2026年6月3日 / 美国东部时间晚上10:57 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
俄亥俄州立大学周三同意支付约1亿美元，以了结数百名前学生运动员提出的法律索赔。这些学生运动员称，数十年前曾遭到该校一名医生的性侵。
自2018年以来，该校一直在联邦法院应诉前学生运动员提起的诉讼，这些诉讼指控校方未能制止理查德·施特劳斯医生的性侵行为。
施特劳斯于1978年至1998年间在该校任职，同时还经营一家校外诊所。他于2005年去世。
在周三的一场会议上，该校董事会批准了一项初步和解协议，涉及仍在未决诉讼中的280名幸存者中的除一人外的所有人。一旦最终敲定，该和解协议或将结束这场漫长的法律纠纷，为该校历史上一段痛苦的篇章画上句号。
“施特劳斯性侵案的幸存者都是俄亥俄州立大学的校友，永远都是我们学校和社区的一部分，我对此深信不疑，”该校校长拉维·贝拉曼孔达在会议上说道。“我们始终非常感谢他们挺身而出的勇气，达成最终和解对我们而言至关重要，也是向前迈出的重要一步。”
多年前的一份独立报告显示，早在1979年就有数十名俄亥俄州立大学工作人员收到过有关施特劳斯行为的投诉，但该校多年来始终未展开调查或采取任何有效行动。
在周三的一份联合声明中，校方和原告方对调解人表示感谢，并表示他们正在努力敲定和解协议的细节。
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该校此前已与317名幸存者达成和解，和解金额超过6100万美元。许多前学生运动员签署了保密协议，其姓名未对外公开。根据其中一起诉讼的代理律师透露，受害者中不乏前NFL球员。
施特劳斯的两名指控者——前学生运动员史蒂夫·斯奈德-希尔和罗恩·麦克丹尼尔——曾于2018年接受《哥伦比亚广播公司早间新闻》采访，讲述他们与已故施特劳斯相关的经历。
“他是一名医生，”斯奈德-希尔在2018年7月接受《哥伦比亚广播公司早间新闻》采访时说道。“我当时只是一名学生，在他面前毫无防备。更糟糕的是，他让我脱掉了衣服，我就坐在他面前，一切都变得非常糟糕。”
斯奈德-希尔告诉《哥伦比亚广播公司早间新闻》，在他上报一起事件后，学生健康服务中心主任曾出具一封信，称该校“此前从未收到过有关施特劳斯医生的投诉”。
但麦克丹尼尔表示，施特劳斯的行为多年来早已是公开的秘密。
“我们以为告诉教练是在做正确的事，”麦克丹尼尔说道。“他们是体育部门的人，我们指望教练、训练师和医生能做出正确的处理。”
Ohio State reaches $100 million settlement with hundreds of victims of school doctor accused of sexual abuse
June 3, 2026 / 10:57 PM EDT / CBS/AP
Ohio State University agreed Wednesday to pay approximately $100 million to settle legal claims from hundreds of former student athletes who said they were sexually abused decades ago by a doctor at the university.
The school has fought lawsuits in federal court since 2018 brought by former student athletes against the university over its failure to stop abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss.
Strauss worked at the school from 1978 to 1998 and also ran an off-campus clinic. He died in 2005.
During a meeting Wednesday, the school’s Board of Trustees approved a preliminary agreement with all but one of the 280 survivors with claims still involved in pending litigation. Once finalized, the settlement could mark the end of a lengthy legal battle and close a painful chapter in the school’s history.
“The survivors of the Strauss abuse are all Buckeyes, will always be a part of our family and our community, and I firmly believe that,” the school’s president, Ravi Bellamkonda, said during the meeting. “We continue to be very grateful to them for their courage in coming forward, and reaching a final resolution is very important to us and is an important step forward.”
Years ago, an independent report had concluded that scores of Ohio State personnel knew of complaints about Strauss’ conduct as early as 1979 but failed for years to investigate or take meaningful action.
In a joint statement Wednesday, the university and plaintiffs thanked mediators and said they were working to finalize the details of the settlements.
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Ohio State already had settled with 317 survivors for more than $61 million, the school had said. Many former student athletes signed sealed agreements that kept their names a secret. Some former NFL players were among the victims, according to a lawyer in one of the lawsuits.
Two of Strauss’s accusers, former student athletes Steve Snyder-Hill and Ron McDaniel, spoke to “CBS Mornings” in 2018 about their experiences involving the late doctor.
“He was a doctor,” Snyder-Hill told “CBS Mornings” in a July 2018 interview. “I was a student. I went in there vulnerable. I was even more vulnerable because he had me de-clothed. And I’m sitting there in front of him. And everything’s going really badly.”
Snyder-Hill told “CBS Mornings” that after he reported an incident, the director of student health services wrote a letter saying it “had never received a complaint about Dr. Strauss before.”
But McDaniel said Strauss’ behavior had been an open secret for years.
“We thought we were doing the right thing in telling our coach,” McDaniel said. “They were the athletic department. We looked to the coaches, the trainers and the doctors to do the right thing.”
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