Crimes Against Women

File this one somewhere between “duh” and “would you really have expected otherwise?” A former staffer from Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign has alleged that the campaign pays women staffers far less than men working the same position and that sexism is rampant from top-down throughout the campaign organization. As first …

The founder of Bikram yoga, 69-year-old millionaire Bikram Choudhury has been ordered by an Los Angeles court to pay $6.5 million to his former lawyer Minakshi Jafa-Bodden. Ms. Jafa-Bodden represented Choudhury from 2011 to 2013.  She claims she lost her job because because she spoke out about his sexual harassment and …

Two anti-abortion activists for the group Center for Medical Progress were indicted by a grand jury in Harris County, Texas for their activities in secretly recording a video which purported to show Planned Parenthood employees illegally selling fetal tissue for profit.  The same grand jury has stated that it has found no …

Just before his trial was supposed to begin, former Wisconsin cop Steven Zelich, who had been accused to murdering two women and leaving their bodies along a stretch of rural highway in briefcases, pleaded guilty to the murder of 19-year-old Oregon woman Jenny Gamez.  Her body was found in June …

A Pennsylvania mother was fatally shot after she refused to talk to a man at a local bar, officials say. Shortly after, the suspect allegedly followed and fatally shot her near her car. According to WTAE, Janese Talton-Jackson, 29, was leaving the bar around 1:50AM when the suspect followed and …

The Republican Majority Whip for the Tennessee House Of Representatives has agreed to resign his title – but not his seat – after being exposed sexually harassing three different women. Via Raw Story: State Rep. Jeremy Durham officially stepped down hours after the GOP leadership released a statement saying he was …

Last week, we reported that Daniel Holtzclaw had been sentenced to 263 years concurrent years in prison for the serial rape of 13 black, predominantly poor women. While we absolutely applaud the justice that was served, we also recognize at the same time the profound level of irreversible damage done …

Rapes by attackers previously unknown to their victims, known as ‘stranger rapes’ are occurring at an escalating rate in New York City.  While only 117 ‘stranger rapes’ were reported in 2014, the city reported 166 in 2015, and last year those numbers per month increased over the course of the …

New disturbing details have emerged in the case of California plaintiff Heather Marlowe, who was drugged and raped in 2010.  Despite her repeated requests over the course of years, the SFPD failed to test her rape kit — and now they’re being sued as well as the city of San …

Indie musicians are coming forward about repeated sexual harassment and assault they have experienced from the same PR manager throughout the past five years.  The accused, Heathcliff Berru, is the founder and CEO of Life Or Death PR, an established music PR and marketing firm that works with independent artists …

It may be 2016, but to some men that simply means it’s a fresh take at treating women like animals. A recent video posted to youtube shows a black man ‘walking’ a white woman around a mall in a mask while she is chained to a leash. The man has her …

Daniel Holtzclaw, who we previously reported was found guilty of committing 18 counts of rape, has just been sentenced to 263 years in prison. Full Story – Think Progress

Local activists in Minnesota have been urging local, state, and federal law enforcement units to take seriously a disturbing trend of crimes against Native American women, efforts they claim have been met with callous indifference from police forces and lawmakers. Three Native American women have been killed and two more …

Amnesty International has released a report on the plight of women and girls on the migrant trail from Turkey into Europe and the results are grave.  Migrant women are at high risk of sexual violence, financial exploitation and harassment while other refugees, smugglers and security staff such as European police …

Hours before his mother became the latest Tea Partier to throw support behind Donald Trump, Track Palin was arrested in the family’s Alaska hometown of Wasilla on suspicion of assaulting a woman and carrying a gun while intoxicated. Via Huffington Post: Track Palin, 26, was arrested late on Monday night …