94 Women Allege a Utah Doctor Sexually Assaulted Them. Here's Why a Judge Threw Out Their Case.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.propublica.org/article/94-utah-women-sue-obgyn-for-sexual-assault-judge-tosses-case

This story discusses sexual assault.



At 19 years old and about to be married, Stephanie Mateer went to an OB-GYN within walking distance of her student housing near Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

She wanted to start using birth control, and she was looking for guidance about having sex for the first time on her 2008 wedding night.

Mateer was shocked, she said, when Dr. David Broadbent reached under her gown to grab and squeeze her breasts, started a vaginal exam without warning, then followed it with an extremely painful examination of her rectum.

She felt disgusted and violated, but doubt also creeped in. She told herself she must have misinterpreted his actions, or that she should have known that he would do a rectal exam. Raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she said she was taught to defer to men in leadership.

“I viewed him as being a man in authority,” Mateer said. “He’s a doctor.”

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[Jilly_in_VA]

1. They need to take it up the chain

This judge is wrong.

[inthewind21]

6. Not according

to Utah law. She needs to take it up with all those men she was taught to defer to. It's helpful when you know the laws of your own state before you decide to sue.

[spooky3]

2. Horrifying. Nt

[2naSalit]

3. Because that's what they do.

Women are chattel. Brood sows. The church elders also have their perverted rituals, one involving watching the couple having sex... they are told when to have children and their version on what could be called a combination of the oppressive women in Handmaid's Tale and the Iraqi modesty police come to your house regularly to observe how you live your lives. Seriously. They are already living the Handmaid's Tale in Utah and Idaho. I was always dubious of the GYNs where I lived and was thankful I had access to the campus clinic.

[Marcus IM]

4. I think you are referring you Iran's modesty police, not Iraq. n/t

[Solly Mack]

5. That's fucked up. Beyond disgusting.

taught to defer to men in leadership/being a man in authority

That thinking has always been an alien concept to me.