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More Colleges Facing Lawsuits For Covering Up Sexual Abuse
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8:00Now PlayingLawsuits are stacking up against the University of Southern California with more than 300 students and staffers alleging that the school covered up the sexual assault of former campus doctor, George Tyndall. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this issue.
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Lawsuits are stacking up against the University of Southern California with more than 300 students and staffers alleging that the school covered up the sexual assault of former campus doctor, George Tyndall. This is a story that just doesn't go away because it seems like every month, people are coming forward saying that USC did everything they could to cover up the truth of what was happening.
I looked at this story and you try to find out what are the most salient aspects of the story? I mean, the salient aspects are what did the girls report, what did the women report about what was happening. The thing that is inescapable is you've got people who are assistants, staff assistants, and I think we learned this on another time when we did this story, is that this is a doctor that was performing gynecological exams without gloves and commenting as he goes along and actually keeping them in a test that should last for 10 minutes was 30 minutes, as he was using his bare hands to perform these gynecological studies. Of course, just as you'd expect, complaints were made, complaint after complaint made, to USC and they covered it up.
Right. This one is particularly disgusting because it's not just, oh, a few students that ... More than 300 right now. More than 300.
Right.
Then, as you just said, the staff, the staff also reported not just that kind of behavior because he was being sexually explicit with them, also hugely racist comments he was making to them.
It was only racist comments that actually started his downfall.
Right.
In other words, it wasn't the fact that he was actually molesting these girls year after year. It was the racist comment. All of a sudden, USC's like, "Well, we've got to pay attention to that."
Well, and you know, this guy was basically the on-campus gynecologist. The women there at the university had little option. It was on campus, it was close, it was allegedly safe because it was campus sanctioned, so they go in there. Then this happens. They report it to the school, women after women, into the hundreds.
The same stories though. It was the same kind of stories.
Right.
It was saying, "He's not even using gloves in exam." Any expert gynecologist would say, "Well, how long should this exam last? How long should he be having his hands on breasts? How long should he be having his bare hand in the vagina?" First of all, there wouldn't be any bare hands at all.
Right.
They kept hearing the same story. It wasn't like there was anything aberrational about it. I think it's interesting. After they come up and they determine that he's making these discriminatory, sexually inappropriate comments, as they describe it, then he sues the university. He doubles down. He says, "Well, I'm going to sue the university for what you've done to my career." That's when all hell breaks loose and the rest of the stories are finally told because, truth is, USC had the stories all along.
Right. That's almost as big of an issue as what Tyndall himself was doing because this is the same kind of behavior that we saw with the Catholic church, we've seen it at Ohio State with USA gymnastics. It's that the institution knew this was taking place, whether it's a university, a church, or whatever it is, they knew it was happening, they did what they could to cover it up, Penn State, another great example, and this is what happens. You cover it up, you don't get rid of the abuser, you don't stop the behavior, and you allow more women, due to your complacency with it, to fall victim to this guy. That's why we're having such massive lawsuits.
Well, yeah. Look, it's not about, gee, we're trying to protect the victims. It's never about the victims.
Right.
It's we're trying to protect our staff member because, A, if these reports are made, it hurts our reputation, because colleges actually ...
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