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1st female alleges sexual abuse by U of M doctor

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Cathy Kalahar addresses the media, Tuesday, July 14, 2020, during a news conference in Novi, Mich. Kalahar is accusing the late Dr. Robert Anderson of sexual abuse while she was a student at the University of Michigan in the 1970s. She is the first female to publicly say she was sexually abused by a team doctor at the school and says she hopes to inspire other women and men to come forward. Kalahar played tennis for the Wolverines in the 1970s. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

 

The first female to publicly say she was sexually abused by a team doctor at the University of Michigan says she hopes to inspire other women and men to come forward.

Cathy Kalahar played tennis for the Wolverines in the 1970s. She has joined hundreds of Michigan graduates who allege doctor Robert Anderson molested them. Anderson died in 2008. Kalahar told The Associated Press on Monday that Anderson assaulted her during an exam when she was a freshman in 1973.

She says a school counselor dismissed her complaint about the assault as a “sexual fantasy.”