BS: women get lots of money for sexual harassment

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  1. kazenatsu

    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u...assed-by-ex-provost/ar-BB1b8BR5?ocid=msedgntp

    The University of Michigan paid out $9 million in settlement money to 8 women who say they were sexually harassed by the chief academic officer of the school.

    That's over $1 million for each woman.

    This is ultimately taxpayer money that these women will be getting. Money that is not going to educating students.

    Yes, other officials in the university may be at fault for not doing anything, but who is paying for this compensation?

    Not to mention the fact that it is obviously grossly excessive.


    It seems progressives have a general mentality where they are looking for any excuse to hand out free money. Every injustice is an excuse to hand out tons of taxpayer money, and make some individuals win the proverbial lottery.

    You can't even argue you're "against inequality" if you support giving these women $1,125,000 each.

    This is asinine, absurd, insane, and it all stems from an entitled mentality that exists out there.
     
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    Judge approves $73 million settlement for thousands of women abused by former UCLA gynecologist

    Thousands of women sexually abused by a former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, will split the $73 million settlement, which received final approval by a judge on Monday.

    Some 6,000 women in recent years have come forward to accuse James Heaps of inappropriate conduct during his decades of employment at UCLA. He worked part-time as gynecologist at the university’s student health center from 1983 to 2010, and was later hired by UCLA Health in 2014.

    According to the 2019 class-action suit, which details accusations from 1983 to 2018, the former doctor groped women, simulated intercourse with an ultrasound probe or made inappropriate comments amid examinations at the UCLA student health center.​

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/j...er-ucla-gynecologist/ar-AAM79vm?ocid=msedgntp

    The doctor himself who allegedly committed the wrong is not the one who is going to be paying that $73 million.


    If I were in charge, these judges would be fired for mental incompetence.


    article continues:

    The suit additionally took aim at UCLA, accusing university officials of having a "policy of indifference" to reports of sexual misconduct and turning a blind eye to Heaps’ behavior - despite multiple complaints.

    The university did not acknowledge wrongdoing in reaching the settlement.

    More than 100 of Heaps' former patients had made allegations or filed individual lawsuits, but the class-action suit includes all potential victims. Each will receive between $2,500 and $250,000, with the higher amounts involving the extent of bodily injury and emotional distress as decided by a panel of experts.

    Yeah, I bet these women are just looking for an excuse to have their college loan debt paid off.
     
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    Two hospitals affiliated announced Friday that they had reached a $165 settlement with 147 patients of a former Manhattan doctor who has been accused of sexual abuse and misconduct.

    Former gynecologist Robert Hadden was indicted on federal charges in 2020 after dozens of women said he sexually abused them between 1993 and 2012. He is awaiting a federal trial. Before Hadden’s federal indictment, he pleaded guilty in 2016 to a criminal sex act in the third degree and forcible touching, but in a deal with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., Hadden avoided prison time, instead surrendering his medical license and registering as a sex offender.

    According to statements from Columbia University Irvine Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, he has not practiced medicine since 2012.​

    Hospitals to pay nearly 150 patients who say gynecologist abused them, Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, October 8, 2008

    That settlement works out to be over $1,122,000 for each woman!

    This is absurd. The hospital is not even the one who should be seen as mainly responsible, but they're just going after the hospital because they're the ones who have the deep pockets.

    And the officials who agreed to pay out all this money, what do they really care? It's not actually their money. This seems like it probably may have been a very emotionally-driven decision.

    First of all, accused men should NEVER have to pay out money for an alleged sexual assault unless perhaps if the evidence is solid and overwhelming. Sure, give them some prison time, but it's wrong to be paying out money based only on allegations of some women, each giving separate accounts of individual accusations.
    This doesn't even appear to be actual "rape" (involving actual intercourse), rather sexual misconduct.

    Over the past 10 years, patients of Hadden have been coming forward more and more, said attorney Anthony T. DiPietro, who has represented more than 200 women accusing Hadden of assault.
    "Many of those women don't even know they were being sexually exploited," DiPietro said.

    Governor Kathy Hochul (Democrat) of New York signed the "Adult Survivor's Act" into law in May. The legislation allows people older than 18 to sue their alleged abusers during a one-year window from next month through November 2023 regardless of a statute of limitations.
    This is insane! There's a very good reason why that statute of limitations was supposed to exist in the first place!
     
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