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medical board will also review an additional 42 previously
closed sexual assault cases to determine if doctors who might
have had knowledge of sexual misconduct failed to report it to
the authorities, the Ohio Department of Public Safety said in
its 173-page report.
The taskforce that produced the report was created by Ohio
Governor Mike DeWine in 2019 in response to a sex-abuse scandal
that involved Richard Strauss, a former team doctor at Ohio
State University.
Nearly 180 men who attended Ohio State University claimed they
were sexually abused more than two decades ago by the
now-deceased doctor, and university staff who knew of the abuse
failed to act, a report released by the school in May 2019 had
said. (https://reut.rs/3bC8d9E)
"The Medical Board has made real and meaningful strides toward
ensuring that never again would it fail to act when it holds
credible, actionable information about one of its licensees,
such as it had with Strauss," Wednesday's report said.
The taskforce had identified 1,254 closed sexual impropriety
cases going back 25 years and ultimately decided to treat 91 of
those as active cases. The news was first reported by The
Columbus Dispatch.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Simon
Cameron-Moore)
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