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ECBAWM represents 77 survivors of sexual abuse by OSU doctor Richard Strauss. While employed by Ohio State, Dr. Strauss reportedly committed at least 47 rapes and 1,429 sexual assaults of Ohio State students, over a period of decades. Ilann M. Maazel, Debra Greenberger, and Marissa Benavides at ECBAWM are co-counseling the case with attorneys Adele Kimmel at Public Justice in Washington, D.C., and Scott Smith in Columbus, Ohio. The case is captioned Snyder-Hill, et al. v. The Ohio State University, 18-CV-00736, in federal court in Columbus.

A May 15, 2019 report reveals OSU’s complete failure to protect its students. The report found: “Despite the persistence, seriousness, and regularity of complaints” of sexual abuse from students since 1979, “no meaningful action was taken by the University to investigate the concerns until January 1996.” Even then, officials at the highest levels of the University kept Strauss as a tenured faculty member until 1998, gave him an emeritus appointment in 1998, did not inform any students that Strauss was a sexual predator, and permitted Strauss to run ads in the University newspaper about his off-campus private men’s clinic for OSU students and others

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