Ohio State Finds Team Doctor Sexually Abused 177 Students in the 70s/80s/90s - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/sports/ohio-state-sexual-abuse.html After his actions were finally reported, he was suspended and then removed from his post, but he remained a tenured faculty member. Dr. Strauss then opened an off-campus clinic and continued to abuse students. He will not face justice since he died in 2005 of suicide.

Coward.

Rep. Jim Jordan is involved in this

he said he heard nothing, which is understandable given that this is exactly how he treats his constituents as well.

I voted against him but this state is filled with morons who have absolutely no idea how the real goddamn world works and think that abortion is the only important issue in the fucking world

Why do I have the feeling I've heard this guy's name before in a similar context?

he was the assistant coach when this guy was molesting kids and like 3 dozen former athletes have said they told him directly about it and he told them to suck it up. he denies ever hearing of anything but then again he's a piece of trash that gets elected because of his massive state spanning district

I always see comments like this when this sort of thing happens, and I have no clue what the point is. Would your opinion of this person who has molested nearly 200 people have significantly improved if he had said, "yeah, bring on the jail motherfuckers, I can take it?" I don't think you're going to find much overlap between serial molesters and people eager to spend the rest of the rest of thier lives as in prison to sate thier victims need for justice.

Obviously it wouldn’t apply to this case, but weren’t there a few rare cases of people who committed suicide after having their lives ruined by unsubstantiated accusations?

Definitely, and you’ll never catch me saying something like this if the case wasn’t airtight. This guy was a fucking monster and should have had to face what he did, not take the cheap way out.

If you believe the role of justice is for revenge and causing harm to those who have harmed you, sure. If you view justice as serving a utility and concerned with rehabilitation, or view the right to your own self-determination as being a fundamental right, it doesn't really matter that he killed himself.

Or maybe I just believe in the concept of justice itself? Nowhere in my posts did I say I wanted this man dead, only that he was a coward for taking the suicide route.

You believe in what you believe is justice. That's just a tautology. If he's a coward for taking the suicide route, that's because you feel the non-suicide route would be more punishing and more painful for him. Instead of trying to argue that you're not saying what you are saying, you should have the courage to admit that you believe that suffering is a goal and product of your preferred justice system.

Absolutely not. Stop trying to put words in my mouth that aren't there.The entire reason I'm calling him a coward is because he chose to avoid answering for his crimes. Does "answering" mean some kind of medieval torture, or being made to rot in a cell for the rest of his life? No, not necessarily. Maybe it means him genuinely coming to terms with how horrific what he did was and, like you suggested, being rehabilitated. Maybe anything that would bring his victims closure for everything he did. I'm not some sadistic fuck that believes in the deterministic torture of other people, and I never have been. Instead, you're here deciding to warp everything I'm saying for... why, exactly?

It sounds like he drove himself to suicide. Allegations came out in the mid-late 1990s but nothing really came of them except for this investigation which only really seemed to have picked up steam more lately. After he was let go he still retained his faculty position honorarily and set up a private men's health clinic nearby (where he still abused patients btw) until he killed himself in 2005. It sounds to me more like his conscience combined with the allegations caught up to him when he was in no danger of having to go to trial or any such thing, and he so he killed himself. I think death combined with erasing the guy from the history books is more than punishment enough.