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Ohio Jury Awards Over $10 Million to Victims in a Sexual Abuse Case

Ten women in Fairfield County were awarded more than $10 million in a sexual abuse case involving a massage therapist in Lancaster.

The original lawsuit, filed in 2021, claimed customers at Natural Remedies Massage a holistic health spa based in Lancaster, had been sexually abused by massage therapist Matthew Schaitel between 2019 and 2021. Of the 11 women who came forward and shared their stories, 10 proceeded to trial.

During the nine-day trial, jurors heard the accounts of victims who said Schaitel had touched them inappropriately during massages, claiming the action to have been therapeutically appropriate.

Read the source article at Fox 28

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