George Tyndall, former USC gynecologist accused of abusing hundreds of women, found dead
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George Tyndall, the former University of Southern California campus gynecologist accused of sexually abusing hundreds of women, was found dead Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, his attorney told ABC News. He was 76.
Tyndall was found deceased in bed by a close family friend who went to his home after being unable to reach him, according to attorney Leonard Levine. It was the friend's opinion that Tyndall had been dead for quite a while, Levine said Thursday.
An autopsy is expected to be conducted, but Levine and the friend believe Tyndall died of natural causes.
In March of 2021, USC agreed to an $852 million settlement with more than 700 women who accused Tyndall of sexual misconduct.
Well that’s a bummer. He deserved a much worse death than natural causes.
Agreed. While on a rational level, I try not to be swayed by revenge, repeat criminals of violent crimes like this eventually get to a point where they are absolutely beyond redemption. Especially if they aren't caught until they've already lived most of their life, so even if there could be some kind of rehabilitation, that person's potential impact on society has already happened and was judged to be a net negative.
Beyond that, however, the biggest tragedy is not having a trial where at least some of the survivors might have gotten some form of finality. I hope they can get that out of his death and the knowledge he can no longer hurt anyone ever again.
I hope the grass grows green over his grave, watered by the spit of every visitor.
If he had died decades ago, a lot fewer lives would've been wrecked.
From a USA Today article:
After pleading not guilty in August and living free on bond, the 76-year-old's criminal trial was set to take place next year with many victims expected to testify. He was charged with 27 felonies including 18 counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person and nine counts of sexual battery by fraud. If convicted, he could have faced up to 64 years in prison.
https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-usc-doctor-misconduct-complaints-20180515-story.html
I read this and it seemed like a pretty thorough accounting but I didn't see anything that sounded like sexual assault on the "unconscious patients" that he's charged with..?
I can't be the only one who misread the comma and thought the gynecologist was abusing hundreds of dead women?
What the hell is a "campus gynecologist"?
Is that some US healthcare shenanigan because students can't go to regular doctors for some reason?
Some universities offer medical services on campus. Basic services will often be covered by tuition.
Do you really think it's strange for a large university with a large medical center to offer services to its students?
Yes, I think that's increadibly strange.
That a hospital at a university would offer services to the students at that university? Really?
You don't think it would be convenient for students living at a university with a hospital to get their healthcare at that hospital?
Like someplace they can walk, rather than getting transported someplace farther away?
Seems like going to the closest place for healthcare would be convenient.
Yes, really. It has a really fucked up "company town" vibe. Visting your doctors is something private, studying at uni is your education/job. It's weird to mix those.
And most students just need to see their GP and don't require care from a university hospital.
Do you think they don't have GPs there? Do you think that none of the students have traveled across the world from their former GPs such that it would be impractical to return to them for every little thing? Do you think faculty and staff might also find it convenient to not have to leave the campus to get healthcare from a prestigious institute of healthcare (as all university hospitals are).?
And, you mean the public university's hospital, which like all university hospitals are a paragon of education, is somehow a company store?
Is the campus dining hall also part this? Are the dorms company housing? What about the bookstore and the coffee shop?
Are you telling me people move accross the country and then don't find themselves a local doctor? And how does this work on univerities where there is no hospital?
See, all students need to eat every day at roughly the same time, so a centralised cafeteria makes sense. Not all students need to see their doctor everyday at the same time. So that makes no sense.
Yes, American dorms are also very strange.
The university healthcare center is the local doctor. That's the point. They'll also be specialized for the needs of young adults.
All the students need to sleep as well. That's not different. It's also an opportunity to provide inexpensive, subsidized housing, without requiring yet more people to enter and leave the campus every day. Transportation is the major problem of a university.
And dude, I'm not the ones down voting you. You're just not yet getting how strange you seem despite strong arguments to the contrary.
Yeah, that guy from the article sure specialised in young adults.
Usually something you do at home, not at University. And you can still have inexpensive, subsidized housing without on-campus dorms.
More like a general problem of American city planning. Try trams.
Thanks for you inputs, but your points are not making this any less strange.
You think American universities don't already have bus systems to deal with this problem?
You don't think that no matter where you put the university subsidized housing, that will be the university, kinda by definition?
You don't think this model is familiar all around the world?
Apperently insufficent.
No. You should double check your definition on that.
No.
Ok. I'm just going to break it to you gently.
This is the exact same thing that happens in European universities. Like exactly. All the problems and solutions are almost exactly the same. There is no difference.
Like exactly.