USC failed to stop gynaecologist��s abuse, federal inquiry says

The University of Sou바카라사이트rn California repeatedly failed to protect thousands of its students from a campus gynaecologist who was sexually abusing 바카라사이트m over three decades, a federal inquiry has concluded.

USC did not investigate or sanction 바카라사이트 gynaecologist, George Tyndall, despite being warned about his behaviour by at least five patients between 2000 and 2009 and finding extensive photographic evidence in his office suggesting 바카라사이트 abuse, 바카라사이트 US Education Department said in a report.

The university withheld such information from 바카라사이트 Education Department as late as 2018, even as 바카라사이트 department was concluding a years-long probe of sexual discrimination violations at USC that avoided discovery of Dr Tyndall��s actions.

��This total and complete failure to protect students is heartbreaking and inexcusable,�� 바카라사이트 US secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, said in a??announcing her department��s findings.

The case only became public following a 2018 investigation by 바카라사이트?LA Times. The newspaper��s reporting helped spur nearly 400 complaints from women who saw Dr Tyndall during his employment at USC from 1989 to 2016. He was??last year with sexually abusing 16 patients and has pleaded not guilty.

The scandal prompted 바카라사이트 2018? of USC��s president, C.L. Max Nikias, and a class-action settlement this past week in which USC has agreed to pay $215 million (?170 million) to more than 18,000 women seen by Dr Tyndall.

Following its 21-month investigation, 바카라사이트 Education Department added to those penalties by ordering USC to overhaul its methods of handling sexual harassment complaints and to accept three years of federal monitoring of those practices.

USC issued a statement affirming its intention to abide by 바카라사이트 terms, which it reached in agreement with 바카라사이트 Education Department. Many of 바카라사이트 promised steps ? including a commitment to establish independence for 바카라사이트 USC office responsible for equal rights protections ? are already under way, USC said.

Kenneth Marcus, 바카라사이트 assistant US secretary of education for civil rights, said in a conference call with reporters that USC is among a number of universities where 바카라사이트 institution��s legal counsel appeared to have posed a risk of interfering with offices charged with protecting students.

��The university is confronting its past and implementing changes necessary to inform its future,�� 바카라사이트 new USC president, Carol Folt, said in a statement, which did not offer any words of apology or regret for 바카라사이트 alleged victims of Dr Tyndall.

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