Current Events > Gym Jordan to be deposed in sex predator case after SCOTUS ruling

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/supreme-court-rebuffs-osu-enables-remaining-sex-abuse-victims-sue-rcna87519

The Supreme Court handed Ohio State University a potentially costly defeat on Monday by refusing to reconsider a lower court ruling that said former students should be allowed to sue it for failing to protect them from a sexual predator decades ago.

The decision came almost a year after the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that another federal judge erred in 2021 when he ruled that the statute of limitations in the case against Dr. Richard Strauss had run out.

Strauss victim Steve Snyder-Hill said "justice has prevailed."

"Colleges are not going to be able to cover up and lie about sexual assault then turn around and tell you it is too late (to sue), since they were so successful in covering it up, Snyder-Hill said.

Lawyers for the survivors said OSU had "attempted to run out the clock on its accountability."

"We look forward to returning to the trial court, having our clients stories heard, and gathering further evidence of OSUs widespread cover-up of Dr. Strausss serial predation," the statement from Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP, Scott Elliot Smith, LPA, and Public Justice, said.

Ohio State expressed disappointment the Supreme Court decided not to review the case but said "the university remains committed to supporting survivors" and has already paid out $60 million in settlement money to 296 victims.

"Ohio State is a fundamentally different university today than when Strauss was employed and over the past 20 years has committed substantial resources to prevent and address sexual misconduct," OSU said in a statement.

Shortly after the decision, lawyers for Strauss' victims said they intend to return to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio to press their case against OSU.

We plan to depose every OSU employee alleged to have known about Strausss abuse, including the employees named in the complaints, said Public Justice Students Civil Rights Project Director Adele Kimmel.

Among those employees mentioned in the complaints is Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who was the assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State from 1986 to 1994 and who has been accused of failing to stop Strauss from sexually molesting the student-athletes he helped coach.

Jordan has repeatedly denied any knowledge of what Strauss was doing.
"Our statement has never changed," Jordan spokesman Russell Dye, said in an email. "Congressman Jordan never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had, he would have dealt with it."

Strauss, who worked for OSU, was accused of preying on hundreds of men who attended the university from the 1970s through the 1990s, mostly under the guise of performing medical exams like hernia checks. The statute of limitation for criminal rape cases in Ohio is 20 years. Strauss died by suicide in 2005.

But 6th U.S. Circuit Judge Karen Nelson Moore said in the panels September 2022 ruling that most of the men didnt realize until 2018 that they were sexual abuse victims.

At the time of the abuse, they were teenagers and young adults and did not know what was medically appropriate, Moore wrote in her opinion. Strauss gave pretextual and false medical explanations for the abuse.

Moore added that many of the former students believed, at the time of the alleged abuse, that because Strauss conduct was so widely known and talked about, it could not have been abuse.

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lol @ They shouldn't be able to legally pursue sexual assaults after all this time, it's not our fault we were so good at covering this up!
I mean, WTaF?

Gym Jordan going to jail would be great

YourBestFrenemy posted...

lol @ They shouldn't be able to legally pursue sexual assaults after all this time, it's not our fault we were so good at covering this up!
I mean, WTaF?

That must have been infuriating to the victims.

I'm WTaFing over the fact that they settled with 296 victims and there are apparently still more.

Who TF was in charge over there?

Nealry 300 victims and counting? Jordan is full of shit if he claims he had no idea what was going on.

They always are they have no morals they don't care about anything unless a billionaire told them to

__starsnostars posted...

Nealry 300 victims and counting? Jordan is full of shit if he claims he had no idea what was going on.

Multiple victims testified that Jordan knew. He says he didn't. I don't know about you, but I'm going to believe...well, just about anybody over Jim Jordan.

darkace77450 posted...

Multiple victims testified that Jordan knew. He says he didn't. I don't know about you, but I'm going to believe...well, just about anybody over Jim Jordan.

More than a few even said they reported incidents directly to "Gym".

"Our statement has never changed," Jordan spokesman Russell Dye, said in an email. "Congressman Jordan never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had, he would have dealt with it."

By most accounts the predator was widely known, yet Gym Jordan never "saw or heard" anything. I don't buy it.

This fuels his projection with unlimited capacity. Imagine being apart of this where he lets children under his care be abused for years and when those same children grow up and bring cases to be filed again allowing them to further be abused by not stepping up and owning responsibility or at least aiding them in their case. Then years later being recognized by the Republican party for those qualities that allowed him to cow for this then be apart of this party screaming daily about the democrats especially Hillary Clinton and the Clintons in general being apart if child sex rings all while further denying any involvement when again brought up about the abuse.

It's really heinous and disgusting behavior, he should be put under the jail for it. And people supporting this party should also be ostracized for also enabling this behavior.

X8Azazel8X posted...

This fuels his projection with unlimited capacity. Imagine being apart of this where he lets children under his care be abused for years and when those same children grow up and bring cases to be filed again allowing them to further be abused by not stepping up and owning responsibility or at least aiding them in their case. Then years later being recognized by the Republican party for those qualities that allowed him to cow for this then be apart of this party screaming daily about the democrats especially Hillary Clinton and the Clintons in general being apart if child sex rings all while further denying any involvement when again brought up about the abuse.

It's really heinous and disgusting behavior, he should be put under the jail for it. And people supporting this party should also be ostracized for also enabling this behavior.

Yeah, again 296+ victims. Many of whom claim to have reported the sexual abuse directly to him. There's no way he "saw or heard" nothing. Years later, he's now concern trolling the country about 'whistleblowers' and 'groomers'.

It's outrageous, but he has no shame.