innocent until proven guilty

but then why the payoff?

two university of missouri-kansas city professors are accused of sexual harassment after they allegedly "created a hostile environment by seeking sexual favors, circulating torture videos and pornography, and physically intimidating female lab students and employees."

In often graphic terms, the suit described an environment at the lab, then known as the Health Research Group, in which women were groped, fondled, subjected to explicit sexual comments and sexual advances, and generally made to understand that they needed to go along with the professors’ behavior if they wanted to advance their careers.

five complainants, two million-dollar payoffs. i don't like jumping to conclusions, but this one is tough to ignore. and yet somehow these disgusting specimens got promoted into professorships. everything that's wrong with the world is in this story.