Hard to tell in this situation. I don't think the scope of what happened is really comparable to PSU. People on this thread are for sure judging based on politics on both sides. My only comment on it is if Jim Jordan was a waste disposal technician now his name would not have even been mentioned let alone being the most mentioned. No matter your politics that would seem pretty obvious. This was reported to have happened a long time ago.. I find it odd that none of these adults said a thing until now, even when the guy died nothing was said.
Now back in those days when a person was not quite right they were labeled as kind of creepy and it was understood. There would be rumors of this and that but it seemed nothing ever concrete was known. An example I know growing up as a kid was a guy involved with a kids group. He seemed a bit off, he would take the boys to go swimming at the lake sometimes but it was not planned so we would wear our undies or some even went skinny dipping. As kids we did not think anything of it, he stayed on shore. He would also have camp ins in the winter in an empty house. There was one kid who was kind of troubled and would get upset easily. The guy would take him to a different room than the rest of us to "talk" to him. We all thought it was odd but that's about it. One time the guy tried to get me to go to his room and my internal alert went off and I freaked out. I was never touched anywhere but just felt really creeped out. I insisted on calling my mom to come get me and I never went on another camp in. Probably ten years later the guy got caught molesting a young boy who was his neighbor and was sent to prison. Looking back as an adult it was clear the guy was a pervert. That said other than being creeped out me or the other kids never knew of a concrete incident of molestation. I have to assume he groped that troubled kid but I never saw it and the kid never said anything. I can assure you had I been an adult and he had tried something some bad shit would have happened to him.
In this case was the Dr. just giving people the creeps? Was it hey, Dr. X is a weird dude and creeps me out? Were there specific examples where he tried to perform such and such sexual act or just subtle things that made people feel weirded out? How was what he did communicated at the time? Did people come forward with accusations of specific abuse or just say the guy is a creeper?
I never told my mom I thought the group leader was a molester and at the time had no grounds to, I said he was weird. I'm not sure I really knew what was creeping me out, I just felt something was not right. I told her I did not want to go back there anymore and didn't.
This was what Hellickson said in one article. I have read where others state he said acknowledged it so not sure which is which.
“Neither Jim nor I would sidestep or avoid challenges for our wrestlers just because the circumstances were painful or uncomfortable — in fact, those are the kind of circumstances that motivated Jim the most,” reads the statement.
“At no time while Jim Jordan was a coach with me at Ohio State did either of us ignore abuse of our wrestlers. That is not the kind of man Jim is, and it is not the kind of coach that I was,” said Hellickson, who called Jordan “the most honorable man I have ever known.”
