Sexual harassment legislation should help victims, not their lawyers

All is not well at the University of Southern California. Recently rocked by the revelation that wealthy parents paid hundreds of thousands to obtain admission for their underperforming children, USC appointed a new president last week, Carol Folt. Not only will Folt manage the fallout from the college admissions scandal, but she will also see the university through a multi-million dollar settlement with the thousands of patients treated by alleged sexual abuser and former university gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall. That is, unless a cadre of high-paid lawyers get their way. read more »

They Thought It Was Their Uber. But the Driver Was a Predator

Mourners arrived at the funeral for Samantha Josephson in West Windsor, N.J., on Wednesday. Ms. Josephson was kidnapped and killed by a man impersonating an Uber driver in South Carolina, the police said.

On busy streets outside bars or clubs, people often hop into a car without a second thought. But the killing of Samantha Josephson, a 21-year-old college student in South Carolina who was stabbed to death after getting into a car she mistook for her Uber last weekend, has brought national attention to a rash of kidnappings, sexual assaults and robberies carried out largely against young women by assailants posing as ride-share drivers. read more »

Proposal to give sex abuse victims more time to sue dies in AZ House

Victims of child rape and sexual abuse won’t get more time to sue their assailants, at least not this year.

Rep. Regina Cobb, R-Kingman, refused to allow a vote on the measure Thursday in the Senate Appropriations Committee, which she chairs.

Cobb said she has no problem with expanding the current law that now requires victims to file suit within two years of turning 18. SB 1011 would have expanded that to 12 years, meaning when someone turns 30. read more »

Female doctors groped, propositioned and harassed by senior male colleagues

The UK’s largest medical trade union has become embroiled in the #MeToo scandal after leading female GPs said ”1970s sexism” was rife among male colleagues in senior roles in the British Medical Association. 

Issues raised by female doctors included being groped, subjected to belittling remarks about their bodies, sexually propositioned at national meetings, and sent unsolicited naked pictures. read more »