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Huffington Post
The Huffington Post | by Kim Bellware
Accusations of sexual harassment are trailing a former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican who is set to take a post at one of the largest Catholic universities in the nation.
Miguel H. Diaz will join Loyola University in Chicago this summer, leaving behind the University of Dayton in Ohio, where last year he was accused of sexually harassing a married couple who were fellow UD professors, according to a new report from the college and Inside Higher Ed.
The Catholic theologian and married father of four is accused of “making various sexual requests and references to sexually explicit feelings,” according to a letter from the UD provost to the alleged victims that Inside Higher Ed obtained this year. According to the publication:
A “preponderance of evidence” led the outside attorney to conclude there was “reasonable cause to believe that some of [Díaz’s] conduct constituted sexual harassment that created an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment,” according to a letter sent to the alleged victims by Dayton’s general counsel.
Loyola first announced in February that Diaz and his wife would assume faculty positions at the university in the coming year.
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