LANSING (MI)
Lansing State Journal
July 12, 2018
By Justin A. Hinkley
Thirty health care professionals were disciplined by Michigan licensing boards for sexual assault or misconduct in the last year, a State Journal investigation found.
The Michigan Department of Licensing & Regulatory Affairs received 238 allegations of sexual misconduct by health professionals between 2011 and 2016, state reports show.
One of the offenders was Larry Nassar, the now infamous former Michigan State University doctor imprisoned after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting patients.
Other offenders include an athletic trainer who assaulted high school students and videotaped them in the nude, a massage therapist who inappropriately touched multiple clients over several years and an occupational therapist who tried to put his hand down the pants of a patient with a traumatic brain injury, according to the State Journal’s review of disciplinary reports from May 2017 through May 2018.
The list of perpetrators includes men and women who committed crimes against patients and family members ranging from inappropriate relationships to rape.
The list shows Nassar was far from the fluke some defenders of MSU and USAG have said he was.
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