Possible sex abuse at Ohio State

CharminTide said:

Now it's five wrestlers saying he knew.

I find it interesting how Republicans will so fiercely defend sexual abuse involving two men.

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92tide said:

it's just locker room antics

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RollTide_HTTR said:

The thing that really gets me is that while there are cases of people overreacting or outright lying there are MANY more cases that are never reported and victims who never come forward.

The amount of people I know that have been sexually assaulted truly sickens me. And the vast majority of the perpetrators are still out there and there isn't much that can be done. I can also tell you some horror stories of victims attempting to get help (at times from family members) and being shunned, ignored, or berated for lying. Obviously there are men who are victims as well but I am not exaggerating when I say more than half the women I know well have been victims of sexual abuse.

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What’s clear is that the spectre of false allegation continues to dog the reporting of sexual violence. There remains a public impression that false allegations are common and that innocent people suffer as the result of being wrongfully accused.

The evidence on false allegations fails to support public anxiety that untrue reporting is common. While the statistics on false allegations vary – and refer most often to rape and sexual assault – they are invariably and consistently low. Research for the Home Office suggests that only 4 per cent of cases of sexual violence reported to the UK police are found or suspected to be false. Studies carried out in Europe and in the US indicate rates of between 2 per cent and 6 per cent.

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GrayTide said:

Being one of the 29 member "Freedom Caucus" should give him protection, if not, there is always a Trump's pardon he can rely on.

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92tide said:

it's just locker room antics

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https://twitter.com/abc/status/1015367961928978433

92tide said:

it's almost like this stuff follows a pattern

https://twitter.com/abc/status/1015367961928978433

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A half-dozen ex-wrestlers told POLITICO they were regularly harassed in their training facility by sexually aggressive men who attended the university or worked there. The voyeurs would masturbate while watching the wrestlers shower or sit in the sauna, or engage in sexual acts in the areas where the athletes trained, the former wrestlers said.

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92tide said:

‘A cesspool of deviancy’: New claims of voyeurism test Jordan denials

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NationalTitles17 said:

What. The. Hell.

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81usaf92 said:

Nowhere near.

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https://twitter.com/abc/status/1015762662209343488

An eighth former OSU wrestler now says that congressman Jim Jordan knew that a team doctor was sexually preying on students during his tenure as assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University.

In recent weeks, several other former OSU wrestlers — including the Ultimate Fighting Championship star Mark Coleman — have publicly claimed that Jordan was aware of allegations that OSU medical doctor Richard Strauss had fondled the genitalia of wrestling team members. The powerful House Republican responded last week by deriding the men he had once coached as liars, and possible agents of a “deep state” conspiracy against true conservatives throughout the elected government.

Those remarks apparently inspired another former OSU wrestler to tell CNN Tuesday, “Jordan is denying this because obviously it would be political suicide for him. He’s still denying it. Jim Jordan knew. He didn’t do anything about it.”

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It sure sounds an awful lot like Jordan did nothing while a sexual predator preyed on his students — and is now gaslighting alleged victims of sexual abuse to cover his own moral and ethical failures.

Remember, the scandal here is much larger than a handful of former wrestlers who claim Jordan knew about Strauss and did nothing. Ohio State has identified purported victims across 14 different sports. Some estimates for Strauss’ full number of alleged victims range in the thousands.

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Here’s the scenario:

Jordan is a former University of Wisconsin wrestling star who went on to coach wrestling at Ohio State. Naturally, his kids looked up to him. He was a hero.

The years went on, students came and went, and Jordan moved into politics. He developed power and influence. He was somebody. It was only a matter of time before one of his former students reached out for help.

One did, and he needed it desperately. The former student says he was sexually assaulted by Strauss. He wasn’t alone. Dozens of other students were coming forward with the same story of alleged abuse — at the hands of the same person. After years of silent suffering, Jordan’s former wrestlers and others wanted justice, and they were counting on Jordan to go to bat for them.

What would a decent person do in this scenario?

A. Publicly express outrage and do everything he could to help his former student and other victims seek justice.

B. Use whatever leverage he has to quietly pressure his former school and law enforcement into taking the matter seriously.

C. Tell the former student “it’s not my problem” and send him on his way.

Jim Jordan was confronted with this very scenario. He chose C.

And that is the most generous way to describe his actions. The reality is worse.

When asked by his former student for help, not only did Jordan say, “No thanks,” but he called the police on said man when his cries for help became politically inconvenient.

Jordan could have been an ally to his former students. Even if he’s ignorant about the alleged abuse, he could have spoken out in support of alleged victims. He could still have tried to help. Instead, he abandoned his moral and ethical responsibility to protect his career.

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