Category Archive for : ‘VICTIM USES COURTS TO STRIKE BACK’

August 27, 2019
Zachary Hansen
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A teenager is suing Fayette County Public Schools officials after she said she was expelled for reporting an on-campus sexual assault.

The National Women’s Law Center, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, filed the suit Friday in federal court on behalf of the ex-Fayette County High School student, according to a news release.

AJC.com does not identify accusers of alleged sexual assault without their consent. The teen spoke to Channel 2 Action News shortly after she was expelled in 2017.

“I came to them and they did me wrong,” she told

Friday, August 23rd 2019
Kantele Franko
abc 6 on your side

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Lawyers for men suing Ohio State University over decades-old alleged sexual misconduct by a team doctor say the growing number of accusers has topped 300.

Totals confirmed to The Associated Press put the group’s size in the same ballpark as the initial wave of plaintiffs who got $425 million from Michigan State University to settle claims related to Larry Nassar , the now-imprisoned gymnastics doctor accused of molesting hundreds of women and girls.

Of the 300-plus men in the Ohio State

longislandpress.com

It has been more than a decade since Amy, as she’s known in court papers, wasfirst sexually abused by her uncle.  The abuse ended a long time ago and the uncle is inprison but the pictures he made when she 8 or 9 are among the most widely circulated childpornography images online.  Amy is now 20 years old and is taking aim at anyone who wouldview those images.  She is asking for restitution in hundreds of criminal cases around thecountry.  The issue of criminal restitution of child pornography possession cases

Most people don’t know that if you are a victim of a violent crime, you are entitled to services and crime victim compensation, said Laura Ahearn, founder and executive director of the Suffolk County Crime Victims Center, an organization in Stony Brook recently established to support all victims of violent crimes.  Ahearn also serves as executive director of Parents For Megan’s Law.  For years, there have been established protocols for a specific population of victims, whereby organizations are actually reaching out to them to ensure that they are being provided