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Despite intense public pressure, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said he will not reopen the thousands of cases handled by Linda Fairstein, who was the chief of his office’s Sex Crimes Unit from 1976 and 2002 and helped to prosecute the Central Park Five. New York City officials, including New…
Cook County Judge Mauricio Araujo has a history of inappropriate and unwanted sexual advances toward the women working around him. Araujo made sexual advances toward a police officer seeking his signature on a search warrant, cornered a court reporter in an elevator and made demeaning remarks about a prosecutor, state…
Bronx teen, Mya Vizcarrondo-Rios, endured incessant bullying and even a sexual assault by two boys as a freshman on the honor roll at Harry S.Truman High School in New York City. The 16-year old was subjected to abuse for months before committed suicide by jumping 34 stories to her death…
He’s not paying any of it, and there’s a good chance the accusers will only get a part of it. Attorneys representing claims against Harvey Weinstein, his company and former associates have reached a $44 million settlement to resolve civil lawsuits over his alleged sexual misconduct. Over 80 victims originally were…
Harvard University announced that Professor Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. and his lecturer wife, Stephanie Robinson, will not return as faculty deans at the Winthrop House, an undergraduate residential house. Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana sent an email to staff and students on Saturday informing them the two would not return…
Sexual assault in the military has increased dramatically from 2016 to 2018, in spite of efforts to curb it. According to a study by the Department of Defense’s 2018 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military, there has been a 38 percent increase in assaults over the last two…
The Boy Scouts has a checkered and controversial past filled with homophobia and discrimination. The organization as a whole had policies for decades against allowing homosexual or transgender people to join the Boy Scouts, although individual troops can overlook the enforcement of the policy. In 2013, the organization finally allowed…
In 2016, a woman went to court to try and get a restraining order against a man she said sexually assaulted her. Unfortunately, she had to appear before Superior Court Judge John Russo, who sits on the bench in Ocean County in southern New Jersey. According to a transcript of…
CBS is paying for the office space that Les Moonves, who left the company in September amid sexual misconduct allegations, is using to build his two new businesses on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. Moon Rise Technologies, said, in a filing, that it planned to provide “streaming services and distribution,”…
CNN host Don Lemon is calling the switch of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s stories something straight out of President Trump’s playbook. Lemon referred to Trump’s apology for his “grab ’em by the p***y” comments, and then his later dismissal of it as “locker room talk,” as a prime example. Northam,…
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