NEW: Univ. of Southern California mishandled reports that a former student health center gynecologist repeatedly sexually assaulted female patients, which may have allowed abuse to continue for years, a federal investigation has concluded. - tylerkingkade
the university of violating Title IX in a few specific cases it reviewed but also found the university sometimes took months to issue decisions on cases, failed to tell students about all their rights in sexual misconduct cases and didn’t always detail how long investigations would take. The university agreed to a number of reforms that the department would monitor.
By the time the university announced an agreement with the federal government to end the earlier Title IX investigation in March 2018, the allegations against Tyndall had become so significant that the president was briefing trustees about it. However, the university still hadn’t told the Education Department about the situation.
According to the department, USC’s president and provost insisted to federal officials that they didn’t know much about the allegations against Tyndall other than what the university’s general counsel’s office told them — that the doctor’s misbehavior involved harassing words and outdated medical practices.
The university will also have to contact nine patients who complained of misconduct by Tyndall and"offer to remedy any sex discrimination caused" by Tyndall, investigate whether people who reported Tyndall faced retaliation and further review whether current and former employees took appropriate steps responding to warnings about the doctor.who saw him as patients.
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