ABOVE: Yale University campus
YALE UNIVERSITY/JACK DEVLIN
Former Yale Medical School psychiatry professor D. Eugene Redmond Jr. sexually assaulted five students while at a research facility on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, according to a report released Tuesday (August 20). Complaints of sexual misconduct and harassment were raised by three students in 1994, but an investigation failed to verify the accounts at the time. A complaint filed in March 2018 initiated a larger investigation by an independent law firm, revealing that Redmond assaulted or harassed at least 13 students over 25 years.
“The strongest corroboration for the assaults is the striking similarity between the students’ accounts of what happened, despite the fact that the incidents occurred years, and, in some cases, decades apart, and the students do not know one another or the nature of their individual accounts,” former US Attorney Deirdre Daly writes in her 54-page report.
Daly, now ...
