Suits against Ohio State over sex abuse by doc are dismissed

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

BY KANTELE FRANKO ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 5:00 AM

COLUMBUS, OHIO
A federal judge dismissed some of the biggest unsettled lawsuits over Ohio State's failure to stop decades-old sexual abuse by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss, saying Wednesday it’s indisputable Strauss abused hundreds of young men but agreeing with OSU’s argument that the legal window for such claims had passed.

“For decades, many at Ohio State tasked with protecting and training students and young athletes instead turned a blind eye to Strauss’s exploitation,” U.S. District Court Judge Michael Watson wrote in one ruling. “From 1979 to 2018, Ohio State utterly failed these victims. Plaintiffs beseech this Court to hold Ohio State accountable, but today, the legal system also fails Plaintiffs.”

The matter isn't done. Strauss-related lawsuits against OSU filed this year by dozens of other plaintiffs appeared to still be pending, with no dismissal or other new rulings appearing on those dockets as of late Wednesday. And lawyers for the 200-plus plaintiffs whose cases were dismissed immediately vowed to appeal.

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“The students were betrayed on the campus, and they’re betrayed again by the university in the legal proceedings” through the settlement amounts it offered and its argument for dismissing the cases, Estey said. “I mean, it’s betrayal across the board.”

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[Kid Berwyn]

1. Appointed by George w Bush.

Protecting Jim Jordan, et al.

[cstanleytech]

6. The judge acknowledged that the courts including his own has failed them and his ruling was

based on the law as passed by the state legislators or that’s what it reads like to me though I could be mistaken.

[Comfortably_Numb]

2. Gym Jordan gets his first peaceful night's sleep in ages knowing he got over.

[mpcamb]

5. Maybe that should have been the headline...

[Comfortably_Numb]

7. Makes sense for me.

[CrispyQ]

9. Now he'll be an even bigger asshole. -nt

[gab13by13]

3. So, tO$U is above the law.

It must have a lot more clout than Penn State. Even the NCAA gave tO$U a pass.

Waiting to see if Michigan State gets nailed for harboring the Olympics doctor.

[turbinetree]

4. SO old Jimmy will not have to give a deposition....how quaint.....

[WinstonSmith4740]

8. Wait a minute.

“From 1979 to 2018, Ohio State utterly failed these victims..."

2018?? And these cases were dismissed because "the legal window for such claims had passed."? I looked up the statute of limitations for sex crimes in Ohio. It's pretty insane, and the laws have been called the worst in the nation. Let's start here.

The Ohio civil statute of limitations for victims of childhood sexual abuse is capped at age 30 and its criminal statute of limitations for victims of childhood sexual abuse is capped at age 43, with another five years granted if DNA is found within 25 years.

So people abused as children, who keep it suppressed for years & can't even begin come to grips with it until they are adults, are basically out of luck.

Here's another beaut.

Adult victims of sexual assault must sue within two years of the attack.

It's obvious the people who write these laws have absolutely no idea how devasting this kind of experience can be, and that it stays with the victim forever. The last thing they're going to be able to do is constantly re-live the experience within 2 years of going through it. I've been lucky...1 out of 3 women can't say that. And men obviously aren't immune either.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/crime/2021/09/23/statute-limitations-sexual-assault-abuse-richard-strauss-ohio-state-osu/5822327001/