Survivor details how USC empowered campus doctor at center of sexual abuse scandal

Audry Nafziger:

I saw him in 1990. And I went to the health center. He invited me into his room. He closed and he locked the door.

I had very little experience with these types of medical exams, so I didn't know what to expect. And so, after he locked the door, he had me get on the table, disrobe, put my feet in stirrups, and proceeded to give me an examination without gloves.

He — during part of that examination, he asked to take photos of my body. He positioned my hands and helped me participate in those photos. And this was with an old .35-millimeter kind of camera. He told me it was for medical purposes, for treatment. He false-diagnosed me with a sexually transmitted disease that I learned to find later was untrue.

He went to the back of the room and dimmed the lights, and he started telling me a story about his time in the Philippines, and how he passed a woman around in a bar with a bunch of men. I mean, it's just unbelievable. He told me how they were performing oral sex on her. And he kept asking me over and over again from the back of the room, in the dark: "Audry, what do you think of this? What do you think of this?"

And he kept saying my name over and over again. And I just wanted to crawl up into a little ball and disappear. I didn't know what to make of that. I didn't know he was coming to get me. I didn't understand at the time what was going on. It was very frightening, a very frightening experience to endure.

I later took my records with me when I graduated I 1992 from USC Law. And I carried them with me. And I promised myself that I would report him one day, and I never did. Like so many other survivors of these types of offenses, I didn't know if anybody would believe me. It was just me and him in a room.

And, later, when I opened my file, I saw that the record was negative, that he done a lab test on me, and it came back negative, and all of it was a big lie.

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