about what was happening, despite the efforts of some staff to fight it and of course the reality that it was widely known among OSU students.

But this isn't going away for Jordan. And if these lawsuits crack that dam of denial, Jordan's history of at very least condoning and empowering a sexually depraved and abusive environment that preyed on innocent boys should disgust and anger Ohio's conservatives, even more than it does liberals.

Speaking of intense disgust: OSU University President Michael Drake found the findings of the report he commissioned "shocking and painful to comprehend" in a letter released with the report.
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