A landmark, and pricey, legal settlement was awarded by the University of Southern California to hundreds of women who claimed that former student health center gynecologist George Tyndall sexually abused them, NBC News and MSN reported Friday.
A Los Angeles County Superior Court approved Thursday a deal that would grant 710 women allegedly assaulted by Tyndall in an $852 million settlement.
USC previously agreed to pay thousands of other students $215 million in a 2018 federal class-action lawsuit.
The sum totaling more than $1.1 billion is the largest sex abuse payout in higher education history.
However, some alleged victims are demanding more, calling for the criminal convictions of Tyndall and his alleged cohorts at the university, MSN reported.
The sole full-time gynecologist at the university's student health clinic from 1989 until 2016, Tyndall was accused of victimizing a generation of USC women.
Tyndall, 74, was stripped of his medical license after The Los Angeles Times revealed his troubled history at USC three years ago.
Authorities arrested him in 2019 and charged him with 18 counts of sexual penetration and 11 counts of sexual battery involving multiple young women.
Tyndall was also charged last year with five counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person and one count of sexual battery by fraud.
"I'm deeply sorry for the pain experienced by these valued members of the USC community.
We appreciate the courage of all who came forward and hope this much needed resolution provides some relief to the women abused by George Tyndall," USC President Carol Folt said in a statement.
Tyndall has pleaded not guilty to all charges and his trial is pending.
