Massage Therapist Ran Scheme Targeting Ohio State Football Players For Sex

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A 41-year-old female massage therapist working independently “who engaged in inappropriate and exploitative behavior targeting members of the Ohio State football team” has been banned from Ohio State’s campus and had her license permanently revoked by the State Medical Board of Ohio.

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An independent investigation by Columbus law firm Barnes & Thornburg, which interviewed 117 current and former Ohio State football players and 44 current and former Ohio State coaches and staff members, found that she “carried out a scheme for what appeared to fulfill her personal infatuation with Ohio State football student athletes.”

Though the investigation “did not reveal” that her “interactions with the football student athletes rose to the level of any crimes,” Ohio State says it shared the report with the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office.

Per the investigative report, 83 of the 117 football players interviewed had no knowledge of or interaction with the massage therapist. Of the 34 who did, “9 football student athletes either interacted with her over social media or directly knew about her from other football student athletes, 20 football student athletes received massages only, and 5 football student athletes acknowledged during interviews that they engaged in sexual activities with the massage therapist … All of the football student athletes who engaged in sexual encounters described them as consensual.”

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