From the Bruin: Four more former students filed a sexual abuse lawsuit against retired UCLA OB-GYN Edward Wiesmeier and the University of California. The lawsuit filed Monday is the second against Wiesmeier and the UC Board of Regents, following a sexual abuse suit filed Dec. 9 with one plaintiff. The new lawsuit alleges that Wiesmeier sexually harassed the four plaintiffs and performed medically unnecessary touching during examinations.
Other former patients have until Friday to file a lawsuit if they were sexually abused while receiving gynecological services from UCLA. The statute of limitations for victims of UCLA Health physicians was extended from its normal expiry of 10 years to the end of 2021 by California Assembly Bill 3092 last September. Wiesmeier was previously a UCLA OB-GYN between 1974 and 2007 and was the assistant vice chancellor for student health between 1981 and 2006...
Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2021/12/30/former-students-file-2nd-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-against-retired-ucla-ob-gyn.
Our earlier post on this story is at:
https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2021/12/repetition.html.
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