David MacAnally/Eyewitness News
Terre Haute, October 29 - On university campuses, human sexuality is a topic. Indiana University has one of the world's best known sex research institutes.
In Terre Haute, at Indiana State, there are questions about a now defunct sex research lab run by former professor and psychologist Jerome Cerny.
The Indiana Attorney General has suspended his license. "We felt that Dr. Cerny represented a clear and immediate danger to the public heath and safety become of the sexual allegations levied against him," said Deputy Indiana Attorney General Barclay Wong.
Professor Cerny was studying human sexual response in his male students but, according to civil lawsuits and state investigators, he stepped way over the line.
He basically abuses his role as a supervisor and researcher towards these students," said Wong."The allegations are of both a physical and verbal nature."
He allegedly touched the genitals of student subjects as he attached them to diagnostic machines. Even unwanted touching and grabbing in the hallways.
According to Wong, most of the people that Dr. Cerny molested were not official research participants. No consent forms had been signed.
Cerny left Indiana State last year. He and the university now face civil suits.
