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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Fourteen people reported rapes at Ohio State University in August, according to police logs mandated by the Clery Act. Campus police took four reports of rape, and Campus Security Authorities (CSA) took 10. Of direct reports to campus police, three happened in August and the fourth the previous December. Of CSA reports, six of […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Reports of rape to campus police dropped in May to four, compared to 11 reports in April. School also ended, with last final exams on May 3. The reports are tracked and published in a daily log in accordance with the Clery Act. One rape was reported directly to police. Campus Security Authorities reported […]

More rapes were reported at OSU with each passing year between 2018 and 2020, according to data made publicly available by the university.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio State University took six reports of rape in June, making a total of 38 rapes reported to campus police in the last six months, according to police logs mandated by the Clery Act. In 2021, 77 rapes were reported to campus police at the university. Locations for the rapes were, according to […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Enthusiastic consent eliminates doubt so there is no confusion over whether someone has said “yes” to sexual activity, an Ohio State University professor said. In November, six people at OSU reported being raped in on-campus residence halls. According to an NBC4 analysis, three rapes were reported in August, with two occurring […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The number of rapes reported at Ohio State University’s main campus in Columbus climbed steadily in 2018, 2019 and 2020, according to university reports and campus crime logs. In 2020, there were 134 rapes reported to either campus police or a Campus Security Authority (CSA), according to OSU’s federally required annual […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Seven rapes were reported to campus authorities in January, according to police logs kept by Ohio State University under the Clery Act. Although some of the locations of the rapes reported to police were undisclosed, one was documented as happening at Lincoln Tower, and another on East Woodruff Avenue. Two sexual […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Five people reported rapes at Ohio State University in December according to police logs, bringing the total rapes reported in 2021 to campus police to 77. In December, three of the sexual assaults are reported as being off campus. One is recorded with an unknown location, and the fifth is recorded […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A robbery and attempted rape near Ohio State University’s campus last weekend has students feeling on edge. According to the Columbus Division of Police, at about 11:40 p.m. Saturday, a woman asleep in her car on East 11th Avenue near North High Street woke to an unknown man entering her vehicle. […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Campus police at Ohio State University received 10 reports of rape during the month of March. Of the 10 rapes, three were reported as happening in March. Two were reported as occurring in February. Four rapes occurred in 2021, according to campus police logs. One rape occurred in 1996, the logs […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A Franklin County jury on Thursday found two former Ohio State University football players not guilty of kidnapping and raping a 19-year-old woman in 2020. On the fourth day of their trial, Amir Riep, 24, and Jahsen Wint, 24 were acquitted on all counts three years after being accused of sexually […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — In April, Ohio State University campus police received 11 reports of rape. The reports are tracked and published in a daily log in accordance with the Clery Act. Eight of the reports were said to have occurred in 2022. Three occurred in other years: two in 2021, and one in 2014. […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio State has reported more rapes in the past three years than any other Big Ten university, leading the other schools by far in rapes included the schools’ Annual Crime Reports mandated by the federal Clery Act. Ohio State has reported the rapes of 345 people from 2018 to 2020, more […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Parents and survivors of sexual abuse gathered at the Ohio Statehouse Thursday, calling on lawmakers to pass, among other things, statute of limitations reform to allow victims to seek damages — or criminal investigations — against their abusers and the institutions that housed them. Ohioans for Child Protection calls itself an […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio State University received 11 reports of rape during February. This compares with seven reports to campus police in January. In 2021, 77 rapes were reported to campus police in total. Of the 11 reported in February, two occurred in 2021, and one each occurred in 2019 and 2017. Locations listed […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Crime dropped in 2020 on the Ohio State University campus, according to a report out Friday, which the school said reflected a reduced campus population. But the number of rapes reported in 2020 remains high in comparison with other crimes. “Last year was unique in that our campus population was reduced […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Police are looking for two men in a robbery and attempted rape that occurred near Ohio State University’s campus Saturday night. According to the Columbus Division of Police, at about 11:40 p.m. Saturday, a woman was asleep in her car on East 11th Avenue near North High Street before being woken […]

CLEVELAND (WCMH) – Ohio’s U.S. Senate candidates – Democrat Tim Ryan and Republican J.D. Vance – traded barbs and sometimes responded to each other’s accusations Monday during a debate shown on NBC4. Ryan, who represents Ohio’s 13th U.S. House district, lambasted Vance as a “Silicon Valley vulture capitalist” with extremist beliefs. Vance, the “Hillbilly Elegy” […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Leadership at the Ohio State University says it’s working on new ways to prevent sexual violence — but what are they doing about assaults that have already happened? NBC4’s Jamie Ostroff says the number of rapes reported on OSU’s campus has been rising for years and reported on how the university […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A master’s student who’s been examining the history of sexual assaults at Ohio State said the university has implemented safety measures but more education needs to be done. In 2020, there were 134 rapes reported to either campus police or a Campus Security Authority (CSA), according to OSU’s federally required annual security report. […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The number of rapes reported each year on Ohio State University’s campus is on the rise. When NBC4 Investigates spoke to survivor Maeve Walsh, she said: “I think education is one of the most important things that Ohio State should improve — and needs to improve — in order to prevent […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A three-judge panel has ruled in favor of former Ohio State University students seeking compensation for the sexual abuse they endured at the hands of a former university physician. In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth District Court of Ohio found Wednesday that a district judge […]

ATHENS, Ohio (WCMH) — A rape was reported in a dorm at Ohio University, the second sexual assault to be reported over the weekend. According to an alert from the school, the Ohio University Police Department responded to a call from the hospital reporting a rape that happened in the early morning hours Sunday. The […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Six rapes were reported to campus police or to campus security authorities at Ohio State University in November. All of the rapes are reported to have occurred at on-campus locations. Five were reported to campus security authorities and one was reported directly to campus police, according to logs kept by campus […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A bill that would ban most abortions in Ohio, with no exceptions for rape or incest, was on the table Wednesday at the Ohio Statehouse. Representatives held their first hearing on House Bill 598 – the Human Life Protection Act. It would outlaw abortions in Ohio contingent upon any Supreme Court […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Women in Ohio are signing up to vote at “jaw-dropping” rates, new reports show. Since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its June ruling that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, Ohio women have outregistered men to vote by at least 8%, according to two separate analyses of state voter files. […]

INDIANAPOLIS — Kathleen DeLaney, the attorney for Dr. Caitlin Bernard, has sent a cease and desist to Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita stating he had made “false and misleading statements” about Dr. Bernard on Fox News along with in statements to local media that cast Bernard “in a false light and allege misconduct in her […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Ohio State University awarded $247,000 in settlements Friday to survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of a former university physician. The latest string of settlements, awarded to seven former students, brings Ohio State’s total monetary damages to $60 million split amongst 296 survivors who were sexually abused by Dr. […]

COLUMBUS, OhioSuspect reportedly messing with AC breakers (WCMH) – Weeks after a judge threw out hundreds of cases claiming sexual abuse at the hands of a former Ohio State University doctor, a pair of bills in the state legislature are proposing changes. Thursday morning, democratic representatives were flanked by sexual abuse survivors and advocates as […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — When a 10-year-old Ohio girl traveled to Indiana last month to end a pregnancy forced onto her by a rapist, several conservative politicians and TV pundits called the report a hoax. After horrific details confirmed the case was real, some tried a new tack: claiming, without evidence, that the child could have […]

ATHENS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio University Police Department is seeking help to bring in a man shown in security camera footage. The person is wanted in connection with a sexual assault. In two social media posts on Friday night, the Ohio University Police Department showed footage and appealed for help. In the second post, OUPD […]

NEW YORK (AP) — It took only four paragraphs in a regional newspaper to ignite a media conflagration over abortion that in two weeks engulfed President Joe Biden, the partisan press and some of the country’s top news organizations. In the center of it all: a 10-year-old rape victim, identity unknown, suddenly thrown into a […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An abortion ban is set to take effect in Indiana, which was the first state to pass one after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. When the law starts being enforced on Thursday, Indiana will join more than a dozen states with abortion bans, though most were approved before […]

The video above is Sunday, Oct. 23 episode of NBC4’s political show “The Spectrum with Colleen Marshall” where both candidates and the latest polling are discussed. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The showdown between Republican J.D. Vance and Democrat Tim Ryan is teeing up to be Ohio’s most competitive statewide race. With less than two weeks until […]

It took only four paragraphs in a regional newspaper to ignite a media conflagration over abortion that in two weeks engulfed President Joe Biden, the partisan press and some of the country’s top news organizations.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio’s six-week abortion ban will remain in place for now, after a Friday ruling came down from the state’s highest court. The Ohio Supreme Court dismissed several Ohio abortion clinics’ lawsuit two days after they filed. The clinics had asked the Republican-led court to halt the state’s six-week abortion ban, arguing […]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (WCMH)– Sexual assault victims of Dr. Richard Strauss marched in solidarity with other survivors of sexual assault ahead of Saturday’s game against Michigan in Ann Arbor. “The only thing that seems to matter to people is football, so we want to come here and protest on the day of the game to […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Ohio House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would strengthen the Reagan Tokes Act. Tokes was an Ohio State University student who was kidnapped, raped, and murdered while leaving her job in the Short North five years ago. The man responsible for the crime — Brian Golsby — was […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Carrie Lauterbach’s parents arrived at a Cincinnati fertility clinic more than 40 years ago. The couple, who struggled to conceive, were told to select with pen and paper an anonymous sperm donor who would eventually help them become parents to Lauterbach and her older sister. The clinic assured them that the […]

Editor’s Note: This story originally reported that Paul Neyer accused Father Geoff Drew of raping him while the priest was serving at St. Ignatius of Loyola. While Drew was investigated and later fired for inappropriate conduct with minors as a priest at St. Ignatius and other churches, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati explained that when the […]

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — The Ohio State University Police Division is bringing back a free program that teaches self-defense to women. Last year, the Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) courses were canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, OSUPD is offering four courses, all of which will last three hours, where the same self-defense […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana abortion clinic operators filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block the state’s ban on abortions before it takes effect in about two weeks. . The lawsuit filed in a Monroe County court claims the ban, which includes limited exceptions, “strips away the fundamental rights of people seeking abortion care” in violation […]

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Twenty-nine people have filed a new lawsuit against Ohio State University over its knowledge of sexual abuse against student-athletes by Dr. Richard Strauss. The lawsuit, filed Monday, includes six named plaintiffs as well as 23 anonymous plaintiffs. “The Ohio State University let a monster sexually abuse hundreds, perhaps thousands, of young men […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Columbus city leaders are celebrating the city’s 2022 crime rates being down in most areas compared to the last few years. Homicide rates are down by almost 33% and felonious assaults are down by 16%. But one area of crime that went up drastically across Columbus: car thefts. City leaders called […]

LEWIS CENTER, Ohio (WCMH)–Three high school seniors want every student in Ohio to learn self-defense skills, and they’re turning their idea into action. “When you learn how to protect yourself and how to defend yourself, you feel more prepared,” said Vaidehi Patel, one of the Olentangy High School students who started what they call The […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The former college athletes who claim an Ohio congressman covered up sexual abuse want a political newcomer to unseat him on Nov. 8. Some survivors of sexual violence at the hands of former Ohio State University physician Richard Strauss have taken their advocacy to Ohio’s 4th U.S. House District race, where […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – As laws restricting abortion pop up in state legislatures across the country, abortion rights and anti-abortion groups in Ohio await to see if the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade. It’s unclear what the future of abortion looks like, but the Ohio Right to Life is hopeful – and […]

Residents of at least 26 states now have no or severely limited legal access to abortion services, as of August 2022. Those who choose to travel to another state for the medical procedure will have to take on additional costs.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When the U.S. Supreme Court repealed in June a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, Wisconsin’s 1849 law that bans the procedure except when a mother’s life is at risk became newly relevant. Republicans in the Legislature blocked an attempt by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to overturn the law. Yet there’s […]

Some patients are especially fearful because the new abortion laws in several states don’t include exceptions for sexual assault.