Recent Appellate Court Decision Helps Survivors Hold Schools Accountable For Off-Campus Sexual Misconduct
Sexual misconduct is pervasive at educational institutions across the country. Under certain...
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Giving Survivors A Voice In Sex Abuse Case Against Military Doctor
The duty to protect and serve does not end at the administrative level of the U.S. military....
Is it Too Late to Bring a Claim of Childhood Sexual Abuse?
By now, everyone is aware of the allegations of wide-spread child sexual abuse perpetrated over the years by members of organizations like the Catholic Church and the Boys Scouts of America. For too many years, allegations of child sex abuse against these organizations and others were kept quiet. As more and more victims come forward to seek justice against their…
Four Linked to Porn Website Indicted on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges
OCT. 10, 2019 6:16 PMSAN DIEGO — The owner of a pornographic website, who headed to New Zealand during his ongoing civil trial on claims he tricked young women into making sex videos, was indicted with three others Thursday on federal sex trafficking charges.The indictment was unsealed after three of the defendants linked to the GirlsDoPorn.com website appeared in a…
The Media is Getting it Wrong: Jeffrey Epstein’s Victims and their Victims’ Rights Attorneys Deserve the Credit for Finally Bringing Him to Justice
The media has widely credited the Miami Herald’s “Perversion of Justice” series with “exposing” the unprecedented non-prosecution agreement (“NPA”) in which former U.S. Attorney (and current Trump Labor Secretary) Alexander Acosta agreed to allow billionaire Jeffrey Epstein to avoid federal prosecution for running an international child sex trafficking operation. But the true credit for exposing the shocking details surrounding the “sweetheart” deal belongs…
Secretary DeVos’ Proposal on Sexual Assault Draws Wave of Personal Attacks
Not long after she was sworn in, Secretary DeVos met with campus sexual survivors and advocates and promised any action she took on Title IX would respect their viewpoint. That was a lie. Secretary DeVos’ proposed regulations overwhelmingly reflect the view of institutions seeking to limit liability at survivors’ expense, in four key ways. First, the proposal limits schools’ responsibility…
Montgomery County Sues Opioid Industry Giants For Role In Nationwide ‘Epidemic’
Montgomery County filed suit against dozens of people and companies in the opioid industry Thursday, accusing them of contributing to a crisis that’s ravaged the county and country. The county is seeking $100 million, plus $350,000 in punitive damages from each of the more than three dozen named defendants and 100 anonymous defendants — plus a possible tripling of damages.…
Brett Kavanaugh Could Still Face Felony Charges in Maryland Courts
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford bravely came forward with allegations that Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, tried to rape her in 1982 in Montgomery County Maryland, when Kavanaugh was a 17-year-old student at Georgetown Prep in Bethesda, Maryland. While some have speculated that Kavanaugh could face charges for the 1982 incident, no one has yet analyzed the question under…
Why Maryland Lawmakers Should Accept the PA Grand Jury’s Recommendations on Priest Abuse
Yesterday, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Statewide Investigating Grand Jury released a comprehensive report detailing the Catholic Church’s systematic and widespread cover-up of more than 300 Catholic clergy’s sexual abuse of thousands of children. The report exposes a shameful cover-up by the late Baltimore Cardinal William H. Keeler, which The Baltimore Sun detailed in an article published last night. According to the report, Keeler reassigned a pedophile…