When Rocky Ratliff transferred to Ohio State University in Columbus to study political science and wrestle for the college in the mid-1990s, he soon found himself being sexually abused by a prominent member of the university athletic department’s medical staff.
At the time, Dr Richard Strauss, who is believed to have abused hundreds of student athletes over a period of decades at Ohio State, and who killed himself in 2005, would subject young men to intense abuse, including rape.
“I got inappropriate exams multiple times. With my high ankle sprain, I saw him almost every day for about a month,” recalls Ratliff, today a lawyer based in Marion, Ohio.
