Op-Ed: USC and prosecutors owe the public a full account of sex abuse inquiries (via latimesopinion)
More than three years have passed since the Los Angeles Times revealed that the University of Southern California knew that campus gynecologist George Tyndall had been accused for three decades of sexually assaulting students. We three survivors, along with thousands of other women he saw during his tenure, have waited patiently for the accountability and transparency that USC promised.
Prosecutors and investigators in both Michigan and Pennsylvania actively investigated not only the perpetrators of sex crimes but also, crucially, the university officials who made the abuse possible. Prosecutors knew these monsters were enabled by the systems around them and sought evidence of this additional criminal misconduct. Their work led to arrests, indictments and convictions reaching up through the highest levels of university administration.
Once the scandal was made public in May 2018, the chairman of the USC board of trustees, Rick Caruso, enlisted one of America’s largest law firms for what he said would be “.” He pledged that the inquiry would conclude by the time students returned for the fall semester and that the results would be made public.
In 2019, the Los Angeles County district attorney at the time, Jackie Lacey — widely known as an astute attorney and proud USC alum — declined to pursue charges against authorities at USC. Had she already concluded there was no need for police and prosecutors to even question them? To us, she seemed to be deliberately playing down the case despite Tyndall’s arrest and growing evidence of his abuses.
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