James Heaps was indicted last year on multiple counts each of sexual battery by fraud, sexual exploitation of a patient and sexual penetration of an unconscious person by fraudulent representation.
, who said he groped them, made suggestive comments or conducted unnecessarily invasive exams during his 35-year career.
Women who brought the lawsuits said the university ignored their complaints and deliberately concealed abuse that happened for decades during examinations at the UCLA student health center, the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center or in Heaps' campus office. UCLA acknowledged it received a sex abuse complaint against Heaps from a patient in December 2017 and it launched an investigation the following month that concluded she was sexually assaulted and harassed, attorneys said.
Heaps, however, continued to practice until his retirement in June 2018 amid the scandal. The universityHeaps' attorney and UCLA did not immediately return requests for comment Thursday. The verdict comes as the former campus gynecologist for the University of Southern California awaits trial on charges of sexual misconduct. USC last year
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