George Tyndall, the former campus gynecologist at USC, must stand trial on charges of assaulting 16 patients.
George Tyndall, the onetime University of Southern California campus gynecologist accused of preying on a generation of female students, will stand trial on sex crimes charges related to 16 former patients, a judge ruled Friday.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler said prosecutors presented enough evidence in a series of hearings for Tyndall, 76, to face a jury.
That trial is expected to take place next year.
Tyndall, who practiced at the campus health clinic for three decades, is charged with 27 felonies — 18 counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person and nine counts of sexual battery by fraud. The alleged crimes occurred between 2009 and 2016.
Prosecutors initially filed charges in 2019 related to 21 former patients, but had to drop counts related to five women. “We were unable to make contact with one victim … and four victims advised us that they were opting out of the case,” said Deputy Dist. Atty. Reinhold Mueller, the lead prosecutor, in an email.
Tyndall’s lawyer Leonard Levine said his client is “looking forward to” the trial.
“He believes he will be exonerated after a fair trial, which he expects to get,” Levine said.
The Times revealed in 2018 that Tyndall had been the subject of numerous complaints from staff and patients during his 27 years at the clinic.
