Ohio State previously reached six other settlements with survivors of Strauss’s abuse.
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Ohio State University agreed last week to pay $100 million to hundreds of former students who accused a university doctor of sexual assault and sued the institution, The Athletic and other media outlets reported.
The university has previously reached six other settlements with more than 300 students, totaling $61 million. This latest agreement is with 280 people and is expected to end the legal battle between the students and the university, The Athletic reported.
Former student athletes said in 2018 that the doctor, Richard Strauss, sexually assaulted them. A university investigation later found that Strauss, who died in 2005, sexually abused 177 male students. He worked as a university physician at OSU from 1978 to 1998.
