The accounts are shocking and unsettling, compiled in a graphic report that detailed the repeated acts of sexual abuse committed by former University of Michigan physician Dr. Robert Anderson.
When the 240-page document produced by the WilmerHale law firm was released earlier this month, it drew national attention that raised questions about how a major public institution ignored Anderson’s transgressions during a tenure that spanned 37 years and ended in 2003. But Anderson’s misconduct may have been revealed to the public 10 years before his 2008 death in a novel about the Michigan football program authored by a former player, Brian Elwood Reid.