Thirty seven former male athletes filed a Title IX lawsuit against Ohio State on Wednesday that alleges university officials did not intervene enough or stop Dr. Richard Strauss from sexually abusing students during preseason physicals or medical treatments.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Columbus and named only one plaintiff, former wrestler Mike DiSabato, while listing the other 36 as "John Does."
"OSU had actual notice of and was deliberately indifferent to the fact that Richard Strauss, M.D., an OSU employee, tenured faculty member, and the Associate Director of OSU's sports medicine program, sexually assaulted and abused hundreds of male OSU student-athletes and other male OSU undergraduates for over nineteen years.