fox 5's stacey cohang is live at the university in northwest washington with the details. stacey. reporter: the university does claim that they acted upon these complaints, but that has not stopd this group of students from suing howard university. here's what they say happened. some female students say they were part of a work/study program. that program was run by a man named george bright abo and these young women claim he used that program as an opportunity to sexually harass and sexual assault them. they further claim that when they went to university officials, the university did nothing to investigate and to protect them. >> around april mr. bright abo called me into his office, told me he wanted to speak with me with some work. he then started touching me and saying inappropriate things to me. >> i felt a certain way about it when i went into the university and now upon coming out, it's a completely different light. reporter: the women took their complaints to the metropolitan police department and bright abu has been charged with misdemeanor sexual assault, placed on 60 d

reporting live, i'm stacey cohang, back to you. >> stacy, thank you very much. >>> penn state held a town hall meeting last night to give students a chance to vent some concerns and frustrations regarding the sex abuse scandal that has rocked the campus. the president and other administrators were on hand to answer questions from the audience. just before that forum, a new student filed a new charge against assistant coach jerry sandusky. he says sandusky sexually abused him more than 100 times between 1992 and 1996 and threatened to harm his family to keep him quiet. that 29-year-old who filed the suit is not among the eight victims mentioned in the grand jury report. >>> congress is now launching an investigation into the mishandling of the bodies of war dead at the air force mortuary in dover. the main investigative panel in the house of representatives will meet today with the government whistleblower. the chairman of the house oversight committee is asking pentagon chief leon panetta for records going back to 2002. now, the committee also wants a list of everyone involved in han