Post by longtimebooster on Sept 23, 2021 10:19:29 GMT -8
www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-21/san-jose-state-to-pay-1-6-million-to-athletes-over-handling-of-sex-abuse-allegations
San Jose State University has agreed to pay $1.6 million to more than a dozen female athletes, part of a settlement with the Department of Justice that found that the university failed to properly handle the students’ allegations of sexual abuse by a former athletic trainer.
The federal investigation found the university to be in violation of Title IX, a civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination at any federally funded education program. It found that San Jose State did not take adequate action in response to the athletes’ reports and retaliated against two employees who raised repeated concerns to the university about Scott Shaw, the former director of sports medicine.
The Justice Department and San Jose State have identified 23 women who allege they were inappropriately touched by Shaw. Thirteen of those women have accepted the Justice Department’s offer of $125,000, which will be paid by the university. In reviewing rosters from 2009 to the present, the Justice Department estimates that roughly 1,000 women student athletes could have been exposed to treatment by the trainer.
