NEW: Columbia University has agreed to a $750M settlement with nearly 600 patients of Robert Hadden, a former doctor who sexually abused them while working at the school. A 2023 ProPublica investigation revealed how the school shielded the OB-GYN for decades. - ThreadSky

propublica.org • 16 days ago

NEW: Columbia University has agreed to a $750M settlement with nearly 600 patients of Robert Hadden, a former doctor who sexually abused them while working at the school.

A 2023 ProPublica investigation revealed how the school shielded the OB-GYN for decades.

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lonnietoft.bsky.social•15 days ago

Now here’s a case that the knee bending big law firms can sink their teeth into for Donald Trump. For a Columbia U. doctor, no less.

svander001.bsky.social•16 days ago

Turns out Columbia University hasn’t had a shred of integrity for a very long time.

misskachoob.bsky.social•16 days ago

Well done journalists! You should be entitled to a piece of that!

robertadawn.bsky.social•16 days ago

Columbia will probably just buy 1 million in Trump coin to get a full pardon leaving its victims with zilch.

ritaswartz.bsky.social•15 days ago

I think we need to up the visibility and research on the short- and long-term effects on sexual assault on victims. Men will never get it through their thick dickheads just how life-changing and damaging rape and other sexual crimes are to victims. They will always cover for other men.

ttgrinder404.bsky.social•16 days ago

Not gay/trans/immigrant/autistic -the threat is inside the house, w a convicted SA felon at the head of our country

nikitakitty.bsky.social•16 days ago

Columbia’s future is cooked.

tree03.bsky.social•16 days ago

What the fuck is wrong with so many men?

kevinlmcknight.bsky.social•15 days ago

Columbia University has now entered most-tainted status.

arubamas.bsky.social•16 days ago

From capitulating to trumpism, to protecting a serial predator, this is not a good timeline for Columbia University's reputation.

acunningham-poetry.bsky.social•15 days ago

Free-Media sufferag-ing Information; freely for-centering "that appalling man".

(imagine "them" ~words: "that"-and-"man" smaller-font Siz-ed, please.)

anneresisting.bsky.social•16 days ago

Isn't it great that Columbia has this kind of money to blow? And how much is tuition now?

houfek.bsky.social•15 days ago

Ah so when Columbia isn't harboring antisemites it's harboring molesters. Cool, cool.

thiafin.bsky.social•16 days ago

😪💔

propublica.org•16 days ago

Read our original investigation (published Sept. 2023 w/ @nymag.com):

erinarvedlund2024.bsky.social•16 days ago

this story made it all come down

rthonministerosnrk.bsky.social•16 days ago

so not surprised

deblavoy.bsky.social•16 days ago

Columbia is having a bad day

bodelaire.bsky.social•15 days ago

Male docs, priests & pastors, male presidents, male media mucky mucks, the man sitting in the airplane seat next to you…not to minimize women abusers, but come on.
Why are there still no effective safeguards to reduce the incidence of men in positions of power from sexually abusing women &children?

hellomuself78.bsky.social•16 days ago

https://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/

thiafin.bsky.social•16 days ago

🤬

ireadnewspapers.bsky.social•16 days ago

Great work.

kimmclarin.bsky.social•16 days ago

I already subscribe but I am going to give you guys more money.

Just extraordinary work.

Keep going.

newyorkroz.bsky.social•16 days ago

Fits right in with Columbia's culture. Bending the knee to Trump, failing to protect some students from abduction, it's all part of their brand.

haydenatl.bsky.social•15 days ago

yall be winning like everything?!? How do you do it?!? Literally so good 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

vicvinegar2024.bsky.social•15 days ago

Another white christian male using his authority to molest and torment .Pope approved!

feemus.bsky.social•15 days ago

Columbia has set itself up for a catastrophic plunge in recruitment/enrollment. This is anecdata, but I know grad students and faculty who are appalled & trying to transfer/get other jobs.

kevinwoj.bsky.social•16 days ago

My god, Columbia…take a sabbatical

susanovans.bsky.social•16 days ago

Thank goodness for ProPublica!

wewillbreathe.bsky.social•16 days ago

Trump will pardon him!

stlcatfishmike.bsky.social•16 days ago

They never had him arrested though.

salnitrum.bsky.social•16 days ago

I don't know why schools protect molesters and sexual abusers. They never stop, the victims pile up, and the cost to the school exponentially increases over time. It's like paying bad debt with a high interest credit card. They never escape paying, and just pay significantly more.