Ex-Michigan football star says he was abused by a team doctor. Now he’s demanding answers.

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Jon Vaughn, a former running back at the University of Michigan, is one of the hundreds of university alumni who say they were sexually abused by the school’s former sports doctor.

Jon Vaughn, a star running back for the Michigan Wolverines in 1988 and 1989, is one of the hundreds of university alumni who say they were sexually abused by the school’s former sports doctor.

“Nassar’s and Anderson’s methods were virtually identical: abuse under the guise of medical treatment,” said Parker Stinar, an attorney for some of the men suing Michigan for damages. Photos of Dr. Robert Anderson, a former University of Michigan sports doctor, outside the university president's home.John Sellek, a spokesperson for the survivors, said Vaughn took it upon himself to stage a public protest against a university that so far has apologized for failing to rein-in Anderson, who died in 2008, but still has not reached a settlement with the 850 largely male accusers it has been in mediation with for a year.

“I just thought that this is what was par for the course for an exam at Michigan to play on their football team,” Vaughn told Since then, Vaughn has been one of the most vocal critics of his alma mater’s leadership and has forged a friendship with, who alleges he was booted off the wrestling team in 1975 after he complained to his coaches about what Anderson was doing.

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