LOS ANGELES (CA)
USA TODAY Opinion
March 4, 2019
By Elisabeth Treadway
I spent only 10 minutes with George Tyndall during my sophomore year in 1999 — an accused sexual predator employed by the University of Southern California as the sole gynecologist at the student health center. That short, seemingly insignificant amount of time would prove detrimental to my self-esteem and self-worth for the next 20 years of my life.
But those 10 minutes will not ruin the next two decades of my life.
No amount of money will ever change our past or heal our pain, but the settlement USC has agreed to is an important step in holding the university accountable. By finally acknowledging the hundreds of survivors, this settlement has allowed me to find purpose in my pain — to promote healing and to prevent this from ever happening again.
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