Indiana attorney general faces hearing on future as lawyer

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The professional future of Indiana’s attorney general is at stake with a disciplinary hearing that threatens his law license after allegations that he drunkenly groped four women at a bar last year. A former state Supreme Court justice will open a perhaps weeklong hearing Monday on the professional misconduct complaint against Republican... Read More

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October 21, 2019

Indiana’s top lawyer faces hearing on groping allegations

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s attorney general faces a hearing over whether allegations that he drunkenly groped four women at a bar amounted to professional misconduct. Republican Curtis Hill disputes the claims from a state lawmaker and three legislative staffers that he inappropriately touched their backs or buttocks during a party celebrating the end of the... Read More

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Curtis Hill

October 18, 2019

Nanny gets 20 years for sex abusing child, having his baby

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A former live-in nanny has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for repeatedly sexually abusing a Florida child. She later gave birth to the boy’s son. News outlets report 28-year-old Marissa Mowry was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to sexual battery and agreeing to be designated a sexual predator. Authorities... Read More

Bad Parenting, Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse

October 17, 2019

Judge says lawsuit against Harvard law professor can proceed

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who went public with claims she was a teenage victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring can move toward trial with her defamation lawsuit against Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a judge ruled Wednesday as she disqualified a law firm from representing her. U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska... Read More

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Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Epstein

October 14, 2019

California Democrats pay $800,000 in sex-misconduct cases

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Democratic Party has spent more than $800,000 in legal costs tied to three lawsuits alleging discrimination and sexual misconduct by its former chair, Eric Bauman. The Los Angeles Times reports Saturday that the party has paid $430,000 in attorney fees and $378,348 in legal settlements in the three cases.... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse

October 14, 2019

Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun denies sex bias claims

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Hall of Fame basketball coach Jim Calhoun is denying allegations of sexual discrimination made by a former associate athletic director at the University of Saint Joseph, the Division III school where he now works. Calhoun says in a statement released Saturday by the school that he never “knowingly treated any woman... Read More

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Jim Calhoun

October 14, 2019

Law gives child sex assault victims more time to file suits

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse more time to decide whether to file lawsuits, joining several states in expanding the statute of limitations for victims over warnings from school districts that the new rules could bankrupt them. The law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom gives victims of childhood... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse

October 11, 2019

Documentary highlights rape allegations at Louisiana jail

At least a half-dozen women told authorities that deputies raped and trafficked them to male inmates inside a long-troubled jail in southwestern Louisiana, according to newly unearthed state and FBI records. The records offer a harrowing account of sexual assault being traded as currency in a contraband ring that pervaded the Jefferson Davis Parish jail.... Read More

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Necole Jean Guillory

October 10, 2019

Cuba Gooding Jr.’s groping trial set to begin on Thursday

NEW YORK (AP) — Cuba Gooding Jr.’s trial on groping charges is set to begin this week. The trial, which is scheduled to start Thursday, was postponed in September after prosecutors said they were still waiting for evidence in the Oscar-winning “Jerry Maguire” star’s case. Gooding’s lawyers argued against the delay. The actor is accused... Read More

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Cuba Gooding Jr.

October 10, 2019

Maryland man gets 12 years in prison for sharing child porn

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for distributing child pornography. The office of the U.S. Attorney in Maryland Robert Hur said Wednesday that 47-year-old Stephen Bayne Fields Jr. also must have supervised release for the rest of his life after leaving prison. Records show Fields pleaded guilty... Read More

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Stephen Bayne Fields Jr.

October 7, 2019

Without oversight, scores of accused priests commit crimes

Nearly 1,700 priests and other clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living under the radar with little to no oversight from religious authorities or law enforcement, decades after the first wave of the church abuse scandal roiled U.S. dioceses, an Associated Press investigation has found. These... Read More

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Catholic Church, Sexual Abuse

October 4, 2019

James Franco’s ex-students sue alleging sexual impropriety

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two actresses sued James Franco and the acting and film school he founded Thursday, saying he intimidated his students into gratuitous and exploitative sexual situations far beyond those acceptable on Hollywood film sets. Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, former students at the actor’s now-closed Studio 4, said in the lawsuit filed... Read More

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James Franco

October 1, 2019

Lawyers fight for everyday women bringing #MeToo complaints

Jaribu Hill didn’t opt for law school until her early 40s. She’d been a singer, actress, teacher and labor organizer before learning a college classmate had become head of a group for black female judges. “I can do that, too,” she thought. Hill has since become a leading civil rights and workers’ rights lawyer in... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse

October 1, 2019

Investigator: Archdiocese meeting obligation in abuse crisis

NEW YORK (AP) — An independent investigator praised the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York for its response to the sexual abuse crisis, saying no priest or deacon remains in ministry in the Manhattan-based archdiocese who has been credibly abused of sexual abuse. Barbara Jones, a former federal judge, said Monday she received “complete access”... Read More

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Catholic Church, Timothy Dolan

Indiana attorney general faces hearing on future as lawyer

Indiana’s top lawyer faces hearing on groping allegations

Nanny gets 20 years for sex abusing child, having his baby

Judge says lawsuit against Harvard law professor can proceed

California Democrats pay $800,000 in sex-misconduct cases

Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun denies sex bias claims

Law gives child sex assault victims more time to file suits

Documentary highlights rape allegations at Louisiana jail

Cuba Gooding Jr.’s groping trial set to begin on Thursday

Maryland man gets 12 years in prison for sharing child porn

Without oversight, scores of accused priests commit crimes

James Franco’s ex-students sue alleging sexual impropriety

Lawyers fight for everyday women bringing #MeToo complaints

Investigator: Archdiocese meeting obligation in abuse crisis

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