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Maryland Lawmaker Seeks Change To Rape Law After BuzzFeed News Report
Police officers had cited the statute as grounds to drop rape cases without investigating them.
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Maryland Lawmakers Urge “External Review” Of Baltimore County Rape Cases
Two state delegates, Shelly Hettleman and Steve Lafferty, want to change how the Baltimore County Police Department handles rape cases after a BuzzFeed News investigation. They’re also “prepared to support legislation” strengthening Maryland’s rape law.
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Police Pledge “Fresh Look” At Rape Cases After BuzzFeed News Investigation
After BuzzFeed News found that Baltimore County detectives did not adequately investigate many rape accusations, the police department promises to “re-examine all unfounded rape cases that have occurred over the last three years.”
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This Police Department Tosses Aside Rape Reports When A Victim Doesn’t Resist “To The Best Of Her Ability”
Across the country, some police departments claim a vast number of rape reports are false. A BuzzFeed News investigation into a year of “unfounded” rapes in Baltimore County reveals that detectives often don’t investigate them at all — even when the man had been arrested for rape before.
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Stanford Sex Assault Judge Went Easy On Another Student Athlete
Judge Aaron Persky, under fire for his sentencing of former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, delayed sentencing for a domestic violence offender so he could play football in Hawaii. “They made it easy for him,” the victim told BuzzFeed News.
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Juanita Broaddrick Wants To Be Believed
The 73-year-old has said for decades that Bill Clinton raped her. Today, she’s a thorn in the side of progressives, including Hillary Clinton, who say rape victims have the right to be believed — and a gift for Donald Trump.
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Elite Private School Accused Of Shielding Sex Abuser
New court filings accuse Viewpoint School in Calabasas, California, of shielding a problem teacher who taught at other elite schools before pleading guilty to sex abuse last year.
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Hundreds Of Professors Sign Letter Condemning Yale Philosopher
Yale philosophy professor Thomas Pogge has “engaged in behavior that violates the norms of appropriate professional conduct,” states an open letter signed by over 200 of his peers. “Nothing is more important to our philosophical community than the trust he has betrayed.”
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Here’s The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read To Her Attacker
A former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman was sentenced to six months in jail because a longer sentence would have “a severe impact on him,” according to a judge. At his sentencing Thursday, his victim read him a letter describing the “severe impact” the assault had on her.
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Yale Professor Responds To Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct
Students have accused Thomas Pogge, a world-famous philosopher of global justice, of abusing his power. On Saturday, he released a statement addressing some of the claims.
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The Famous Ethics Professor And The Women Who Accused Him
Thomas Pogge, one of the world’s most prominent ethicists, stands accused of manipulating students to gain sexual advantage. Did the fierce champion of the world’s disempowered abuse his own power?
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Marlborough Retracts Victim-Blaming Filing In Sex Abuse Suit
An elite all-girls private school in Los Angeles has fired the law firm that argued a graduate was to blame for not speaking up sooner about sex abuse by a former teacher. The filing was first reported on by BuzzFeed News.
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Marlborough School: Sex Abuse Victim At Fault For Staying Silent
The L.A. all-girls private school says it isn’t liable for a former student’s sexual abuse by a teacher because the victim was “negligent and careless.”
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Sent Home From Middle School After Reporting A Rape
Can the campus anti-rape movement trickle down to middle and high schools, where students are much more vulnerable?
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Web Sleuths Unimpressed By New Arrest in Jessica Chambers Case
Authorities have charged a man with the murder of Jessica Chambers. But the wannabe internet detectives who have obsessed over the teenager’s brutal killing for more than a year, terrorizing her family in the process, aren’t logging off yet.
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Administrator At Iconic Comedy Theater Fired Over Sexual Harassment Allegations
The artistic director at the iconic iO West comedy theater was fired Friday following multiple allegations of sexual harassment.
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Iconic Comedy Theater Faces Sexual Harassment Controversy
iO Theater co-founder Charna Halpern recently sparked outrage when she criticized an unnamed woman for lying about reporting sexual harassment at the theater. A former iO intern said she’s the woman who made the report — and that she’s telling the truth.
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Standing Up To Sexual Harassment And Assault In LA’s Comedy Community
The exclusive story of how female comedians decided to take matters into their own hands and kick alleged assaulters and harassers out of their community — and the scandal that followed.
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She Was Raped By A Cop, Then Forced To Relive It
After she was raped by a sheriff’s deputy, Lindsay F. sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Even after her attacker was convicted, the department did everything it could to evade responsibility.
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Judge Hands Over Tape Woman Says Depicts Her Rape
The Virginia judge in Joaquin Rams’ murder trial will allow his defense attorneys to view a videotape that Lara McLeod, Rams’ ex-fiance’s sister, has said depicts Rams raping her. She has also said the tape was filmed without her consent.
