After actress Rose McGowan publicly accused him of grooming and raping her at the age of 15, two-time Academy Award-winning director Alexander Payne (&#8220;Sideways&#8221;) has issued a strong denial.
This past August, the actress and #MeToo activist accused Payne of showing her a soft-core porn at the age of 15, which he used as a grooming mechanism.
“Alexander Payne. You sat me down &amp; played a soft-core porn movie you directed for Showtime under a different name. I still remember your apartment in Silverlake. You are very well-endowed. You left me on a street corner afterwards. I was 15,” she tweeted.
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Alexander Payne. You sat me down &amp; played a soft-core porn movie you directed for Showtime under a different name. I still remember your apartment in Silverlake. You are very well-endowed. You left me on a street corner afterwards. I was 15. <a href="https://t.co/mVqiN4S9NW">pic.twitter.com/mVqiN4S9NW</a>
&mdash; Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1295265538512486402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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McGowan then followed up the allegation with a lengthy <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CEAS9S9hBr0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Instagram post</a> in which she said that she initially thought her “sexual experience” with Payne at age 15 was just a sexual experience.
“For years I had thought a man I had sexual relations with was a a sexual experience I had. I now know I was groomed. I auditioned for him at 15. After my experience with him, I quit acting entirely until I was ‘discovered’ at 21,” she alleged. “When that happened, I was like, f**k it, let’s do this. I even tweeted a congratulations on his Oscar win in 2012, that’s how deep in the Cult of Hollywood I was.”
“It wasn’t until three weeks after the Weinstein story broke that I re-evaluated the situation,” she continued. “I feel badly about throwing a bomb into someone’s life and career, but I guess that’s social conditioning. I’m more sad than angry. Sad for 15 year-old me. Sad for the adult me that still thought it was a choice I made. Grooming is real.”
In a guest op-ed for <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/09/alexander-payne-denies-rose-mcgowan-underage-allegation-guest-column-1234570984/">Deadline</a>, Payne said that he could not have done what Rose McGowan alleged because he was a full-time film student at UCLA at the time and never directed a soft-core porn for Showtime.
&#8220;Rose McGowan and I have always had very cordial interactions, and I have admired her commitment to activism and her voice in an important, historic movement,&#8221; he began. &#8220;However, what she has said about me in recent social media posts is simply untrue.&#8221;
&#8220;Rose is mistaken in saying we met when she was fifteen, in the late 1980s,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I was a full-time film student at UCLA from 1984 until 1990, and I know that our paths never crossed. She claims that I showed her a &#8216;soft-core porn movie&#8217; I had directed for Showtime &#8216;under a different name.&#8217; This would have been impossible, since I had never directed anything professionally, lurid or otherwise. I have also never worked for Showtime or directed under any name other than my own.&#8221;
Payne added that he first met Rose McGowan in 1991 when he was directing a comic short for a Playboy Channel series, after which they went on a couple of dates. She would have been 17 or 18 at the time.
&#8220;Although she did not get the part, she left a note for me at the casting desk asking that I call her,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I had no reason to question how old she was, since the role she read for required an actor who was of age. We later went out on a couple of dates and remained on friendly terms for years.&#8221;
&#8220;While I cannot allow false statements about events twenty-nine years ago to go uncorrected, I will continue to wish only the best for Rose,&#8221; he concluded.
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Prosecutors charged pornographic film star Ron Jeremy with 20 additional sex crimes on top of the eight he was already facing, bringing the number of alleged victims from four to 17.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office <a href="http://da.lacounty.gov/media/news/adult-film-star-facing-additional-sexual-assault-counts-involving-13-more-women">announced</a> the latest charges on Monday. Jeremy, 67, was charged with three counts each of forcible rape and forcible penetration by a foreign object, and one count each of forcible oral copulation and sexual battery in June. Jeremy pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The district attorney’s office described the slew of new charges facing Jeremy:
<blockquote>The complaint against Ron Jeremy Hyatt … includes six counts of sexual battery by restraint, five counts of forcible rape, three counts of forcible oral copulation, two count of forcible penetration by a foreign object and one count each of sodomy, assault with intent to commit rape, penetration by a foreign object on an unconscious or sleeping victim and lewd conduct with a 15-year-old girl.</blockquote>
The new charges allege crimes that took place over a 16-year span from 2004 to 2020. The alleged victims ranged in ages from 15 up to 54.
Allegations against Jeremy hit mainstream media in 2017 when more than a dozen women spoke to <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/inside-ron-jeremy-sexual-misconduct-allegations-121274/">Rolling Stone</a> and made a series of accusations against him, from inappropriate touching to rape. The porn star denied the accusations then as well.
“These allegations are pure lies or buyer’s remorse,” Jeremy said in a statement. “I have never and would never rape anyone. All serious allegations have been investigated by police and dismissed by judges, as have most of the accusations of ‘groping.’ I have never been charged nor spent one day in court for any of this.”
Allegations against Jeremy and other porn stars have circulated for years, though alleged victims do not often bring their accusations to police. The alleged victims, who often also work in the porn industry, have said that their line of work automatically makes others skeptical of their claims and discourages others from coming forward.
In February, the pornography site <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pornhub-under-fire-after-videos-of-rapes-sex-trafficking-victims-posted-to-site">Pornhub</a> came under fire after films showing sex trafficking and rapes, including of minors, appeared on the site.
As reported in The Daily Wire:
<blockquote>In an <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/time-to-shut-pornhub-down">explosive op-ed</a> in the Washington Examiner on Sunday, Laila Mickelwait noted “several shocking cases of sex trafficking and child rape films that were hosted on Pornhub” over the past few months, including one involving a 15-year-old girl who was missing for up to a year until her mother discovered 58 videos of her being hosted on the site. The girl’s trafficker was eventually spotted in a 7-Eleven surveillance video before police arrested him. Another case involved Michael Pratt, owner of GirlsDoPorn, who coerced 22 women into performing sex acts on camera; the acts were later posted to Pornhub.
“These women sued GirlsDoPorn and won a $12.7 million lawsuit against the company,” reported Mickelwait. “According to a federal indictment, Pratt and his co-conspirators produced child pornography and trafficked a minor. Pratt reportedly fled the United States for New Zealand and is currently wanted on a federal warrant.”</blockquote>
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The reporting on Jacob Blake has sometimes mentioned in passing that there was a warrant for Blake&#8217;s arrest stemming from a domestic violence incident. The actual crime that Blake is accused of committing isn&#8217;t often described in any detail, despite the fact that the alleged crime may be relevant to the shooting on Sunday. It potentially speaks to Blake&#8217;s state of mind, his character, and his propensity for violence, and it explains why the cops were called in the first place.
According to the criminal complaint, which can be <a href="https://archive.is/YcYRU">found here</a>, Blake&#8217;s ex-girlfriend says that he entered her house uninvited early in the morning on Sunday, May 3, 2020. She reports that she woke to find him in her room, standing over her. What happened next, by the woman&#8217;s account, is downright chilling:
<blockquote>LNB stated at about 6AM she was woken up by the father of her children, Jacob Blake, herein known as the defendant, standing over her saying, “I want my shit.” As LNB lay there, on her back, the defendant, suddenly and without warning, reached his hand between her legs, penetrated her vaginally with a finger, pull it out and sniffed it, and said, “Smells like you’ve been with other men.&#8221;</blockquote>
The complaint says that Blake, after allegedly committing this violent and degrading act against the victim, immediately left the room, took her key and her debit card, and drove away in her vehicle. She says he made two withdrawals with the stolen card. The complaint then provides some background insight into the relationship between the victim and Blake:
<blockquote>LNB stated she and the defendant have three children together but have never resided together in the eight years they have been on and off. LNB stated the defendant is unemployed, has no vehicle, and would not tell LNB where he was currently living. LNB stated over the past eight years the defendant has physically assaulted her around twice a year when he drinks heavily.</blockquote>
As a result of this complaint, Blake was <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://wcca.wicourts.gov/caseDetail.html?caseNo=2020CF000736&amp;countyNo=30&amp;index=0&amp;mode=details&amp;_ga=2.73454356.709057279.1598671016-1492491321.1598671016" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">charged on July 6</a> with felony third-degree sexual assault, misdemeanor trespassing and disorderly conduct connected to domestic abuse.
If these accusations are true, then Blake is a serial abuser and a violent man who tried to control women through violence and fear. Does the fact that he is possibly a dirtbag mean that police could randomly pull up and shoot him in the back? No, of course not. Which is why it is good that they did not randomly pull up and shoot him in the back.
They came because his ex-girlfriend called 911. She reported that Blake wasn&#8217;t supposed to be there and had taken her keys. Now we potentially understand the context of why he was not supposed to be there, and why she said she was afraid of him, and what he may have been planning to do with her keys. When officers attempted to arrest the fugitive, he <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/kenosha-cops-say-jacob-blake-was-holding-knife-contradicting-ag/">allegedly</a> fought back, though his lawyer disputes the claim. At some point he appears to have either grabbed a knife or potentially reached for one in the car.
It is possible that some additional detail will rise to the surface which implicates the officer in an unlawful shooting. But everything we have seen so far seems to paint a picture that puts the blame on the shoulders of Jacob Blake. And it also raises questions about why businesses like the NBA and the NFL have come out so firmly in support of a man who is accused of committing such horrible crimes against a woman. These organizations in particular have a long and sordid history of supporting, and covering for, abusive men. And it appears they may be doing it again.
More from Matt Walsh: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-police-scanner-audio-of-jacob-blake-shooting-released-calls-into-question-media-narrative">Police Scanner Audio Of Jacob Blake Shooting Released, Calls Into Question Media Narrative</a>
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Two parents in Russia asked a truck driver to take their two young daughters to a babysitter. The girls later claimed the truck driver touched them inappropriately, leading the parents to track down the driver, rape him with a metal pipe, and then beat him with it.
Valeria Dunaeva, 25, is the mother of the three-year-old who picked up the two girls. The two told her Chikvarkin “had touched them below the waist,” police said, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8673621/Innocent-trucker-raped-metal-pipe-vigilante-parents.html">according to the Daily Mail</a>. Dunaeva became enraged after the accusation and told 33-year-old Sergey Chabin, the father of the 10-year-old girl. The parents called three male friends to find Chikvarkin and attack him.
“They found the man who previously gave a lift to the children,” a police source told Znak, a Russian newspaper. “First, he was raped in the anus with a metal pipe. Then they smashed his head with the same pipe, breaking his skull.”
Chikvarkin’s friend – an aunt of Dunaeva’s ex-husband who had babysat the children – was injured in the attack as well while she tried to defend her friend. Chikvarkin was still alive after the attackers left but later died from his injuries. One of Chikvarkin’s friends told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that the truck driver “just wanted to help by giving the kids a lift, but he was killed,” according to the Mail. The friend added that Chikvarkin “would never harm children.”
The driver, 48-year-old Dmitry Chikvarkin, is believed to be innocent, the Daily Mail reported. Police said they believe the two girls, aged 10 and three, lied about Chikvarkin touching them as a “joke.” Police made the determination after interviewing both children, suggesting it was the older girl who made up the claim.
The parents, Dunaeva and Chabin, along with an alleged accomplice, have been arrested and charged with “murder with special cruelty by a group of persons by prior conspiracy,” according to reports. Police are still looking for the other men who participated in the murder.
The four men involved face potential life sentences, the Mail reported, while the woman only faces up to 20 years in prison, yet another example of how the criminal justice system treats women differently than men.
The case is also another example of the consequences faced by those falsely accused of sexual assault. Chikvarkin was murdered, but many falsely accused men end up committing suicide. One of the most prominent cases in the past few years involved Jay Cheshire, who hanged himself after he was falsely accused of rape. A year after Cheshire died, his mother committed suicide in the same way.
Then there are the men that spend decades in jail for rapes they never committed. The most recent example comes from New York, where Rafael Ruiz finally had the charges against him drop. Ruiz was released from prison earlier this year after spending 25 years in prison for a 1985 sexual assault conviction for which he was innocent. Ruiz is one of the hundreds of men who have been helped by the Innocent Project.
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A woman who admitted to falsely accusing two Sacred Heart University football players of rape was denied an early end to probation.
Superior Court Judge Tracy Lee Dayton denied former SHU student Nikki Yovino’s request to cut her probation in half, citing the fact that Yovino previously agreed to the plea bargain that spared her a much longer jail sentence during her 2018 trial. Yovino faced six years in prison after she admitted to falsely accusing the two football players. Thanks to a last-minute plea deal, however, Yovino spent less than a year in prison followed by three years of probation, which she is halfway through.
The Connecticut Post <a href="https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Woman-convicted-of-false-rape-claims-is-denied-15514302.php">reported</a> that Yovino wasn’t present in the court room for the hearing and that her attorney, Ryan O’Neill, told the judge his client wanted to go home to Long Island after living in Ridgefield with relatives.
“Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Tatiana Messina opposed any probation reduction for Yovino. She argued that Yovino has not presented any proof that she underwent a mental health evaluation and treatment as required by her probation,” the outlet reported.
Yovino accused the two football players of sexual assault in 2016 after attending a party at a house near SHU. She <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-lied-about-being-raped-now-men-she-accused-are-ashe-schow">claimed</a> two men pulled her into a bathroom in the basement and sexually assaulted her.
“I don’t want to be in here, I don’t want to do anything. My friends are waiting for me outside, let me go outside,” Yovino told police she said to the men.
Both football players admitted they had sex with Yovino, but said it was consensual. A witness testified that Yovino said she wanted to have sex with the athletes. Police detectives all noted “inconsistencies in [Yovino’s] original statement.”
Police also reported that Yovino told them the two football players held her down and took a turn sexually assaulting her. During her trial, however, Yovino suddenly claimed she never told police she was sexually assaulted. It was an astounding claim to make based on her admission to falsely accusing the two men of sexual assault and what her lawyer had previously argued in court.
“Our defense is that these two young men did things to her that were a sexual assault and were against her will,” O’Neill told Superior Court Judge William Holden during a pretrial hearing in March 2018, <a href="https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Yovino-says-she-never-told-police-she-was-12920359.php">according to the Post</a>. “She had a reasonable belief that she was speaking the truth about what she said occurred.”
On the witness stand, Assistant State’s Attorney Emily Trudeau asked Yovino, “You never told law enforcement you were sexually assaulted?” after the then-19-year-old made her claim.
“No, I never said I was sexually assaulted,” Yovino replied.
Trudeau asked her why the police were investigating a sexual assault then, and Yovino said she didn’t know. Yovino underwent a rape testing kit just before talking to police about the incident in 2016.
“I never told [the detective] I was sexually assaulted. I told him that something happened in the bathroom at the party with these two guys, that I didn’t want to happen,” Yovino testified.
Yovino reportedly made up the false allegation in order to avoid losing a male friend whom she saw as a &#8220;potential boyfriend.&#8221;
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-lied-about-being-raped-now-men-she-accused-are-ashe-schow">reported</a>, the two falsely accused men filed a lawsuit against Yovino and SHU.
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Actress and #MeToo activist Rose McGowan alleged on Monday that acclaimed director Alexander Payne (&#8220;Election,&#8221; &#8220;Sideways,&#8221; &#8220;The Descendants&#8221;) &#8220;groomed&#8221; and raped her at age 15.
First, McGowan alleged from her Twitter account on Monday that the two-time Academy Award winner showed her a softcore porn he had directed for Showtime in his Silverlake apartment before dropping her off on a street corner.
&#8220;Alexander Payne. You sat me down &amp; played a soft-core porn movie you directed for Showtime under a different name. I still remember your apartment in Silverlake. You are very well-endowed. You left me on a street corner afterwards. I was 15,&#8221; she tweeted.
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Alexander Payne. You sat me down &amp; played a soft-core porn movie you directed for Showtime under a different name. I still remember your apartment in Silverlake. You are very well-endowed. You left me on a street corner afterwards. I was 15. <a href="https://t.co/mVqiN4S9NW">pic.twitter.com/mVqiN4S9NW</a>
&mdash; Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1295265538512486402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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McGowan then followed up the allegation with a lengthy <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CEAS9S9hBr0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Instagram post</a> in which she said that she initially thought her &#8220;sexual experience&#8221; with Payne at age 15 was just a sexual experience.
&#8220;For years I had thought a man I had sexual relations with was a a sexual experience I had. I now know I was groomed. I auditioned for him at 15. After my experience with him, I quit acting entirely until I was ‘discovered’ at 21,&#8221; she alleged. &#8220;When that happened, I was like, f**k it, let’s do this. I even tweeted a congratulations on his Oscar win in 2012, that’s how deep in the Cult of Hollywood I was.&#8221;
&#8220;It wasn’t until three weeks after the Weinstein story broke that I re-evaluated the situation,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I feel badly about throwing a bomb into someone’s life and career, but I guess that’s social conditioning. I’m more sad than angry. Sad for 15 year-old me. Sad for the adult me that still thought it was a choice I made. Grooming is real.&#8221;
McGowan then advised people in similar situations to retrain their brain into understanding that what they experienced at such a young age was not a sexual encounter, but a crime.
&#8220;If you are out there trying to have sex with an underage minor, you are committing a crime, even if the minor doesn’t know it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I was attracted to him, so I thought it was on me, but that’s not correct. I was not an adult.&#8221;
McGowan concluded her post by warning people to spot groomers when they see them, likening them to &#8220;wolves.&#8221;
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Payne would have been 27 when McGowan was 15 in 1988. He has not responded to the accusation as of this writing.
McGowan was one of a handful of women who accused disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of rape when the #MeToo movement first kicked off in 2017. She most recently made headlines by calling for the arrest of Bill Clinton for his relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. She also chastised the DNC for inviting Bill Clinton to speak at the convention despite the allegations that he visited convicted  Epstein’s sex island in the Caribbean.
“I voted for @JohnKerry in 2004, @BarackObama in 2008 and 2012, and @HillaryClinton in 2016. And I am tired. Tired of watching @TheDemocrats sell out to corporations then use the fascist GOP as cover for their complicity. I didn’t leave the Democratic party. The party left me,” tweeted Ryan Knight.
McGowan responded, “Bill Clinton speaking at the DNC’s convention is the COMPLICITY MACHINE AT WORK. YOU DO NOT SUPPORT SURVIVORS. A lesser of two evils is still evil. The <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/ProudSocialist" data-focusable="true">@ProudSocialist </a>is correct. Burn it all down. By the people and for the people!”
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Rose McGowan Accuses ‘Sideways’ Director Alexander Payne Of Grooming And Raping Her At Age 15

Bill Clinton

Democratic National Convention

Actress and #MeToo activist Rose McGowan alleged on Monday that acclaimed director Alexander Payne (&quot;Election,&quot; &quot;Sideways,&quot; &quot;The Descendants&quot;) &quot;groomed&quot;

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As soon as the U.S. Department of Education revealed its final guidelines on how colleges and universities should adjudicate allegations of sexual assault, Democrats kicked into high gear to try and stop the rules from going into effect.
At issue is the fact that the new rules require schools to provide accused students some basic due process rights – like the specific allegations against them, the ability to cross-examine the evidence and witnesses against them, and access to the evidence against them prior to the hearing – which modern activists claim hurt victims. These same activists, including prominent Democrats such as presumptive 2020 nominee Joe Biden, claim we must “believe women” – except those who accuse Democrats.
When Education Secretary Betsy DeVos revealed the final rules in May, the attorneys general in numerous Blue States filed a lawsuit against the Department in an attempt to block the new rules from being implemented in the hopes that Biden wins the election and will stop the rules altogether. Should this happen, colleges and universities will continue to deny accused students constitutional due process rights, destroying futures and inviting hundreds more lawsuits.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blue-state-ags-want-to-limit-college-students-due-process-rights-red-state-ags-are-fighting-back">reported</a>, Red State attorneys general filed their own brief defending the new regulations. The new rule, the AGs wrote, “requires educational institutions to investigate and, where proved, punish allegations of sufficiently severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive sexual harassment. It also provides a needed framework, consistent with long-standing Supreme Court precedent, that protects the foundational constitutional rights of due process and speech.”
Last week, a federal judge in New York denied a move by state school boards who tried to block the new rules. U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl wrote that the new rules don’t harm accusers.
“Rather than harming students, the Rule has the potential to benefit both complainants and respondents by providing procedural guidance for grievance procedures,” Koeltl wrote. “This process helps not only respondents but also complainants who are given greater assurance that if they prevail in the grievance proceeding, that result will not be overturned because the process did not comply with due process.”
The new rules still face other lawsuits – including the one from Blue State AGs – attempting to block them in the hopes Biden will drop them outright when he takes office. Koeltl’s decision, however, may inform other judge’s deciding such cases.
On August 10, legal researcher Jake G. <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeHigherEdLaw/status/1292953299692527619">tweeted</a> that the Education Department requested a 15-day extension to file their response to the AG’s lawsuit. The extension would move the due date from August 14 to August 30, but would not affect the date the new rules would take effect, which would still be August 14. As Jake explained, “the only foreseeable scenario where the August 14th effective date would be pushed back is if the DC court handling the AG v [DeVos] case issued the requested Preliminary Injunction.”
The AGs argued that schools did not have time to implement and comply with the new rules due to the coronavirus pandemic, yet numerous colleges and universities, including some Ivy League schools, have announced they had updated their rules in time despite the outbreak.
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Scales Of Justice

Democrat Efforts To Delay Education Rules Requiring Due Process For Accused Students Are Failing

Betsy DeVos

Education

Lawsuit

Title IX

As soon as the U.S. Department of Education revealed its final guidelines on how colleges and universities should adjudicate allegations of sexual

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One aspect that is often overlooked in matters of campus sexual assault is the prevalence of white women accusing black men. As America battles with allegations of systemic racism, somehow these campus cases are ignored, even though the men involved receive almost no due process to defend themselves.
A recent example of this comes from Purdue University, which recently settled with a black football player who had been accused of sexual assault and denied an opportunity to defend himself. The student will be referred to as John.
John filed a lawsuit against Purdue in early 2019, two years after he was expelled from the university after an adjudication process that he says didn’t even follow the school’s outlined policies. Further, John argued racial and gender bias played a role in his expulsion.
The allegations stem from an encounter that began the evening of October 13, 2016. John and two of his football teammates were hanging out at an off-campus house watching television. John, in his lawsuit, said he considered the two other football players friends even though he didn’t know that much about them and had only known them for two months.
Three white women, who will be referred to as Jane, Rachel, and Diana, joined the three football players later that evening. The three women were friends with John’s teammates. John says he did not know any of the three women prior to that night.
As the six individuals began discussing their plans for the evening, John alleges the women said they were looking to drink alcohol that night. Jane and Rachel, John alleges in his lawsuit, “informed the gathering that they were interested in having sexual intercourse with one or more of the male individuals present.” The women specifically mentioned interest in a “threesome” or intercourse with multiple partners. John alleges that Jane and Rachel were “extremely forward with their comments regarding sexual intercourse,” openly declaring their interest.
The three women eventually left the house to attend a party elsewhere. The three football players stayed behind. Jane and Rachel would later say they drank wine and liqueur at the party. The two women sent text messages to John’s friends continuing to say they wanted to have sex with them, mentioning the word “threesome.” Jane “specifically requested permission to return to the off campus house to engage in sexual activity with multiple partners,” John says in his lawsuit.
The lawsuit states that a witness saw Jane “making sexual advances” on someone at the party before she and her friends returned to the house where John and his friends were watching television.
Shortly after the three women returned to the off-campus house, Diana left, leaving Jane and Rachel with the three football players. John’s lawsuit alleges that after Diana left, Jane sat on one of the football player’s laps and again stated her intent for a threesome. Jane, according to John’s lawsuit, made this statement in front of all five students who were present. Later, after the sexual assault allegations were made, all remaining witnesses stated that Jane made such a comment and Jane did not deny it, according to John’s lawsuit.
One of John’s friends and the two women then entered one of the bedrooms at the house while John and his other friend kept watching television. At some point, the football player who had entered the bedroom with the women returned and told John that Jane wanted to have sex with him. John entered the bedroom to find Jane and Rachel sitting on the bed. Jane, according to the lawsuit, “immediately” approached John and said, “come here,” before pulling down his shorts and underwear. She began performing oral sex on John, according to his lawsuit.
During this time, Rachel and one of John’s friends engaged in sexual activity. The two women, according to the lawsuit, made comments that they were enjoying themselves and that “this is the best thing we’ve ever done.”
After John ejaculated from the oral sex, he says, Jane took off her pants and underwear and told him to have sex with her. John wrote in his lawsuit that he “had become uneasy and did not wish to further engage in any sexual contact” with either of the women, so he left the room to clean himself and return to the main room to watch television. After he left, he alleges, the two women had sexual intercourse with his friend.
John’s other friend eventually entered the bedroom to engage in some kind of sexual activity with the women. John says he did not return to the bedroom.
At some point, everyone returned to the main room and talked about the events of that evening, with the women allegedly claiming it was a “sorority goal” and again saying it was “the best thing we have ever done.” At that time, John alleges, neither woman expressed any concern about the group sex.
The next day, however, on October 14, 2016, both women contacted the West Lafayette Police Department to claim they had been sexually assaulted. During her interview, according to John’s lawsuit, Jane told a detective that she was not intoxicated and was capable of giving consent. She also stated she consented to sex with men at the house but said she did not consent to all of the sexual contact. She did not elaborate on which sexual contact to which she did not consent. Rachel’s statement to the police was similar, according to the lawsuit.
Jane even stated to police that she had talked about having group sex and voluntarily engaged in it.
John was contacted later that day by the detective to give a statement. He explained what happened and the detective said the women gave similar statements. The detective allegedly told John he had “nothing to worry about.” The detective presented the information he had to the Tippecanoe County Prosecutor’s office, which declined to charge any of the men involved.
Four days later, however, on October 18, 2016, John received a letter from Purdue’s dean of students informing him he had been accused of sexually assaulting Jane. John was informed that he would be immediately suspended from Purdue. John denied the allegations against him and requested an appeal of his interim suspension. On October 26, John met with the dean of students to appeal his suspension, which was granted.
On November 4, John attended a meeting with two investigators for the school who, according to John’s lawsuit, “had no relevant experience in investigating allegations of this nature nor had they received adequate training on the due process rights of the accused.” At both meetings with Purdue officials, John was told he could bring a “support person” but that the person could not speak on his behalf.
The investigators told John they were still investigating and would issue a final investigative report within two weeks. Two weeks later, however, the investigation was granted an extension without explanation. At least two more extensions were granted without explanation. It wasn’t until February 8, 2017, that John was told a hearing would be held the following week. Again, John was told he could bring a “support person” but told that person was forbidden from acting as “legal counsel.” John was also told he could not present any evidence at the hearing.
On February 28, 2017, John was informed he was found responsible for sexual assault. He was told the dean of students found Jane “more credible,” but did not explain why. John alleges in his lawsuit that he was not allowed to present any evidence that would undermine Jane’s credibility. John was expelled but appealed. His appeal, however, could not contain new evidence and had to rely only on the evidence presented in the school’s investigative report, which was so heavily redacted “as to render the document nearly illegible,” John’s lawsuit says. John was also not allowed to review transcripts of interviews or anything else that informed the report.
John’s lawsuit says that he “submitted a written appeal on March 9, 2019 alleging that the evidence in the report did not support the committee’s findings, that his expulsion was grossly disproportionate to the allegations against him, and that the University had failed to follow its own policies and procedures, noting that the Final Determination letter was required to be issued 10 days after the committee hearing, but was in fact issued 13 days after the hearing.”
John’s appeal was denied, with Purdue officials claiming the numerous delays in the adjudication was not prejudicial. The denial also referenced evidence that John had never been able to see, like recording of police interviews.
John was expelled, removed from the football team, and lost his scholarship. John couldn’t even join another football team because Purdue refused to release him.
So, John sued, and on July 17, 2020, Purdue filed a notice of settlement to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. The details of the settlement are not public, but students in similar situations have received monetary payments that range from a few thousand dollars to nearly one million dollars. Most public settlements have resulted in the disciplinary charges being overturned and removed from the student’s record.
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Two White Women Allegedly Propositioned Three Black Football Players For Sex, Then Accused Them Of Sexual Assault. The School Just Settled With One Player.

One aspect that is often overlooked in matters of campus sexual assault is the prevalence of white women accusing black men. As America battles with

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Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime confidante to Jeffrey Epstein, thinks the billionaire was murdered in jail and fears suffering the same fate as she awaits trial on charges of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors, according to a new report.
“Everyone’s view including Ghislaine’s is Epstein was murdered. She received death threats before she was arrested,” an unnamed friend of Maxwell&#8217;s told <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/1161694/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-murdered-same-fate/">The Sun</a>.
&#8220;A family friend told The Sun On Sunday Maxwell, 58, fears she will be bumped off inside the brutal New York jail which warders describe as a &#8216;hellhole,'&#8221; the U.K. paper reported. The friend was described as “in regular contact with Maxwell at her secret New Hampshire hideaway&#8221; and said the death threats prompted the British socialite to hire security guards.
A federal judge on Tuesday denied Maxwell bail and ordered that she be held at the Brooklyn Detention Center, where she has been held since shortly after her July 2 arrest in New Hampshire.
The indictment from the Department of Justice &#8220;alleges that between at least in or about 1994 through 1997, Maxwell and co-conspirator Jeffrey Epstein exploited girls as young as 14, including by enticing them to travel and transporting them for the purpose of engaging in illegal sex acts.  As alleged, knowing that Epstein had a preference for young girls, Maxwell played a critical role in the grooming and abuse of minor victims that took place in locations including New York, Florida, and New Mexico.  In addition, as alleged, Maxwell made several false statements in sworn depositions in 2016.&#8221;
Epstein died in custody Aug. 10 and New York City’s chief medical examiner later ruled the death a suicide.
A “60 Minutes” report revealed that federal prison protocols were not followed in response to Epstein’s death because they took his dead body to the emergency room rather than leave him where he was.
“Bureau of Prisons protocol mandates a suicide scene should be treated with the ‘same level of protection as any crime scene in which a death has occurred,&#8217;” “60 Minutes” said. “60 Minutes reviewed hundreds of graphic photographs from the autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein and inside his cell. There are two nooses, a bit of orange sheet tied to the grate of a window. On the top bunk, bottles and medicines stand upright. Below it, another piece of fabric is tied through a hole on the bed about four feet from the ground.”
Sources told “60 Minutes” that “a second camera inside the tier, the one that could have seen Epstein’s cell door and the doors of other inmates, was not working that night.”
“60 Minutes” recovered a note from inside Epstein’s prison cell that stated: “[Name blurred out] kept me in a locked shower stall for 1 hour. [Another prison guard] sent me burnt food. Giant bugs crawling over my hands. No fun!!”
&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; host Sharyn Alfonsi asked an expert witness, Dr. Michael Baden, hired by Epstein&#8217;s family to challenge the medical examiner&#8217;s official findings: “Is there a photograph of when he was found dead in the cell?”
“No,” Baden responded. “There’s no photograph taken of Mr. Epstein in the cell.”
“Do you think there was foul play here?” Alfonsi asked.
“The forensic evidence released so far, including autopsy, point much more to murder and strangulation than the suicide and suicidal hanging,” Baden responded. “I hesitate to make a final opinion until all the evidence is in.”
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Ghislaine Maxwell Thinks Epstein Was Murdered In Jail, Fears Same Fate

Ghislaine Maxwell

Jeffrey Epstein

Sex Trafficking

Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime confidante to Jeffrey Epstein, thinks the billionaire was murdered in jail and fears suffering the same fate as she awaits

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A group of 18 Blue State attorneys general filed a lawsuit against U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos earlier this month to try and block new regulations that would provide much needed due process to college students accused of sexual assault.
The lawsuit is meant to delay the final rule’s implementation at least until after the November election, with filers hoping former Vice President Joe Biden will become president and cancel the rule all together.
As Inside Higher Ed <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/06/05/attorneys-general-sue-devos-education-department-over-title-ix-rule">reported</a> earlier this month, the lawsuit claims the new rules would “reverse decades of effort to end the corrosive effects of sexual harassment on equal access to education,” ignoring the fact that denying due process makes it easier for false accusations to limit access to education and does nothing to stop actual sexual harassment.
The AGs also took issue with the fact that the new regulations limit who can make an accusation (the new rules state the accuser must be a student of the school), are unfair. The whole point of Title IX wading into sexual harassment and assault was to claim accusers had their educational opportunities limited by a college that ignored their sexual assault claims. If the accuser isn’t even a student, their educational opportunities can’t be limited by a school they don’t attend.
The AGs that filed the lawsuit were all from Democrat states: California, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Last week, a coalition of Red State AGs filed a brief defending the new regulations.
The new rule, the AGs wrote, “requires educational institutions to investigate and, where proved, punish allegations of sufficiently severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive sexual harassment. It also provides a needed framework, consistent with long-standing Supreme Court precedent, that protects the foundational constitutional rights of due process and speech.”
The AGs take particular issue with the notion that because the adjudications can’t result in jail time (at least the schools can’t impose such a punishment, they can and do send information gathered to police in order to circumvent students’ constitutional due process rights), then due process isn’t necessary or can be severely limited.
“The need for procedural due process only increases in the context of sexual harassment and misconduct. Although not a criminal proceeding outright, the underlying act at issue in a harassment-related disciplinary hearing overlaps with illegal conduct. A finding of guilt attaches a special stigma to the accused party that will stay with them well after they exit campus,” the AGs wrote.
They also quoted a ruling against Brandeis University from an accused student. The judge in that case wrote, “If a college student is to be marked for life as a sexual predator, it is reasonable to require that he be provided a fair opportunity to defend himself and an impartial arbiter to make that decision.”
The AGs writing in support of the final rule are from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas.
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Blue State AGs Want To Limit College Students’ Due Process Rights. Red State AGs Are Fighting Back.

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An Australian accused her former partner of sexual assault. When his defense attorneys tried to bring up her prior history of making false accusations of sexual assault, a court <a href="https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/173091e5a18c0afe1ef34836#_Toc44662009">ruled</a> that such evidence was inadmissible, akin to bringing up her past sexual history, something prohibited in such cases.
The woman, who is not named in court documents, claimed that at the end of a 10-year relationship, her male partner, who is also not named, violently sexually assaulted her multiple times. The man, whom The Daily Wire will refer to as John Doe, claims that not only are the allegations against him false but that he has evidence that the woman, who will be referred to as Jane Roe, has made similar false claims in the past. The relationship ended in 2014, and the woman claimed the assaults happened in May and August of that year. The couple had been together since 2005 and had two children together, though they were split up for two years between 2008 and 2009.
The case ended up at the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal, which did not look at the substance of Jane’s complaint since they were only concerned with whether John could submit evidence showing she had previously lied about being sexually assaulted. Some of the evidence presented against the woman include statements she made to friends back in 2001 while in school. Her numerous allegations became more egregious over time.
The first allegation, according to a summary of evidence provided to the court by John, states that in 2001, Jane told a friend and a school “notifier” that she had been sexually assaulted. When the notifier asked for more information, Jane allegedly “giggled and walked away.” That same year, she told another friend that her ex-boyfriend would rape her and beat her. She apparently changed the name of this alleged ex-boyfriend from Clint to Tim. Jane told this same friend at another point that she had been “gang raped.” Yet again in 2001, Jane wrote notes to two other schoolgirls saying that she had been raped and beaten the night before. Her mother confirmed that Jane had been home all evening so the attack couldn’t have happened.
When the school notifier tried to get Jane to go to the police, she denied ever making the accusations. The notifier showed her one of the notes she had written, Jane allegedly said, “Oh, didn’t happen that way.” Jane then claimed the man who raped her was from a different school, but when the notifier checked, they found no person with the name Jane gave or anything similar.
Jane also made several allegations in 2002, according to John. In a letter to one of her school friends, Jane claimed men named Daniel and Leon had attacked and raped her. She then changed Leon’s name to something else. Her friend didn’t think the allegation was true since Jane’s story kept changing and didn’t make sense. Also in 2002, Jane told another person that someone named Craig or a similar name had “bashed her up and stuff,” possibly alluding to sexual violence. Later in 2002, Jane told police that her boss (the man she falsely referred to as “Leon” earlier in the year) had raped her multiple times. Police investigated and found multiple inconsistencies in Jane’s story, and her mother said Jane didn’t even work for the man at the time. Jane told police she had never made false accusations before.
During the investigation into her former boss, Jane told police that multiple boys had sex with her in primary school.
The final two entries on John’s list of evidence are the most brazen. In 2002, Jane fabricated a letter against her former boss and other men from a non-existent law firm. Police figured out quickly that it was fake, and Jane admitted that it was “all made up.”
Fast forward to 2009. Jane told police that a man named “Leon” forced open her security door to get inside her home around 1 a.m., chased her around the house, hit her, and raped her with an object. Jane eventually pleaded guilty to making up the false claim, admitting “Leon” was a client.
The court ruled that the evidence John submitted is inadmissible because it falls under the exclusionary rule in s 293 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986, which states that evidence “that discloses or implies (a) that the complainant has or may have had sexual experience or a lack of sexual experience, or (b) has or may have taken part or not taken part in any sexual activity, is inadmissible.” Instead of finding that John’s evidence was about prior bad acts of a similar nature, the court found a way to make it about Jane’s sexual history, or lack thereof. The judges ruled that if the law was incorrect it should be changed by the legislature.
Two Sydney defense attorneys, Sonia Hickey and Ugur Nedim <a href="https://www.mondaq.com/australia/crime/965148/history-of-false-sexual-assault-allegations-by-complainant-is-inadmissible">wrote</a> that “Attorney-General Mark Speakman has already asked his department to review the law.”
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She Made 12 Prior False Accusations Of Sexual Assault. An Australian Court Ruled They Can’t Be Used Against Her.

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A male student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is suing after the school expelled him for sexual misconduct even after evidence was presented that showed he was the victim.
The student, referred to as John Doe in court documents reviewed by The Daily Wire, says in his lawsuit that he informed ERAU that he was too intoxicated to engage in sexual activity and witness statements back him up, yet the school relied on antiquated gender stereotypes about male sexuality to say his claim wasn’t credible.
The lawsuit stems from an encounter between John and a student referred to only as Jane Roe that took place on October 26, 2019 following a Halloween party at John’s home. John and Jane, according to the lawsuit, had been exchanging text messages for weeks prior to the party and had gone on several dates, though John no longer has the messages.
John says he had about 15 alcoholic drinks the night of the incident, and witnesses stated he was “drunk” while others said Jane appeared fine.
The two students ended up in John’s room and began making out. John says Jane initiated the sexual activity by saying she wanted to kiss him. The two then engaged in oral sex and Jane allegedly told John she wanted intercourse. At some point during sexual intercourse, Jane allegedly joked that her “vagina was broken,” something she would later claim was her way of telling John she was uncomfortable.
Throughout all of this, John alleges Jane never received affirmative consent from John because he was too intoxicated to have given it, according to ERAU’s Sexual Misconduct Policy.
Jane spent the night at John’s house. In the morning, she overheard John and another student talking about a woman who engaged in sexual activity at the party. John says in his lawsuit that he believes Jane thought she was the one being discussed and didn’t want to be talked about this way.
A witness, JD, who said he was a “really close friend” of Jane and a friend of John’s, provided a sworn statement that was given to ERAU. In the statement, JD says both John and Jane were drunk at the party and that he saw Jane the next day. Jane at that time told JD, “I think I got raped,” though she admitted she never did anything to indicate she didn’t want to have sex that night. JD also said Jane kept saying she did give consent for the kissing and oral sex.
“And, then, I was, like, ‘Did you tell him to stop kissing you, or, you know, tell him, like, that&#8217;s not what you wanted?’ She was, like, ‘No, I didn&#8217;t. I was okay with that,’” JD said in his statement. He gave a similar explanation of his conversation with Jane about the oral sex.
“So, then, she was, like, ‘Well, after, you know, we were kissing he gave me head or whatever. You know, oral sex.’ And I was, like, ‘Okay. Well, did you tell him to stop then?’ And she was, like, ‘No, I didn&#8217;t tell him to stop then.’”
JD said Jane told him she consented to kissing and oral sex.
“So I was, like, ‘So you&#8217;re okay with, you know, making out and him giving you head? That – you was okay with that?’ She was, like, ‘Yes, I was fine with that,’” JD said in his statement.
Jane also indicated to JD that she never told John to stop or gave any indication she didn’t want to have sex with him.
“And, then, I was, like, ‘So at what point did you tell him to stop, because it sounds like to me you knew what were you doing and that, you know, that&#8217;s what you wanted?’ She was like, ‘Well, when he, you know, finally started, actually, having sex with me I told him my vagina was broken, but I laughed about it.’ And I was, like, ‘So why do you think he would stop behind you making a joke about that? You know, like &#8212; it wasn&#8217;t, like, you said, Stop. Seriously stop. You made a joke, you know, so how is he supposed to, you know, take you seriously and be, like, okay I need to stop doing this because she&#8217;s uncomfortable when you&#8217;re cracking jokes.’ And, then, she just was, like, ‘I don&#8217;t know,’” JD said.
JD is also the one who said Jane “was mad” after overhearing John talk about a woman having sex at the Halloween party and believed she was the woman being discussed. JD said in his statement he believed Jane exaggerated a story about sexual assault due to this anger.
“I feel, like, she&#8217;s doing all this because of what she heard that morning thinking that it had to do with her. I think that&#8217;s what it is. I think, ultimately, she was okay with them having sex and that the only reason she even went as far as she did, as far as calling it rape, was because she didn&#8217;t want to be a rumor that somebody had sex with [John Doe]. I think that&#8217;s what it really boils down to and it just spiraled into this snowball effect and now she has to run with it,” JD said.
After the encounter, John alleges, he and Jane exchanged text messages about their activity. John apologized “for the way [he] acted on the phone.” Jane sent him a message that said: “I want to meet and talk this out. Just you and I. I really just want to move past this. I hope u feel the same.”
Another witness, AC, said in a sworn statement (that was also provided to ERAU) that indicated Jane was “fine” during the party.
“… [S]he seemed completely coherent. She wasn&#8217;t slurring. She wasn&#8217;t leaning on anybody. She was &#8212; she seemed completely fine. And it didn&#8217;t even occur to me that she could have drank, because that&#8217;s just how well she handled it,” AC said in his statement. “[Jane Roe] just – she didn&#8217;t represent or seem as though she had any issues with any of the issues you were just describing. She was able to talk clearly and very coherently. She was able to answer my questions immediately. There was no delay. There was no second thoughts. There was no stuttering, slurring. There was no needing to lean on someone. Hanging on a wall, falling over. There was none of that.”
Another witness, RT, describe Jane as consenting to everything that happened.
A couple weeks later, on November 11, 2019, John was told a sexual assault complaint had been lodged against him. He was told on November 13 that Jane claimed she was too drunk to consent. When John said that, in fact, he was too drunk to consent, the Title IX Coordinator dismissed his claim, actually suggesting that John wouldn’t have been able to maintain an erection if he were truly intoxicated.
John was immediately suspended from his athletic team. Jane was not, despite John’s own credible allegation that he was too intoxicated to consent per school policy. John says in his lawsuit that he was told by the Title IX investigator not to file a complaint that he was the victim because ERAU would see it as retaliation against Jane.
In December, John and Jane met with the ERAU chaplain to reach an informal resolution, according to the lawsuit. The process was supposed to be confidential, but John alleges Jane falsely claimed to the Title IX Coordinator that John admitted to raping her. John says he did no such thing.
John was informed on January 8, 2020, that Jane wanted to launch a formal investigation against John. When John tried to point out inconsistencies in Jane’s claims while looking over the investigative report in February 2020, he was told he didn’t have to point them out because they were already marked down.
Yet another witness, MD, provided a statement to ERAU saying Jane’s actions in the weeks after the sexual encounter undermined her credibility, yet the school investigator didn’t include this information in the final report.
On March 24, John was found responsible for sexual misconduct. They deemed Jane “credible,” according to John’s lawsuit, “based on a subjective assessment of Jane Roe’s conduct after engaging in sexual activity with John Doe, including the observation that Jane Roe ‘was angry with [John Doe]…’” They found John had a “lack of credibility,” according to his lawsuit, “based on subjective factors including observations that John Doe ‘appeared more concerned about his own well-being that what [Jane Roe] was going through.’”
John was never allowed to question Jane.
John was informed he would be dismissed at the end of the semester. He appealed and was granted a request for reconsideration, but his lawsuit alleges the new investigator didn’t conduct an independent investigation and simply relied on previous information, including Jane’s medical records. John alleges in his lawsuit that the investigators didn’t actually see Jane’s medical records and relied only on her own summary.
John was again found responsible in a letter that read almost exactly as the original finding of responsibility. It again dismissed his claim of being too intoxicated based on information that would not have discounted such a claim if Jane had made it and relied on the same outdated, gendered assumption that a drunk man cannot maintain an erection.
John is now suing for breach of contract and Title IX violations, requesting economic and emotional damages in excess of $75,000.
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She Accused Him Of Sexual Assault Even Though HE Was Too Incapacitated To Consent. He Was Expelled Anyway.

A male student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is suing after the school expelled him for sexual misconduct even after evidence was

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A male Oberlin College student was expelled even though the school lacked evidence the female accuser was incapacitated for their sexual encounter and even though she told investigators and a hearing panel drastically different stories.
The male student, referred to as John Doe <a href="https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/20a0195p-06.pdf">in court documents</a>, just received a win from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which ruled Oberlin violated John’s rights by discriminating against him based on his sex. Writing for the majority, Judge Raymond Kethledge began the ruling with a fiery acknowledgement.
“Any number of federal constitutional and statutory provisions reflect the proposition that, in this country, we determine guilt or innocence individually—rather than collectively, based on one’s identification with some demographic group. That principle has not always been perfectly realized in our Nation’s history, but as judges it is one that we take an oath to enforce. Here, the relevant statute is Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which bars universities that receive federal funds from discriminating against students based on their sex,” he wrote.
Kethledge then laid out several ways in which Oberlin has demonstrated its bias against students accused of sexual misconduct – who are almost all male. For example, “Oberlin instructed its faculty, ‘via an online resource guide,’ that they should ‘[b]elieve’ students who report sexual assault, because ‘a very small minority of reported sexual assaults prove to be false reports,’” Kethledge wrote. Further, members of Oberlin’s Title IX office, which investigates and adjudicates claims of sexual misconduct, reportedly receive “annual training in strategies to protect parties who experience sexual misconduct[,]” but no training on “how to conduct impartial fact-finding proceedings,” John’s attorneys alleged.
The woman who was named Oberlin’s Title IX Coordinator, who oversees the department and has a say in sanctions against accused students, was hired in 2013 and said in 2014 that she was “committed to survivor-centered processes.” The Coordinator’s name is Meredith Raimondo, who was named as a defendant when Gibson’s Bakery <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/worse-you-think-theres-more-oberlin-story-ashe-schow">sued Oberlin for defamation</a> and won millions. Further, a report from Oberlin showed that 100% of allegations that resulted in a hearing panel ended with a responsible finding against the accused.
This all painted the backdrop for Jane Roe, as the accuser is referred to in court documents, to make her allegations against John. The two undergraduates met at a party in December 2015 and spent the night in John’s room after having consensual intercourse without a condom, court documents say. They had little interaction for the next two months, until John texted Jane at 1 in the morning on February 28, asking, “What are you up to tonight?” The two exchanged nine text messages in 30 minutes, court documents say. Jane said she was “about to smoke [marijuana]” in John’s residence hall and asked him if she could come by after. John said “yea.”
Jane arrived at John’s around 1:45 a.m. The two spoke briefly and began making out before taking off their clothes. Jane requested John use a condom when they had sex. During the encounter, Jane said she was thirsty, so John stopped to get her some water. They again had sex, this time without the condom, until Jane said she was “dry” because, “I’m not sober.”
John stopped having sex with her and asked if she would perform oral sex on him, to which she agreed. Afterward, the two talked a little and Jane left.
Nine days later, Jane told Raimondo that John had sexually assaulted her. Raimondo didn’t tell John about the charges until a week later, and even then only gave a vague description, writing in an email that Oberlin was investigating a claim that he had sexually assaulted Jane “on 2/27/16 while she was incapacitated due to alcohol and unable to consent to sexual activity.”
Raimondo appointed Joshua Nolan to investigate the allegations. Oberlin policy stated that investigations should take no more than 20 days and that the entire matter should be resolved in no more than 60 days. Nolan took 120 days to issue an investigative report, court documents say. After 61 days, John emailed Raimondo to ask about the delay, saying he couldn’t get in contact with Nolan. Raimondo said nothing except that Oberlin would notify him “of the reason(s) for the delay and the expected adjustment in time frames.”
It wasn’t until July 7, 2016 – more than four months after the sexual encounter – that John would even learn of the details of Jane’s allegations. Jane’s account of the encounter differed from John’s only slightly. She said John asked her oral sex before they had intercourse and she asked if he had a condom. She said nothing about being thirsty or John getting her water. She again said John “asked” her for oral sex and that she responded “okay, but I’m not very sober right now.” Jane wrote in a personal journal shortly after the incident that John “asked” her “to go down on him.”
Nolan interviewed 10 people, mostly Jane’s friends. Nearly all of them said Jane didn’t appear incapacitated, instead describing her as “intoxicated” but not “overly” so, her speech as “slower” than usual but “not slurred.” Another said she asked Jane if she was “good” when she saw her immediately before her encounter with John, to which Jane replied “yes.” The further from the incident, the more Jane claimed she was sexually assaulted. A friend she saw shortly after said Jane was “disappointed and upset that she had done something.” Another friend said Jane claimed she was “too intoxicated to consent.” A third friend, who spoke with Jane a few days after the encounter, said Jane said John had “sexually assaulted her” by “forc[ing] oral sex on her.”
When Nolan interviewed Jane, she was accompanied by her friend J.B., a male, whom she identified as her &#8220;designated support person.&#8221; J.B. would later say he was surprised by how different Jane&#8217;s account to Nolan was than what she had told him. J.B. said Nolan told him he would be brought back of his own interview, but Nolan never contacted him again. After J.B. heard that John had been found responsible, he emailed Raimondo saying that Jane told him John never forced her to perform oral sex on him and that her hearing testimony was misleading in other ways as well. Raimondo never responded and there is no evidence Oberlin considered anything J.B. said about the incident.
Despite what she wrote in her journal and what she told investigator Nolan about John asking her for oral sex, Jane claimed at the hearing that John forced her and never asked her. Nolan testified at the hearing, saying that the only contradiction he heard in testimony from what he was told during the investigation was from Jane about whether John asked for oral sex.
John was appointed an advisor who was supposed to support him, but this advisor “left the hearing early” and two weeks later retweeted: “To survivors everywhere, we believe you.”
John was unsurprisingly found responsible based on what the hearing panel claimed was a “preponderance of the evidence established that effective consent was not maintained for the entire sexual encounter that occurred on February 28, 2016.”
Judge Kethledge wrote:
<blockquote>Consent was absent, the panel found, because Roe was incapacitated, as the Policy defined it, from the moment she told Doe that she was “not sober.” The panel cited no other behavior supporting a finding either that Roe was incapacitated as defined by the Policy or that Doe would have had any reason to think she was. Nor did the panel mention the contradiction cited by Nolan, between what Roe told him (and several friends) and what she told the hearing panel, as to whether Doe had “asked” for oral sex. As a sanction, the panel recommended the most severe one: expulsion. The College accepted that recommendation and ordered Doe expelled.</blockquote>
Oberlin’s policy defined “incapacitated” as a person who “lack[s] conscious knowledge of the nature of the act” or “is physically helpless.” Jane’s casual remark about not being sober was enough for the hearing panel to determine she was “incapacitated,” despite what her friends said and the fact that not only did the school have to demonstrate that Jane was incapacitated as defined by Oberlin’s policy, but that John or a reasonable person would have been able to see that she was incapacitated.
John sued Oberlin, but a district court granted the school’s motion to dismiss. John appealed to the Sixth Circuit, which overturned the lower court’s decision.
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Her Story Changed And Even Her Friend Said She Lied About Being Sexually Assaulted. He Was Expelled Anyway.

A male Oberlin College student was expelled even though the school lacked evidence the female accuser was incapacitated for their sexual encounter and

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Last week, pop-star Justin Bieber was accused of sexually assaulting two women in separate incidents. The singer immediately disputed the claims with photos, articles, and receipts proving he could not have been where the women claimed he was when he allegedly assaulted them. Bieber has now filed a $20 million defamation suit against the women.
Bieber and his attorneys quickly filed the defamation lawsuit after the allegations from two women, known only as Danielle and Kadi, were made on social media, People <a href="https://people.com/music/justin-bieber-files-defamation-lawsuit-against-sexual-assault-accusers/">reported</a>. Bieber’s attorneys have called the accusations against the pop star “factually impossible, and disproven both by indisputable documentary evidence and the individuals’ own admissions.”
&#8220;Danielle claimed she was sexually assaulted at the Four Seasons Hotel on March 9, 2014, however, Bieber did not stay at that hotel in March 2014 and there are multiple witnesses and documentary evidence to dispute Danielle&#8217;s malicious lie,&#8221; said the complaint, obtained by People. It went on to call Kadi’s allegations &#8220;likewise factually impossible, are contradicted by her own prior written statements, are supported only by falsified or faked texts.&#8221;
&#8220;Danielle fabricated her sexual encounter with Bieber at the Four Seasons Hotel because it was publicly reported that Bieber had dinner at the Four Seasons Restaurant on March 10, 2014 and presumed that Bieber was at the hotel because of the public reports of him dining at the restaurant,&#8221; the lawsuit continued. &#8220;However, even though Bieber went to the restaurant, he did NOT stay at the Four Seasons Hotel.&#8221;
As The Daily Wire’s James Barrett previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/factually-impossible-justin-bieber-refutes-assault-claim-posts-evidence-he-says-proves-its-false">reported</a>, Bieber defended himself against Danielle’s claims in a lengthy series of tweets.
“As her story told I did surprise a crowd in Austin at Sxsw where I appeared on stage with my then assistant side stage and sang a few songs. What this person did not know was that I attended that show with my then [girlfriend] Selena Gomez,” he wrote before linking to a US Magazine article about Gomez attending the event with him.
“These photos clearly show me on stage with my assistant sidestage and the other with both of us in the streets of Austin afterwards on March 9 2014,” Bieber continued, linking to another article. “Here is article that shows we didn’t arrive in Austin that night from Selena’s show in Houston until late in the night.”
“The other reason this story might say I was staying at the Four Seasons was because a tweet from 2014 on March 10th, not the the 9th, says they saw me there,” he added along with the screenshot of the tweet. “However I never stayed at the Four Seasons on the 9th or the 10th. This person put another tweet up earlier saying they saw me at the restaurant the following night not the hotel.”
“Furthermore I stayed with Selena and our friends at an airbnb on the 9th and on the 10th stayed at a Westin because our hotel reservation at LÀ Quinta and not the four seasons was messed up. Here are the receipts for the hotel on the 10th,” he said, including photos of the tweets.
Bieber also included pictures of receipts for the AirBnB where he, Gomez, and their friends stayed in Austin, as well as photos of them at the rental property. He then added photos of receipts showing he stayed at the Westin on March 10th.
As to Kadi’s claim, Bieber’s lawsuit noted that he could not have been at the Langham hotel at 2:30 a.m. on May 5, 2015 because he was at the after party for the Met Gala, where witnesses placed him.
Bieber accused Kadi of being “desperate to meet him and desperate his attention and for fame.&#8221;
&#8220;Kadi has admitted on her Twitter page that she wants to be famous, to be a star on a Netflix series by using Twitter, stating in a pinned tweet, &#8216;I wanna star in a netflix series! twitter do ur thing&#8217; &#8221; in 2018, the lawsuit said.
Bieber’s lawsuit also cited several tweets from Kadi making clear she had never met Bieber but desperately wanted to, including one tweet saying she would “pay you to rape me.”
Kadi’s Twitter account is still up, but Danielle removed hers.
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Justin Bieber Files $20 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against Women Who Accused Him Of Sexual Assault

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Actor Ansel Elgort (&#8220;Baby Driver,&#8221; &#8220;The Goldfinch&#8221;) denies sexually assaulting a 17-year-old in 2014 when he was 20.
On Friday, a Twitter user named Gabby <a href="https://twitter.com/ltsgabby/status/1273974928853827584" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">accused Elgort</a> of sexually assaulting her in 2014 after she messaged him online.
&#8220;I had DMed him on when it was two days before my 17th birthday and I got his private Snapchat. I didn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d ever see my DM. I was just a kid and was a fan of him,&#8221; Gabby said in her post, as <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1162931/ansel-elgort-breaks-his-silence-after-being-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-17-year-old-girl">reported</a> by E! Entertainment News.
Gabby claims that when she and Elgort were having sex, she started crying &#8220;in pain&#8221; and that Elgort simply replied, &#8220;we need to break you in.&#8221;
&#8220;So when it happened, instead of asking me if I wanted to stop having sex knowing it was my first time and I was sobbing in pain and I didn&#8217;t want to do it, the only words that came out of his mouth were ‘we need to break you in,'&#8221; she said. &#8220;I WASN&#8217;T there in that moment mentally. I disassociated myself and just felt like my mind was gone. I was in shock. I couldn&#8217;t leave. I was only 5&#8217;2 and 98 pounds. He made me think this is how sex was supposed to be. I WAS SO YOUNG AND HE KNEW THAT.&#8221;
Gabby also alleged that Ansel wanted to have a threesome with her and her dance friend.
&#8220;They were as well underage and I didn&#8217;t tell anyone because he said it could ‘ruin his career.&#8217; I sat there for months wondering what I did wrong. Wondering why I felt so used,&#8221; Gabby alleged. &#8220;Years later, I have PTSD, I have panic attacks, I go to therapy. Finally, I&#8217;m ready to talk about it and finally heal.&#8221;
After a day of silence, Ansel Elgort released a statement claiming that he and Gabby had a legal and consensual relationship and denying that he ever assaulted her, though he did admit that he coldly tossed her aside after the encounter.
&#8220;I was distressed to see the social media posts about me that have been circulating in the past 24 hours,&#8221; Elgort wrote on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CBrc56ABpWn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a>. &#8220;I cannot claim to understand Gabby&#8217;s feelings but her depiction of events is simply not what happened. I have never and would never assault anyone. What is true is that in New York in 2014, when I was 20, Gabby and I had a brief, legal, and entirely consensual relationship. Unfortunately, I did not handle the breakup well.&#8221;
The age of consent in the state of New York is 17.
Ansel went on to say that he &#8220;stopped responding to her, which is an immature and cruel thing to do to someone.&#8221;
&#8220;This belated apology does not absolve me of my unacceptable behavior when I disappeared,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;As I look back at my attitude, I am disgusted and deeply ashamed of the way I acted. I am truly sorry. I know I must continue to reflect, learn, and work to grow in empathy.&#8221;
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‘Baby Driver’ Actor Ansel Elgort Denies Sexually Assaulting A 17-Year-Old Girl In 2014

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Actor Ansel Elgort (&quot;Baby Driver,&quot; &quot;The Goldfinch&quot;) denies sexually assaulting a 17-year-old in 2014 when he was 20. On Friday, a Twitter user named Gabby

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A police officer sued one of her coworkers alleging he sexually assaulted her by smacking her on the butt with an open hand back in 2016. The accused officer was suspended for five days and quit while being investigated.
Last week, the female officer’s lawsuit was dismissed and the city ordered her to pay the accused officer’s legal fees, CBS Chicago <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/06/11/city-of-hammond-sends-officer-bill-for-legal-fees-after-she-loses-sexual-assault-suit-against-another-officer/">reported</a>.
The accuser, Denise Szany, claimed a fellow officer “assaulted her by grabbing her by her vest, then her belt and then by physically harming her,” according to <a href="https://casetext.com/case/szany-v-city-of-hammond-3">court documents</a>. Szany also claimed that during this same altercation is when the fellow officer, who has not been charged with a crime, smacked her on the butt.
Szany originally filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which granted her the right to sue. She filed her lawsuit in February 2017.
Szany alleged in her lawsuit that about a year after she filed it she was retaliated against by the City of Hammond, Illinois. She claimed the city knew about her lawsuit and assigned her to use the same police car as the man she accused, claiming this action put her &#8220;in a dangerous situation as well as contributed to the then ongoing pervasive hostile work environment.&#8221;
As District Court Judge Philip Simon noted, the Hammond Police Department has 200 officers and just fourteen marked cars, so officers on different shifts use the same cars. Szany, however, argued that “she was terrified” to use the same car as the officer she accused because she thought he would harass or assault her again.
“But there is no allegation that as a result of the car assignments that [the accused] and Szany were ever assigned to use the car at the same time, that they interacted with one another as a result, or that [the accused] actually did anything untoward or inappropriate to Szany during this time. After three months of this assignment system, Szany&#8217;s counsel wrote a letter and from then on Szany was no longer assigned to the same car as [the accused],” Simon wrote in September 2019.
“Here, Szany alleges only speculation that she was going to be harmed or harassed because of the car assignment system. But that is not a material adverse employment action. Notice pleading doesn&#8217;t require much, but it certainly requires more than the subjective fear of unrealized harm that Szany has offered,” Simon added.
At that time, Simon dismissed Count VII of Szany’s lawsuit, with prejudice, meaning she cannot appeal the dismissal.
Szany’s attorney now argues that since she is being ordered to pay legal fees after losing her lawsuit, she is being retaliated against yet again. Her attorney said she would appeal the decision, CBS Chicago reported.
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A police officer sued one of her coworkers alleging he sexually assaulted her by smacking her on the butt with an open hand back in 2016. The accused

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Over the weekend, far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) sent shockwaves across the political landscape when she said that she believed Joe Biden accuser Tara Reade. After significant backlash on social media, Omar clarified that she will still be voting for Joe Biden come November.
&#8220;Ms. Omar I am not an admirer,&#8221; a user tweeted at Omar. &#8220;We don’t think -we know- that MAGA and Russia are working to defeat a mod dem. I found the comments irresponsible. You should’ve said: &#8216;I don’t know If Tara Reade is telling the truth and of course, as a surrogate of Bernie’s, I didn’t want Biden.'&#8221;
Omar said in response, &#8220;Believing survivors is consistent with my values. Yes, I endorsed against Biden and I didn’t pick him as our nominee. With that said, in this interview I did on May 6th, we talked about that and quotes aren’t always in context. I will vote for him and help him defeat Trump.”
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Believing survivors is consistent with my values. Yes, I endorsed against Biden and I didn’t pick him as our nominee. With that said, in this interview I did on May 6th, we talked about that and quotes aren’t always in context. I will vote for him and help him defeat Trump.
&mdash; Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1264929582253330432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Speaking with the U.K.’s <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/the-sunday-times-magazine/ilhan-omar-interview-the-us-politician-on-her-new-book-and-refugee-past-sls8vlcrz">Sunday Times</a>, Omar said that justice should not be “denied” regarding Reade’s allegation against Biden. She also allegedly told the interviewer that Biden would not be the nominee if she had the final decision.
“I do believe Reade,” said Omar. “Justice can be delayed, but should never be denied.”
While the mainstream media and other prominent Democrats have tirelessly tried to dismiss Reade as a liar – a treatment far different that Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford – other Democrats have flatly stated that they will vote for Joe Biden even though they believe Reade. Author Linda Hirshman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-op-ed-electing-biden-is-worth-dismissing-accuser-weakening-the-voices-of-victims-suck-it-up">gave this argument legs </a>in a recent op-ed for The New York Times:
<blockquote>All major Democratic Party figures have indicated they’re not budging on the presumptive nominee, and the transaction costs of replacing him would be suicidal. Barring some miracle, it’s going to be Mr. Biden.
So what is the greatest good or the greatest harm? Mr. Biden, and the Democrats he may carry with him into government, are likely to do more good for women and the nation than his competition, the worst president in the history of the Republic. Compared with the good Mr. Biden can do, the cost of dismissing Tara Reade — and, worse, weakening the voices of future survivors — is worth it.</blockquote>
Earlier this month, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a member of the radical “Squad” along with Omar, said that Reade’s allegation against Biden<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-tara-reades-claim-against-joe-biden-is-not-clear-cut"> is not “clear cut”</a> while conceding that “something has happened” between the two.
“There have been investigative journalists that have corroborated certain aspects of her account – that is undeniable – [and] have raised questions about other aspects of her account,” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851715944/rep-ocasio-cortez-says-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-not-clear-cut">told NPR</a>. “It certainly seems as though something has happened. I’m not sure… Frankly, this is a messy moment, and I think we need to acknowledge that – that it is not clear-cut.”
In March, Reade claimed that then-Senator Joe Biden sexually assaulted her while she served as an aide in his Senate offices during the Clinton administration. She has since detailed her account in multiple interviews and filed a criminal complaint against the former vice president with the Washington, D.C., police department. A former neighbor of Reade and Reade’s brother have both publicly stated that Reade told them of the alleged assault in the 1990s. Recently surfaced evidence also suggests that Reade’s mother called in to CNN’s Larry King in the 1990s to complain about a prominent senator with whom her daughter had “problems.”
Earlier this month, The Associated Press <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-new-sources-claim-tara-reade-told-them-about-aspects-of-joe-biden-allegation">reported</a> that two other people, both of whom wished to remain anonymous, said that Reade spoke of Biden’s behavior prior to going public. Following that, new evidence emerged that appeared to support Reade’s claim when the San Louis Obispo Tribune <a href="https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/article242527331.html">reported</a> on court documents from 1996 that revealed she had complained to her then-husband about sexual harassment from someone in Biden’s office in 1993.
“The declaration — exclusively obtained by The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California — does not say Biden committed the harassment nor does it mention Reade’s more recent allegations of sexual assault,” reported the outlet. “Reade’s then-husband Theodore Dronen wrote the court declaration. Dronen at the time was contesting a restraining order Reade filed against him days after he filed for divorce, Superior Court records show.”
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After Saying She Believes Tara Reade, Ilhan Omar Clarifies: I’m Still Voting For Biden

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Over the weekend, far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) sent shockwaves across the political landscape when she said that she believed Joe Biden accuser Tara

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As most Democratic leaders and members of the mainstream media continue to treat Joe Biden accuser Tara Reade far differently than they did Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford, far-left Congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has declared that she believes Reade.
Speaking with the U.K.&#8217;s <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/the-sunday-times-magazine/ilhan-omar-interview-the-us-politician-on-her-new-book-and-refugee-past-sls8vlcrz">Sunday Times</a>, Omar said that justice should not be &#8220;denied&#8221; regarding Reade&#8217;s allegation against Biden.
“I do believe Reade,” said Omar. “Justice can be delayed, but should never be denied.”
Omar also said that Biden would not be the nominee if she were the one making the final decision.
Earlier this month, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a member of the radical &#8220;Squad&#8221; along with Omar, said that Tara Reade’s allegation against Biden<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-tara-reades-claim-against-joe-biden-is-not-clear-cut"> is not “clear cut”</a> while conceding that &#8220;something has happened&#8221; between the two.
“There have been investigative journalists that have corroborated certain aspects of her account – that is undeniable – [and] have raised questions about other aspects of her account,” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851715944/rep-ocasio-cortez-says-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-not-clear-cut">told NPR</a>. “It certainly seems as though something has happened. I’m not sure… Frankly, this is a messy moment, and I think we need to acknowledge that – that it is not clear-cut.”
Ocasio-Cortez added that she does not believe Tara Reade to be a political actor.
“While a lot of folks, again, are trying to jump to the political implications, she has never explicitly said ‘don’t support Joe Biden,’” Ocasio-Cortez said. “She hasn’t explicitly said anything in terms of a political remedy that she wants. If anything, it simply sounds like she wants to be heard.”
However, other prominent Democrats, including the women on Biden&#8217;s shortlist to become his running mate, have either dismissed Reade&#8217;s claims or defended Joe Biden outright. Some progressives, such as author Linda Hirshman, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-op-ed-electing-biden-is-worth-dismissing-accuser-weakening-the-voices-of-victims-suck-it-up">have argued </a>people should vote for Joe Biden despite the credibility of Reade&#8217;s claims:
<blockquote>All major Democratic Party figures have indicated they’re not budging on the presumptive nominee, and the transaction costs of replacing him would be suicidal. Barring some miracle, it’s going to be Mr. Biden.
So what is the greatest good or the greatest harm? Mr. Biden, and the Democrats he may carry with him into government, are likely to do more good for women and the nation than his competition, the worst president in the history of the Republic. Compared with the good Mr. Biden can do, the cost of dismissing Tara Reade — and, worse, weakening the voices of future survivors — is worth it.</blockquote>
In March, Reade claimed that then-Senator Joe Biden sexually assaulted her while she served as an aide in his Senate offices during the Clinton administration. She has since detailed her account in multiple interviews and filed a criminal complaint against the former vice president with the Washington, D.C., police department. A former neighbor of Reade and Reade’s brother have both publicly stated that Reade told them of the alleged assault in the 1990s. Recently surfaced evidence also suggests that Reade’s mother called in to CNN’s Larry King in the 1990s to complain about a prominent senator with whom her daughter had “problems.”
Earlier this month, The Associated Press <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-new-sources-claim-tara-reade-told-them-about-aspects-of-joe-biden-allegation">reported</a> that two other people, both of whom wished to remain anonymous, said that Reade spoke of Biden’s behavior prior to going public. Follow that, new evidence emerged that appeared to support Reade’s claim when the San Louis Obispo Tribune <a href="https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/article242527331.html">reported</a> on court documents from 1996 that revealed she had complained to her then-husband about sexual harassment from someone in Biden&#8217;s office in 1993.
“The declaration — exclusively obtained by The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California — does not say Biden committed the harassment nor does it mention Reade’s more recent allegations of sexual assault,” reported the outlet. “Reade’s then-husband Theodore Dronen wrote the court declaration. Dronen at the time was contesting a restraining order Reade filed against him days after he filed for divorce, Superior Court records show.”
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Ilhan Omar Believes Biden Accuser Tara Reade: ‘Justice Can Be Delayed, But Should Never Be Denied’

As most Democratic leaders and members of the mainstream media continue to treat Joe Biden accuser Tara Reade far differently than they did Kavanaugh

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has continued her reign as one of the most hypocritical alleged feminists in all of politics.
During a recent interview with radio host Evan Dawson, Gillibrand was asked about the differences between the allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and those against de facto Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Gillibrand offered an answer full of misrepresentations about the allegations against Kavanaugh.
“There were multiple allegations against Brett Kavanaugh in various circumstances. Not only Dr. Blasey Ford’s allegations but several from his college days. Um, there was a similarity in the multiple allegations against him,” she told Dawson, who hosts a program called “Connections.” “Um, and he had a terrible record on supporting women and I opposed him based on his actual record and I did not believe his statements and so I think they’re very different. Also, Brett Kavanaugh was a Supreme Court Justice nominee for a lifetime appointment and my responsibility was to vote up or down and I voted against him on the merits of him not being qualified for that job.”
That’s a lot to unpack. There were multiple allegations against Kavanaugh, but they were all dubious. Some were flat out false. Ford couldn’t even remember the year the alleged sexual assault happened. She said she was in high school at the time, so it should have been easy to narrow down the year, yet she never could, alternating between the mid 80s to the early 80s. The people she named as being witnesses either couldn’t recall the event or denied it ever happened. Her own best friend said she couldn’t remember ever meeting Kavanaugh. Ford and her legal team then set the media on the old friend, accusing her of mental problems.
And there were not “several” allegations from Kavanaugh’s college days. There was one, which was also dubious. The woman didn’t even come to believe Kavanaugh was the one who exposed his penis to her at a dorm-room party until after she talked to Democrat lawyers. Another allegation from Kavanaugh’s college days came not from someone claiming to be a victim, but someone who claimed to have seen someone else push Kavanaugh’s penis toward a woman. That woman said she didn’t recall any such event.
There was also no similarity in the allegations. Gillibrand is an attorney, she should know what it takes for allegations to be considered similar. One allegation alleged Kavanaugh pushed a woman on a bed and groped her. Another said he dropped his pants and exposed his penis to a woman. Another said his penis was put into another woman’s hand by a third party. One of the false accusations said he organized teenage gang-rape parties. Another false accusation said he raped someone in a van.
Gillibrand’s claim about Kavanaugh not supporting women is purely political. He doesn’t support women the way she thinks he should, but her statement also makes it seem like it’s okay to sexually assault women so long as you adequately “support” them in their career. This applies to her endorsement of Biden. He may have been accused, but he’s passed policies that Gillibrand likes, so he can’t possibly be guilty. Never mind the fact there’s actual evidence that Biden met his accuser while there is exactly zero evidence Kavanaugh ever met Ford.
Gillibrand then claimed she actually voted against Kavanaugh because she didn’t think he was qualified for the job, but here’s what she said during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing:
“Do we value women in this country? Do we listen to women when they tell us about sexual trauma? Do we listen to their stories about how their lives have been forever scarred? Do we take their claims seriously? Or do we just disbelieve them as a matter of course?”
Of course, Gillibrand only meant those words as they applied to Kavanaugh, as Lara Trump – wife of President Donald Trump’s son Eric – <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/5-top-dem-women-slammed-kavanaugh-back-biden-lara-trump.amp?__twitter_impression=true">noted</a>, the New York senator now thinks differently.
“She has come forward, she has spoken, and they have done an investigation in several outlets. Those investigations, Vice President Biden has called for himself,” Gillibrand said. “Vice President Biden has vehemently denied these allegations and I support Vice President Biden.”
Gillibrand was next asked about policies from the Department of Education that would provide college students with basic due process protections in cases of alleged sexual misconduct.
Naturally, Gillibrand trashed the policies, instantly going back to favoring allegations over evidence.
“Well, I think Betsy DeVos has been a disastrous Secretary of Education and she has intended since the minute she had that position to roll back protections for students on campus and to roll back Title IX protections. She has undermined the ability for anyone to get fair justice or a fair review on any college campus and I think it’s a big mistake. Um, so I look forward to when Betsy DeVos is no longer our Ed. Secretary,” Gillibrand said.
More to unpack.
First, DeVos didn’t enter the position wanting to “roll back protections.” She learned of the due process problems after she was confirmed and was so moved by the issue that she decided to act. She listened to accusers and accused students and determined the current policies on campus are inadequate. Gillibrand and her ilk claim that these policies “roll back protections” but they don’t. They add constitutional protections for accused students that were missing in the ”believe women” movement adopted by college campuses. Giving accused students the ability to see the evidence against them and cross-examine their accuser and witnesses – basic tenants of the American justice system – does not “roll back protections” for accusers.
It is Gillibrand who “undermined the ability for anyone to get fair justice or a fair review” in these cases. She nurtured a culture where women were told to believe that non-criminal activity amounted to sexual assault and to see themselves as victims. She made sure colleges ignored due process and evidence of innocence out of fear they would receive an onslaught of negative publicity if they didn’t throw out an accused student. Look at the case of “Mattress Girl” Emma Sulkowitz, who had no evidence to support her claims of rape and actually had evidence to the contrary – that the sex was consensual – yet became a national heroine to the media for claiming her “rapist” wasn’t removed from campus.
Accused students couldn’t get “fair justice or a fair review” when colleges actively dismissed exculpatory evidence and allowed accusers to avoid having to produce evidence of their claims. In the end, findings of responsibility ended up not being believed – something that harmed accusers as well.
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Kirsten Gillibrand Asked About Biden Allegations, Trashes Education Department And Due Process

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has continued her reign as one of the most hypocritical alleged feminists in all of politics. During a recent interview

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In a lawsuit filed anonymously to the Superior Court of the State of California for Los Angeles County on Wednesday, an NFL player alleges that he was sexually assaulted and harassed multiple times during a cross-country flight, but that United Airlines failed to take appropriate action or cooperate with authorities. Along with sexual assault and sexual battery, the player is seeking damages for &#8220;intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, negligence and negligent hiring, training, supervision and retention&#8221; by the company.
The lawsuit was first <a href="https://twitter.com/MasterTes/status/1263116284692238337">reported</a> by Bleacher Report&#8217;s &#8220;Untold Stories,&#8221; the host of which posted a copy of the anonymous suit on social media.
&#8220;Breaking: A NFL player is suing [United Airlines], alleging that he was sexually assaulted [and] harassed multiple times by a woman on a recent flight,&#8221; &#8220;Untold Stories&#8221; host Master Tesfatsion tweeted Wednesday along with a copy of the complaint. &#8220;The lawsuit states United Airlines failed to properly respond during the flight, and failed to cooperate with authorities.&#8221;
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Breaking: A NFL player is suing <a href="https://twitter.com/united?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@United</a> Airlines, alleging that he was sexually assaulted &amp; harassed multiple times by a woman on a recent flight. The lawsuit states United Airlines failed to properly respond during the flight, and failed to cooperate with authorities. <a href="https://t.co/oS4DJZlc7V">pic.twitter.com/oS4DJZlc7V</a>
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In a series of post, Tesfatsion provided the following summary of the claims of the lawsuit: 
<blockquote>The allegation occurred on Feb. 10 during a redeye from LA to Newark. The NFL player claims the woman made multiple unwanted sexual advances. The flight attendants did not move her until the 4th complaint, when the woman grabbed his penis [and] ripped off his protective face mask.
The lawsuit claims the woman previously asked the NFL player why he wore a face mask. He said it’s due to the growing COVID-19 concerns. The woman said he looked &#8220;frightening&#8221; with the mask on. The NFL player also claims the woman was intoxicated and taking prescription pills.
The NFL player does not wish to release his identity. He filed the lawsuit under &#8220;John Doe 1&#8221; with another man &#8220;John Doe 2&#8221; sitting in his row with similar claims. Both men are described as African American males. The woman is described as a middle-aged Caucasian female.</blockquote>
In an update, the Bleacher Report host added that a First Amendment complaint has been filed &#8220;to include battery on top of the other 7 complaints previously filed.&#8221;
The firm representing the two men, the Darwish and Azizian Law Firm, has since issued a <a href="https://twitter.com/MasterTes/status/1263117696855613440">statement</a> explaining the ultimate &#8220;goal&#8221; of the case.
&#8220;We bring this lawsuit with the hope that it will be one of the last of its kind,&#8221;  it reads. &#8220;Our wish would be that in the future no passengers’ multiple warnings and complaints to flight attendants, the onboard authority figures, will go unheeded until it’s too late and the damage has been done. This matter is unfortunately based on several instances of assault – physical, sexual, and verbal – on a &#8216;red-eye&#8217; United Airlines flight. Instances that could have been prevented, if not the harm reduced, had United’s personnel simply taken action sooner.&#8221;
&#8220;In-flight sexual assaults continue to be an ongoing problem during commercial flights, particularly during &#8216;red-eye&#8217; flights,&#8221; the statement continues. &#8220;In 2018, the FBI issued strict warnings to airlines, including United, about the number of sexual assaults increasing at &#8216;an alarming rate.&#8217; United has an obligation to keep its passengers safe.&#8221;
&#8220;Our goal is to shine a light on how assaults can, and are, being made on men, and not just women,” attorneys Darren Darwish and Benji Azizian explain. &#8220;This is significant because assault is assault, regardless of the gender, race, and physical attributes of the victim. Once these characteristics are added into the equation, the usual stigma and social stereotypes associated with sexual assaults are amplified.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.tmz.com/2020/05/20/nfl-player-united-airlines-lawsuit-sexual-assault/">TMZ</a> reports that United gave the anonymous player a $150 voucher following the incident. They also reported a succinct response from United. &#8220;The safety and well-being of our customers is always our top priority,&#8221; said a spokesperson. &#8220;In this instance, the customer involved was moved to a different seat. Because litigation is now pending, we’re unable to provide further comment.&#8221;
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NFL Player Sues United Airlines For Alleged Sexual Assault On Plane; United Responds

In a lawsuit filed anonymously to the Superior Court of the State of California for Los Angeles County on Wednesday, an NFL player alleges that he was

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