Category Archive for : ‘VICTIM’S RIGHTS’

By ALEX BURNESS | aburness@denverpost.com | The Denver Post

After the man pulled Pasha Ripley’s hair, raped her and beat her to the point that she’d later need 140 stitches, he reminded her of what little power sex workers like her have in these situations.

“Who are you gonna tell? What are you gonna do?” she recalled him saying as he walked off.

At the hospital, staff wanted to call police on the man who’d assaulted her, but she wouldn’t let them.

“I knew that if I told the truth about what happened to

By Annalise Johnson Mar 22, 2022 Updated 12 hrs ago

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new bill requires the U.S. Department of Justice to give grants to law enforcement agencies to provide trauma-informed trainings for responding to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking crimes.

The Abby Honold Act was signed into law federally last week. It’s named after a former University of Minnesota student and sexual assault survivor.

“When I was sexually assaulted as a college student, one of the most traumatic parts of the aftermath was trying to report it. I

By Jan Murphy

Gov. Tom Wolf is threatening to turn up the heat on state lawmakers this summer to pass a bill that gives victims of child sexual abuse the opportunity to sue their abusers in court

Wolf announced Monday he will call them back to Harrisburg for a special session if they fail to send him a bill that opens a two-year retroactive window for these victims to file lawsuits outside of the statute of limitations as part of the state budget package in June.

“This needs to be the top priority,”

By RICHARD BAMMER | Vacaville Reporter

A 59-year-old man convicted last year of child sex crimes was sentenced Friday to 15 years to life, plus 12 years in state prison.

Darrell Michael Savelli, currently in custody at the Stanton Correctional Facility in Fairfield, is awaiting transfer to a state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facility following the hearing in Judge Daniel Healy’s courtroom, Department 2, in the Justice Building in Vallejo.

A jury on Sept. 13 found Savelli guilty of oral copulation of a minor 10 years or younger; and four counts of

NICOSIA, Cyprus — The Supreme Court in Cyprus overturned the conviction of a British woman given a four-month suspended sentence for making up claims that she was gang raped by as many as a dozen Israelis during a vacation in Cyprus in 2019, defense lawyers said Monday.

Michael Polak, who was among a team of lawyers representing the woman, called the decision a “watershed moment” for the woman and others “around the world who find themselves in similar positions.”

Polak said the Supreme Court agreed with the defense that the British woman

Kathy McGibbon Givens speaking at Montgomery County Coalition Against Human Trafficking

Twenty years ago, Kathy McGibbon Givens entered into an urban nightmare. At age 22, she started dating a man in Houston. When he invited her to go on a business trip with him to Dallas, she readily accepted. But when she arrived at the hotel, she was photographed for an escort website and prostituted out to men she didn’t know.

The ordeal lasted nine months, until she was able to escape back home to her family.

Now, the Houston-based woman tells her