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Thirty-seven former Ohio State athletes — a majority of them football players and all but one anonymous — filed a civil rights lawsuit on Wednesday, saying that university officials had “aided, abetted and actively concealed” sexual assaults by Richard H. Strauss during his nearly 20 years as a team doctor for the school’s athletic department.
The lawsuit, the fourth of its kind against the university, is the first since Ohio State’s acknowledgment this month of the scope of Strauss’s abuse. The university released a 182-page report detailing — sometimes in graphic terms — how he had assaulted male athletes who were often sent to him for treatment of injuries or for preseason physical examinations.