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Former Aide Accuses Cuomo of Sexual Harassment

"Ms. Boylan described her experience working for Mr. Cuomo as 'beyond toxic' and 'endlessly dispiriting.'" Lindsey Boylan, who is now running for Manhattan borough president, said the governor would often discuss her physical appearance when she worked for him. The New York Times – A former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Sunday accused him of sexual harassment, asserting that the governor would often discuss her physical appearance, something she said occurred over the course...

FL Man Drops Cigarette Butt, Faces Life In Prison

"Kidnapping is a violent crime that is charged as a first degree felony offense in Florida, and a defendant convicted of this offense may face up to 30 years to life in state prison." – Michael Mirer, criminal defense attorney, South Florida Fox News – A Florida man was arrested Wednesday in the 1998 kidnapping and rape of a 22-year-old woman, investigators said. James Byrd, now 60, was arrested on charges of armed kidnapping and sexual battery. Investigators...

MLB Umpire Arrested In Sex Ring Bust

Fox News – Major League Baseball umpire Brian O’Nora was one of the men arrested in Ohio in a sex sting operation over the weekend. O’Nora, 57, of Youngstown, was arrested along with 13 other men in Liberty Township. The local police department conducted the sting with the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force. O’Nora and the men were charged with third-degree misdemeanor soliciting and first-degree misdemeanor possession of criminal tools. TMZ Sports was the first to link...

Longtime Confidante Says Clinton Visited Epstein’s Island, Likens Bill’s World To A ‘Cult’

Dec 2, 2020 Fox News – Doug Band, who served as Clinton's right-hand man for years after he left the White House, told Vanity Fair the 42nd president visited Little St. James, the Caribbean island where Epstein allegedly trafficked underage victims. Clinton has denied visiting Epstein's island, and a spokesperson provided the outlet with "detailed travelogue entries of the period in question that did not contain a visit." Epstein's death last year sent shockwaves through the media...

This Body Part May Show First Signs Of Domestic Abuse

PLUS: He “poured lighter fuel on her genital area and lit her on fire” This injury a possible sign of domestic violence | Nov. 30, 2020 | HealthDay News – As many as one-third of adult women who have a particular fracture to their forearms may be victims of intimate partner violence, according to a new study. The findings underscore the need to screen women who receive fractures to their ulna for possible intimate partner violence, researchers said. That...

Female Genital Amputation Ban Advances

"In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control published a report estimating that 513,000 girls and women in the U.S. were at risk or may have been victimized by FGM/C." Washington, September 21, 2020 U.S. Representative Scott Perry (PA-10) applauded the passage of legislation in the House that changed our criminal code to ensure the successful future prosecution of those who perpetrate Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C). Congressman Scott Perry said: “FGM/C is an especially heinous practice that...

Wife-Beating Surges, Feminists Stage Topless Protest

"Too often women are offended, mistreated, raped and forced to prostitute themselves ... If we want a better world, a home of peace and not a courtyard of war, we all must do much more for the dignity of each woman." – Pope Francis Nov 25, 2020 PARIS (AP) — With domestic violence on the rise amid the coronavirus pandemic, activists are holding protests Wednesday from France to Turkey and world dignitaries are trying to find ways...

UCLA Settles Gyno Assault Lawsuit For $73 Million

"Seven counts of sexual penetration of a person unconscious of the nature of the act by fraudulent representation" Nov 17, 2020 | CNN – The University of California system has reached a $73 million settlement Monday with alleged victims of sexual abuse by a former obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. James Heaps. Heaps had worked part-time as a gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles's (UCLA) student health center from about 1983 to 2010, and was hired by UCLA...

Arab Nation ‘Regrets’ Airport Vagina Exams

"On October 2, Qatari authorities removed 13 women from an Australia-bound Qatar Airways flight and subjected them to forced gynecological examinations after a premature baby was found abandoned in a toilet at Doha’s Hamad International Airport according to an Australian news report." – Human Rights Watch, Oct 27, 2020 "Sharia law is the main source of Qatari legislation ... " – Wikipedia In region where women are considered the property of men, female airline passengers were subjected...

Jeffrey Epstein’s $22M Mansion Will Be Demolished

"The razing of the palatial home might come as welcome news to residents ... " GOOD RIDDANCE | Notorious serial sex offender's former estate to be bulldozed | The $22 million Palm Beach mansion owned by financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be demolished to make way for an even more expensive home, according to the developer who is buying it. The six-bedroom, 14,000-square-foot waterfront home with a staff house and pool house was previously owned...

Famed Sex Educator Dies

Nov. 3, 2020 The New York Times – Betty Dodson, a feminist sexologist and evangelist of self-pleasure who taught generations of women how to masturbate in workshops, books, and videos, seeing the do-it-yourself climax as a liberating social force, died on Saturday at a nursing home in New York City. She was 91. The cause was cirrhosis of the liver, said Carlin Ross, her business partner. Ms. Dodson was a second-wave feminist making erotic art when she...

Ghislaine Remains In Lock-Up As Evidence Deadline Looms

Nov 3, 2020 | NEW YORK (AP) – Prosecutors and defense lawyers are clashing days before a deadline for evidence to be turned over in the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein's one-time girlfriend on charges that she recruited girls for him to sexually abuse. The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell is not scheduled to start until July, but prosecutors must turn over evidence to her lawyers by Monday. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to charges alleging that she recruited...

Rape Charges Pile Up Against Porn King Ron Jeremy

Yahoo! News – Prosecutors said they have filed seven additional sexual assault counts against adult film actor Ron Jeremy, which together with previous charges carry a maximum sentence of more than 300 years in prison. The seven new counts, filed by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, involve six women and go back to 1996, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. They add to other charges previously filed against Jeremy, 67, whose real name...

13 Women Removed From Flight, Strip Searched

"Thirteen Australian women were taken to an ambulance on the tarmac and told to remove their underwear before being examined." UPDATE: Qatar Airways Faces Protest Over Examination of Australian Women October 27, 2020 Bloomberg – Qatar Airways faces an effective grounding of its planes in Sydney as workers consider striking over the treatment earlier this month of some female Australian passengers in Doha. The union representing Sydney airport workers is considering refusing to service, clean or refuel Qatar Airways...

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