At a university in the United States, a male doctor pretending to be a student for repeated sexual abuse, the university has given a settlement fee of about 56 billion yen in Japanese yen to more than 1000 people who are complaining of damage. I agreed to pay.
The university says that it will continue to investigate, considering that some victims will file new complaints in the future.
The University of Michigan in the Midwestern United States was suing on the 19th for repeated sexual abuse of students by a male doctor who belonged to the university from the 1960s to 2003, pretending to be a treatment for students. Announced that it has agreed to pay about 1050 students a settlement fee of 490 million dollars and 56 billion yen in Japanese yen.
The doctor died in 2008, but the university found that sexual abuse had been repeated as a result of conducting an investigation after receiving complaints from graduated students, and the university recognized a series of actions. However, he concluded that he did not deal with it properly.
The university says that it will continue to investigate, considering that there are other victims who will file new complaints other than the students who have agreed to pay the settlement fee this time.
In the United States, sexual abuse by coaches and doctors of university sports teams is occurring, and there are a number of cases where the university pays a huge amount of settlement money.