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Rhiannon12866

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2. I've heard that a documentary's coming out about the sexual abuse that took place at Ohio State
Wed Jun 18, 2025, 07:27 AM
Jun 18

By the wrestling team doctor - which the coaches knew about, including Jordan. He declined to be interviewed for the film, but it's bound to be a serious embarrassment for him.


Rep. Jim Jordan knew about and shrugged off OSU wrestling sexual abuse, victims say

A new HBO documentary about the alleged cover-up of sexual assaults at Ohio State University by predator Dr. Richard Strauss alleges that Rep. Jim Jordan knew about the abuse at the time and failed to act.

Surviving Ohio State, produced by George Clooney, covers Strauss’s tenure at the institution from 1978 to 1998 and alleges that staff, including Jordan, then an assistant wrestling coach at the school, knew about Strauss’s conduct but did nothing to prevent it.

Jordan has always denied any knowledge of the matter but declined to be interviewed for the film, as did the university’s former wrestling coach, Russ Hellickson, and the Ohio State board of trustees.

The Independent has contacted the congressman for comment.

Dan Ritchie, who wrestled at the university from 1988 to 1992, said in the documentary that the doctor had a reputation for conducting unnecessary genital exams with ungloved hands, earning him mocking nicknames among the student body like “Dr Fun Boy” and “Dr Jelly Fingers.”

Ritchie alleges that Jordan, while serving as an assistant wrestling coach, addressed the rumors directly with his athletes, blustering: “If he ever did that to me, I’d snap his neck like a stick of dry balsa wood.”


Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-za/crime/general/rep-jim-jordan-knew-about-and-shrugged-off-osu-wrestling-sexual-abuse-victims-say/ar-AA1GWMHg?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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