Oklahoma City — On Tuesday, August 13, at its first meeting since Commissioner Todd Hiett was replaced as chairman after allegations of public intoxication, drunk driving and sexual misconduct, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) heard from victims and advocates.
At the meeting, several spoke about the need to independently, thoroughly and publicly investigate when powerful people are accused of abusing their subordinates.
Jess Eddy, one of former OU President David Boren’s alleged victims at the University of Oklahoma, told commissioners how the abuse he suffered caused him to flunk out, develop a drinking problem and depression, and still affects him today at 34 years-old.
Eddy said reports from 2018 and 2019 containing the results of the University’s law-firm-led investigation into Boren’s alleged sexual misconduct are still being withheld from the public by the university more than five years later, leaving him in a “he-said-he-said” situation with respect to the public.