Another Boxer Arrested for Alleged Sexual Assault at Rio Olympics
An Olympic boxer has been arrested in Rio on sexual assault charges, Brazillian police said Monday. Jonas Junius of Namibia was arrested Sunday after the boxer “attempted to grab and kiss the cleaning...
View ArticleStanford Bans Hard Liquor From Undergraduate Parties
(PALO ALTO, Calif.) — Stanford University officials say hard liquor is now prohibited in undergraduate on-campus parties. President John L. Hennessy and Provost John Etchemendy announced the new...
View ArticlePetition Calls For Judge’s Removal After He Gave High School Athlete...
An online petition is calling for the removal of a Massachusetts judge after he sentenced an 18-year-old who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two women to two years of probation with no jail time....
View ArticleBirth of a Nation Actress Gabrielle Union Speaks On Nate Parker Rape Allegation
Birth of a Nation actress Gabrielle Union has spoken out in a new op-ed about the years-old sexual assault allegations against Nate Parker, the movie’s director. In the piece, published in the Los...
View ArticleBrock Turner, Convicted of Sexual Assault, Registers as a Sex Offender
Ex-Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, who spent three months in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a fraternity dumpster, registered as a sex offender in his...
View ArticleGabrielle Union on Her Sexual Assault Op-Ed: ‘We’re All Craving Acknowledgment’
“Tremendous.” That’s how actress Gabrielle Union — speaking at the Toronto Film Festival — described the response to an op-ed she wrote about her upcoming film The Birth of a Nation, the controversy...
View ArticleObama and Biden Won’t Visit Schools That Mishandle Assault
The Obama Administration has taken many steps to better handle sexual assault on university campuses, but the officials amped up their efforts by announcing that they will no longer visit campuses run...
View Article10-Month Old Girl Dies After Mother’s Boyfriend Rapes Her, Authorities Say
A 10-month old girl died this week in West Virginia after her mother’s boyfriend raped her, authorities said. The baby was found unresponsive on Monday in the basement of the family’s apartment...
View ArticleArianna Zucker on Donald Trump’s Lewd Comments: ‘I Choose to Stand Tall’
Arianne Zucker, the actress featured in the leaked video of Donald Trump making lewd comments about women, has responded to the firestorm around the Republican presidential candidate’s remarks this...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Lewd Comments Inspire Women to Share Sexual Assault Stories
When news broke on Friday of a leaked video that showed Donald Trump bragging about groping women and making lewd comments about them, many women decided they had enough. As the backlash started from...
View ArticleHere’s Everything You Need to Know About the Sexual Allegations Against...
After a tape leaked last week showed Donald Trump bragging about “grabbing women by the p-ssy” and saying “you can do anything,” the Republican nominee has been on the defensive about his alleged...
View ArticleSexual Assault Survivors Protest at Trump Tower
Dozens of women, many of them sexual assault survivors, gathered in front of Trump Tower Tuesday morning to kick off a series of nationwide protests urging women to abandon the Republican Party and...
View ArticleWhat Women Are Telling their Therapists About Election Stress
This campaign season, news of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been almost entirely unavoidable—and it turns out that’s true inside therapists’ offices, too. Surveys show most Americans are...
View ArticleU.K. Soccer Authorities Are Investigating Multiple Sexual-Abuse Allegations
Soccer’s apex body in the U.K., the Football Association, says it is launching an investigation into multiple allegations of sex abuse, and has appointed a lawyer with experience in such cases to...
View ArticleTrump’s New Administration Includes Two Accused Domestic Abusers
At least three men in the new Presidential administration have been accused of abusing women. Andrew Puzder, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Labor, was accused of punching, hitting...
View ArticleBill Cosby’s Lawyer Calls Sexual-Assault Allegations ‘Vague, Remote,...
(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) — Bill Cosby’s lawyers on Wednesday attacked what they called “vague, remote and often inconsistent” allegations from a slew of women whom prosecutors are seeking to call as...
View ArticleBrock Turner, Convicted of Sexual Assault, Registers as a Sex Offender
Ex-Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, who spent three months in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a fraternity dumpster, registered as a sex offender in his...
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