The Federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has received multiple complaints concerning potential Title IX violations by the University of Toledo, according to a person familiar with the case. The complaints followed a Guardian investigation involving allegations of sexual assault, sexual harassment and emotional abuse by a past coach of the university’s soccer program.
The Office for Civil Rights said it did not comment on specific cases but it appears – based on internal emails from OCR acquired by the Guardian – that an area of interest is how the University of Toledo’s Title IX office did not adequately address allegations against former women’s soccer coach Brad Evans when it was informed of an alleged sexual assault of an assistant coach and emotional abuse of players.
