Category Archive for : ‘DOCTORS’

February 4, 2020
Anna Staver, Randy Ludlow
Dispatch

As the Ohio House prepares to resume hearings on a bill to allow victims of deceased Ohio State University doctor Richard Strauss to sue the university, its fate remains unclear.
However, minority Democrats and the Republican governor are asking whether it’s time to end a separate statute of limitations on filing criminal charges in sexual assault cases.
House Bill 249 would suspend Ohio’s statute of limitations for civil cases stemming from sexual assaults, but only for Strauss’ victims.
Gov. Mike DeWine is leery of the legal concept of

February 1, 2020
Greta Jochem
Gazette Net

NORTHAMPTON — In recent weeks, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. has faced calls to resign over what sexual assault survivors and their advocates say is lenient treatment of men accused of sexual assault.
Northampton resident Marissa Hoechstetter is helping lead the charge and formed Reform the Sex Crimes Unit, “a campaign for accountability and transparency in the Manhattan district attorney’s office,” she said.
Hoechstetter says she was sexually abused by her OB-GYN, Robert Hadden, at Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian hospital facilities in New York City. The

December 10, 2019
Julie Compton
NBC News

Stephen Snyder-Hill had worked hard to forget the name of the Ohio State University sports doctor who he says sexually assaulted him in 1995. But last year, while watching the news in his home in Columbus, Ohio, he saw a picture of Dr. Richard Strauss, who is accused of assaulting hundreds of former OSU students, and immediately recognized him.
“It is like a sledgehammer that hits you right in the face into a reality that you never knew existed,” Snyder-Hill told NBC News. “And that’s when you

October 16, 2019
Jack Hardy
Telegraph
 

AGP molested female patients as young as 11 by using medical stories about celebrities including Angelina Jolie as an excuse for his “invasive” examinations, a court has heard.

Manish Shah allegedly spent four years years carrying out intimate but unnecessary examination on women and children for own sexual gratification at his east London practice.

The 50-year-old yesterday went on trial accused of 34 sexual offences against eight victims aged between 11 and 39 between May 2009 and June 2013.

On one occasion, it is alleged Shah asked a woman if

October 6, 2019
Jennifer Smola
Dispatch

The numbers of sexual assaults included in safety reports released last week by Ohio State University and Michigan State University are unprecedented highs, experts say, thanks to the crimes linked to doctors who preyed on hundreds of students at each school.
Ohio State acknowledged that there have been nearly 1,500 reported instances of sexual abuse tied to Dr. Richard Strauss, who worked as a sports and student health physician at the university from 1978 to 1998. The announcement came as part of Ohio State’s annual campus safety report,

September 30, 2019
Alex Shabad
WCNC
 

An NBC Charlotte Defenders investigation is looking ways you can diagnose bad doctors. It comes after NBC Charlotte learned a doctor convicted of serious sex crimes in Missouri has ties to the Charlotte area.

Officials say Howard Setzer would sexually abuse patients who came to him for pain treatment in Missouri. The Defenders team learned he did his medical training in Charlotte about a year before the crimes in Missouri.

NBC Charlotte is learning about several tools meant to protect patients right at your fingertips. The Defenders team learned