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Originally Posted by dth123451
At least 5 people say he had direct knowledge of another coach raping kids
Not that this absolves Jim Jordan, but I think the bolded is wrong. I finally got around to reading the story. USA Today and CBS say it was a team doctor groping athletes and watching them in the showers and locker room.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/richard...men-for-years/
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They described how Strauss fondled them during medical exams and ogled naked young men, sometimes showering among athletes multiple times a day for no apparent reason or perching himself on a stool to stare. Some said Strauss groped them barehanded during physicals, had them drop their pants even while examining them for a cough or heartburn, and badgered students to go home with him.
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Former wrestling team captain Dave Mulvin said he raised concerns in the late 1970s, when Strauss fondled him during an exam that Mulvin abruptly ended, telling the doctor his behavior was "weird."
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Nick Nutter, an All-American wrestler in the 1990s, said he constantly did a calculation before deciding whether to see Strauss: "Is this injury bad enough that I'm going to get molested for it?"
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[DiSabato] said Strauss' behavior was an open secret among wrestlers, who would snicker when a new teammate headed into his first exam with Strauss.
Apparently an administrator and another doctor ignored the complaints:
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Mulvin said he went to the student health center to finish the exam and complained about Strauss to another doctor, who shrugged it off.
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Yetts said he complained about Strauss to his coach after being groped during three exams, and the coach, Russ Hellickson, told the doctor to stop such behavior.
Other wrestlers said Hellickson, who coached at Ohio State for two decades starting in 1986, expressed concerns to a Larkins Hall administrator
Jim Jordan was an assistant coach. I suppose it's
possible that an asst coach didn't know, because the athletes might only complain to the head coach. But given the WaPo article ScreaminAsian posted, he almost definitely knew.
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[Former wrestler David Range:] "...He knew about it because it was an everyday occurrence."
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“We talked about it all the time in the locker room” while Jordan was there, he said. “Everybody joked about it and talked about it all the time.”
This isn't on the same level as JoePa's inaction toward Sandusky, but there's no defense for it and it ought to cost Jordan his political career.