NOVI, Mich. – The first female to publicly say she was sexually abused by a team doctor at the University of Michigan says she hopes to inspire other women and men to come forward.Cathy Kalahar, who played tennis for the Wolverines in the 1970s, joins hundreds of Michigan graduates who allege that doctor Robert Anderson molested them.
Anderson died in 2008.Kalahar told The Associated Press on Monday that Anderson assaulted her during an exam when she was a freshman in 1973.
She was a member of the school's first women's tennis team.“I really shut down and kind of put myself into a different space,” she recalled. “I wanted to crawl into the wall.