The Ohio State University settled for $100 million with 279 former students because the university failed to protect them from sexual abuse by a former campus doctor. File Photo by Mike Theiler/UPI | License Photo
June 4 (UPI) -- The Ohio State University agreed to pay $100 million to former students who said a campus doctor sexually abused them.
The settlement was signed by all but one of the 280 people in the case. A court-appointed special master will interview each of the plaintiffs to determine the level of harm and how much settlement money they will get, NBC News reported. If divided equally by 279 people, that would give each plaintiff $358,423, before deducting attorneys' fees.
The students have accused Dr. Richard Strauss of sexually abusing them. They sued the university in 2018 alleging that it failed to protect them from form him from 1978 to 1998, when he worked in the campus health center and the athletic department. Strauss died by suicide in 2005.
A report released in 2019 found that several Ohio State staff were aware of the complaints as early as 1979, but they didn't stop it.
