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USC Sexual Assault Lawsuits Seek Justice For Victims
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The #MeToo Movement has allowed victims of sexual assault to finally come forward and tell their stories. The high profile prosecutions and arrests of powerful men like Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and countless others have given these victims hope that, no matter how powerful the person carrying out the assault may be, they will be held to the same standard of justice as the rest of us. Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio and attorney Kim Adams discuss this.
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The "Me Too" movement has allowed victims of sexual assault to finally come forward and tell their stories. The high profile prosecutions and arrests of powerful men like Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and countless others has given these victims hope that no matter how powerful the person carrying out the assault might be, they're going to be held to the same standard of justice as the rest of us.
But the criminal convictions are only half of the story and we've got Kim Adams with me now to tell the rest of the story.
Kim, let's talk about one of the newest cases that we hear out there is the USC case. Oddly enough, it really hasn't gotten that much attention, and I'm wondering, has the media ... the media is like the shiny thing.
Right.
Corporate media is like, "Show me a shiny thing, and then we gotta move on because we don't have enough damn sense to analyze really what's happening here."
Right.
So is this another shiny thing, or ... you know, this is an important case.
It is a very important case. I think it may be a shiny thing. I cannot understand how the media cannot respond to the outrage of these students and just the institution in and of itself and how much information has been hidden for so long. So it's very difficult to understand why the media has sort of downplayed this case.
Okay. You're investigating it, you're working on it, this is certainly as bad as anything I've heard.
Yes.
I mean, it's no different. It's involving Dr. George Tyndall
That's right.
Tell me a little bit about that.
So, Dr. George Tyndall has been with the school for a number of years. The reports of this, whether it was sexual assault, sexual harassment, or unethical practices, started in the '90s and had continued up until he was discharged, probably in 2017 he was suspended. So we have looked at probably ... I think there's been eight complaints filed. The school has 52 complaints, another 400 ... the calls are just flooding in of this doctor's practices and they are really outrageous. Taking off his gloves during an examination. Reports of him preying on Asian students hoping that they wouldn't understand the difference of the practice here in America versus what they had.
Okay, what ... okay, so he's examining these women. He's doing things like examination, as you point out, without gloves-
That's right.
... trying to say he can't wear the gloves as he's doing a vaginal investigation because he can't feel things just right.
Right.
Nurses in the room, they understand that's total, utter nonsense.
That's right.
And so, this case is the same we see all the time. It takes somebody coming forward and saying, "Dr. George Tyndall is a freak."
That's right.
"He is a freak and he needs to ... we need to do something about it." It's unbelievable ... you will never convince me that this school didn't know about Dr. George Tyndall long before this hit.
They ... clearly they knew. There are reports of them sending out surveys to students. Do you like Dr. Tyndall or do you not like Dr. Tyndall, and that was the extent of their investigation. I'm sure the litigation will reveal more things that we have not seen yet. He would take ... but clearly taking pictures of student's genitals while you're in the examination room is unethical. Clearly him asking them, "Get completely undressed" without having any robe ... most doctors step out of the room. There's just a number of things that I think did raise concern for some of these nurses, but the school didn't act on it.
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