In January, victims' rights and women's groups sued Education Secretary Betsy DeVos who last year raised the standard of proof for accusers and allowed accusations to be settled by mediation between the accuser and accused. The lawsuit alleges the rules violate the federal law and discriminate ...
As more details of Bill Cosby's retrial emerges, there's a clear pattern of mocking and women-shaming by the Cosby defense team. Most recently, his representatives Andrew Wyatt and Ebonee Benson appeared on “Good Morning America,” during which they said that one of the accusers and friend ...
Prosecutors used Cosby's past admissions about drugs and sex, as well as the testimony of five other women, to back up accuser Andrea Constand's allegations. It's the only criminal case to arise from allegations from more than 60 women, according to the reports. The disgraced comedian first went to ...
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[email protected]). Winner of the ninth edition of Project Fame West Africa, Okiemute Ighorodje, was recently accused by a male Instagram user of using and dumping him. According to the man, he provided publicity services for Okiemute while she was in Project Fame and she ...
Victim shaming, ascribing ulterior motives to the accuser, character statements in favour of the accused, anger directed at the victim for embarrassment to the wife. With every tweet and Facebook post the perpetrator was allowed to recede into the background and the accuser was pilloried in the public ...
A sex abuse fantasist who sparked a disastrous £2.5m police investigation will face a private prosecution for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) fails to take action. Daniel Janner, a QC and the son of the late Lord Janner, said he would begin the legal ...
That's Andrea Constand, the Bill Cosby accuser whose sexual assault complaint brought down this week the man who was once called “America's Dad.” Cosby, 80, received a guilty verdict on three counts of aggravated indecent assault made by Constand. Sixty women reportedly have accused Cosby ...
The idea was that “all women have a right to be believed,” not just heard. It was on this theory that a variety of accusers managed to bring down everyone from Weinstein to Kevin Spacey, from now-former Senator Al Franken (D-MN) to California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D), and from disgraced ...
Soccer boss Danny Jordaan has laid criminal charges against singer and former Member of Parliament Jennifer Ferguson. On Friday he went to Sandton police station where he made a sworn statement, asking the police to charge Ferguson with defamation. In March, Ferguson laid a charge of rape ...
Soccer boss Danny Jordaan has laid criminal charges against singer and former Member of Parliament Jennifer Ferguson. On Friday he went to Sandton police station where he made a sworn statement, asking the police to charge Ferguson with defamation. In March, Ferguson laid a charge of rape ...
