Former Tyndall students in class action will start to receive payouts.

LEGAL READER

George Tyndall, former University of Southern California (USC) gynecologist, has been accused by hundreds of former female students of sexual harassment and abuse, and U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson, appointed by Ronald Reagan, in Los Angeles said he would give final approval to USC’s landmark $215-million class action settlement with Tyndall’s patients.  The decision would allow the university to start issuing payouts to the nearly 18,000 women involved. In addition to the $215 million, USC has agreed. read more »

Feds allege LA apartment manager sexually harassed women

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Women who lived in two apartment buildings in Los Angeles faced years of sexual harassment and retaliation by a property manager, violating the Fair Housing Act, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a lawsuit Monday.

The lawsuit filed in federal court alleges that since at least 2006, Filomeno Hernandez engaged in unwanted sexual touching, made unwelcome sexual advances and comments, and offered to reduce rent or excuse late or unpaid rent in exchange for sex. Hernandez also is accused of entering women’s apartments without their consent. read more »

Church sexual abuse: French priest Preynat admits 'caressing' boys

BBC

A former French priest accused of sexually abusing dozens of Boy Scouts has admitted "caressing" children in ways he knew were wrong, at the beginning of his trial in France.

"It could be four or five children a week," Bernard Preynat, 74, told the court in Lyon on Tuesday.

He is accused of assaulting at least 80 young boys in the 1980s and 1990s and faces ten years in prison if convicted. read more »

What Weinstein's defense team will unleash

CNN

Two years after allegations of sexual abuse against Harvey Weinstein sparked a global movement, his rape trial is underway in Manhattan criminal court. While the world looks on, jurors will hear over a month of testimony related to two alleged incidents of sexual assault — one woman has accused Weinstein of forcing oral sex on her in 2006, and the other has accused Weinstein of raping her in 2013. read more »