Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day,” network legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin reacted to a clip of Donald Trump Jr. discussing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations and his fear of such claims becoming weaponized.
Toobin mocked the idea of “white men” fearing they can be falsely accused.
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“Every night, I cry myself to sleep over the fate of white men in America,” Toobin stated. “White men have no power, white men — I mean, it’s such garbage.”
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He added, “You know what? If you sexually assault someone in high school, your life should be ruined, your life should be pursued. The idea that this is somehow unjust — remember, this all started with accusations of sexual assault. How about the lives of the women who were sexually assaulted in high school? How about 15-year-old Ms. Blasey, she wasn’t Ms. Blasey Ford in those days, how about her life? All this whining about the poor plight of white men is ridiculous.”
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WEST JORDAN, Utah — Two men have been arrested in connection with the rape of a 14-year-old Utah girl that police say was recorded on video.
According to a statement of probable cause, police were contacted September 9 about a sexual assault involving a 14-year-old girl from West Jordan.
The girl’s father told police the girl had slept over at a friend’s house the previous night and made arrangements to sneak out with three guys, one of whom she had met before and communicated with through Snapchat.
The girl told police the men took her to a gas station to get alcohol before going to a mall parking lot, a hookah bar, and then a party at a home. She said the last thing she remembers is leaving the party and being in the back seat of a car with a man kissing her, and she said she told the man to stop.
Police obtained a recording that shows the victim in the back seat of a car with her head hanging off the seat and outside the door.
“[Victim] appears to be unresponsive through most of the video, but does make feeble attempts to push the person on top of her off,” the PC statement states. “It appears [Victim] is passed out and/or unconscious throughout most of the video and clearly cannot give consent to anything that is happening to her.”
The video shows two males apparently performing sex acts on the girl as the third man records the assault.
Police identified the man who the girl had met previously as Leclair Dodjim, who goes by “LA”. Police say the video shows the other men calling him “LA” as he is on top of the victim.
Dodjim admitted to police that they picked the victim up and they all consumed alcohol. He said the other man, who he called “Nash”, had sex with the girl before he attempted to do the same. He told police he was “too drunk” and so he just laid on her, and he denied performing any sex acts on the teen.
Dodjim identified the man who recorded the assault as his brother, Richard Mbaye Djassera. The brother was located and agreed to speak with police. He said he saw his brother and his brother’s friend having sex in the back seat of his car and decided to film it.
“He said he thought it was funny so he recorded them having sex on his phone,” police wrote in the PC statement.
Both Dodjim and Djassera have been booked into the Salt Lake County Jail. It is unclear whether police have identified the third suspect at this time.
Dodjim was booked for previous charges as well as several new charges that include aggravated kidnapping, rape, forcible sodomy, sexual exploitation of a minor, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and aggravated sexual assault.
Djassera was booked for previous charges as well as several new charges that include aggravated kidnapping, rape, forcible sodomy, sexual exploitation of a minor, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and aggravated sexual assault.
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A woman who duped her female friend into having sex by pretending to be a man has been jailed for six and a half years.
Gayle Newland, of Willaston, Cheshire, created a ‘disturbingly complex’ online persona to achieve her own ‘bizarre sexual satisfaction’, carrying on the deceit for more than two years.
The 27-year-old was found guilty at a retrial at Manchester Crown Court in June of committing sexual assault by penetration, using a prosthetic penis without her blindfolded victim’s consent.
Newland sobbed and slumped to the floor of the dock as sentence was handed down on Thursday.
She was originally jailed for eight years in November 2015 after she was convicted of the same offences.
But the conviction was later quashed on the grounds that the trial judge’s summing up of the case was not fair and balanced.
Newland received concurrent terms of six years for three counts of sexual assault committed in 2013.
She was handed an extra six months in jail for an offence of fraud committed between March 2014 and September 2015.
Reporting restrictions on the fraud matter were lifted on Thursday by the Recorder of Manchester, Judge David Stockdale QC.
The defendant admitted defrauding her former employers, an internet-based advertising agency, of ‘9,000 by creating fake client profiles.
The retrial jury was not told of the fraud conviction until it had returned its verdicts.
Judge Stockdale told Newland: ‘She (the complainant) did not consent to these invasive acts of penetration because her willing compliance with your abusive behaviour was obtained by a deceit.
‘This was a deceit of such subtlety and cunning in its planning and was a deceit, from your point of view, so successful in its execution that an outsider unaware of the full history of the case might find it difficult to comprehend.
‘But truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction. The truth, the whole truth, here is as surprising as it is profoundly disturbing.’
He went on: ‘It is difficult to conceive of a deceit so degrading or so damaging for the victim upon its discovery.’
Newland had told her victim, also in her 20s, to wear a blindfold at all times when they met at the complainant’s flat.
She created a fictional Facebook profile, pretending to be a half-Filipino half-Latino man called Kye Fortune, using an American man’s photographs and videos.
She spent ‘hundreds’ of hours talking on the telephone to her friend as Kye, telling her ’emotionally vulnerable’ victim ‘he’ was undergoing treatment for cancer and was paranoid about his physical appearance.
The complainant agreed to demands for her to wear a blindfold at all times during up to 15 sexual encounters and while watching television, going on a car journey and even sunbathing.
Newland denied concealing her true identity and claimed both women were gay and struggling with their sexuality when they met and had sex, with her as Kye, during role-play.
The court heard that Newland held a senior position with her unnamed former employer, which paid bloggers to post content.
Simon Medland QC, prosecuting, said Newland ‘manipulated’ the firm’s payments system in which contributors were rewarded with small sums for posting content.
He said: ‘In order for the defendant to make the scam work for her, she needed to create the fake blogger profiles to fool the company’s directors into thinking that the person really existed and had really done the work.
‘It was of sophisticated nature and involved significant planning.’
Newland’s barrister, Nigel Power QC, conceded it was ‘stupid offending’ given that she was on bail at the time while police investigated the sexual allegations made against her.
Judge Stockdale told Newland: ‘You went to extraordinary lengths to manipulate (the complainant) and control her. Only when your control was absolute did you put your deceit to the ultimate test and allow a meeting to take place between her and the fictional Kye Fortune.
‘Such was the desire for one-to-one contact with him that you had engendered she was willing to go to any lengths to meet him. Willing to wear a blindfold, willing to agree to not to look at him at all.
‘She was willing to believe because she wanted to believe that Kye Fortune had a battery of health problems. She was desperate to be with Kye Fortune on your terms.’
A further indication of her cynical powers of manipulation, if they were needed, was evidence of her deceit of three other women by her bogus alter ego, said the judge.
One of the women, who cannot be named for legal reasons, continued to be deceived by Newland just days after police launched their investigation into the 2013 complaint, which the judge said showed ‘a chilling desire’ on her part to control and manipulate the lives of others – although no offences took place.
Judge Stockdale said the complainant’s evidence in court made clear her humiliation, sense of shame and degradation and highlighted the deeply damaging and long-lasting trauma she had suffered.
He said: ‘In her own words, she said the ‘nightmares still remain, the distrust remains and the fear still remains’.’
In extracts read from her most recent victim impact statement, the complainant said the defendant had ‘managed to plague every attempt I have made to make my life positive’ and had left her with ‘this continuous, ominous, unsettling feeling she has planted in what is left of my life’.
‘She has created a prison for the joyful persona I once had,’ she said. ‘I can only hope I can move on fully and not do the time with her.’
Mr Power said that in terms of her sexuality and her sex his client had significant and long-standing mental health problems.
From an early age it was documented she had social anxiety, general anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, an eating disorder and dyspraxia.
But Mr Power said that, more importantly, since her first conviction she had been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and gender dysphoria, also known as gender identity disorder.
He said: ‘The defendant now has good insight into those conditions and is obtaining such treatment as she can to help to come to terms with them.
‘She is in a much better position to express herself as she has always wanted to do.
‘The real progress she has made is likely to be diminished if not underdone by returning to prison.’
Asking the judge to consider imposing a suspended sentence, Mr Power pointed out the notoriety of the case alone had provided ‘real and tangible’ punishment to the defendant.
Mr Power continued: ‘Without wishing to add to that notoriety the vast majority of the 11 months she spent in custody placed her in a situation that she found overwhelming and daunting, and almost certainly would not have come about but for the notoriety.’
Judge Stockdale noted that Newland had shown no remorse and maintained her innocence.
He accepted the psychiatric evidence that the risk of any re-offending was ‘very low’ and that her difficult and troubled adolescence together with her psychological and psychiatric conditions were mitigating factors.
But he said: ‘They do not excuse your offending. They do not give you licence to mislead and fabricate as you did and to inflict upon (the complainant) the suffering she has had to endure.’
He noted the character references given to the court by her two brothers and her parents and also an ‘intelligent and articulate’ letter written to him by the defendant herself.
He told her: ‘You have now come to terms fully with your sexuality and you are more content for that.
‘You describe how you will take your life in a different and more constructive direction.
‘You say that you have no bad feelings towards the complainant and wish her nothing but happiness but there remains no acknowledgement of the wrong you did to her.’
The judge explained that by law he could not pass a longer custodial term than the one passed in 2015 because it had been referred back to the Crown Court by the Court of Appeal.
He said she had committed serious sexual offending in a planned and sustained deceit but her health problems were significant mitigating factors.
Newland will also have to sign the Sex Offender Register for life and was also subjected to a life-long Sexual Harm Prevention Order in which among the terms are not befriending anyone by electronic means by using a false identity.
Prosecutors nearing end of case against Bill Cosby
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors’ case against Bill Cosby drew toward a close Friday with the jury hearing the comedian’s damaging, decade-old testimony about giving to women he wanted to have sex with.
Testifying under oath in 2005, the TV star said he had obtained several prescriptions for the now-banned sedative in the 1970s but didn’t take them himself, according to the deposition read to the jury.
“When you got the quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?” Cosby was asked.
“Yes,” he said.
Cosby, 79, is on trial on charges he drugged and sexually assaulted former Temple University employee Andrea Costand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. He has said it was consensual.
In the deposition, Cosby said he gave Constand three half-tablets of the cold and allergy medicine Benadryl. Prosecutors have suggested he gave her something stronger — perhaps quaaludes, a highly popular party drug in the 1970s that was banned in the U.S. in 1982.
Prosecutors evidently saved the quaalude testimony for practically the end of their case, for maximum effect.
Defense lawyer Brian McMonagle, clearly wanting to move past Cosby’s talk about giving drugs to women, asked no questions about it on cross-examination.
Prosecutors were expected to rest their case later Friday, setting the stage for the defense to begin presenting its side on Monday.
Cosby gave the deposition as part of a lawsuit filed by Constand and later settled for an undisclosed sum. The deposition was sealed for years until portions were released by a judge in 2015 at the request of The Associated Press.
That, in turn, spurred Pennsylvania prosecutors to reopen their investigation of Cosby and arrest him a decade after the district attorney at the time decided the case was too weak to prosecute.
For the jury at his sexual assault trial, the deposition could be the closest it comes to hearing from Cosby himself, since he said recently that he did not intend to take the stand.
Constand, 44, testified this week that Cosby penetrated her with his fingers against her will in after giving her pills that left her paralyzed, unable to tell him to stop. Cosby could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted.
In the deposition, Cosby also recounted a telephone conversation he had with Constand’s mother, saying he apologized for the sexual encounter with her daughter because he was afraid she thought of him as “a dirty old man.”
“I apologized to this woman. But my apology was, my God, I’m in trouble with these people because this is an old man and their young daughter and the mother sees this,” he said.
Cosby also worried about the repercussions from public disclosure.
“Do you think there would be a financial consequence to you if the public believed that you gave Andrea a drug that took away her ability to consent and then had sexual contact with her?” Cosby was asked in a passage read Friday.
“Yes,” he said.
Cosby also recounted calling Constand’s family and offering her money for graduate school. Constand refused the offer and reported Cosby to police, suing him after prosecutors failed to file charges.
Prosecutors also put on the stand a psychologist who testified that victims of celebrities are often afraid to come forward because of the possible backlash. Constand did not go to police until a year after the alleged assault.
“If it’s a well-known person, the victim takes on a lot of responsibility for that person’s reputation, especially if that person is well-liked or beloved,” Veronique Valliere testified.
Cosby’s lawyers asked for a mistrial, complaining that Valliere was offering observations about Cosby even though she was only allowed to testify generally about victim behavior. The judge rejected the request.
During a break Friday, Cosby’s spokesman dangled the possibility the comic might testify after all. Doing so would carry enormous risk for Cosby, exposing him to cross-examination about some of the lurid things in his deposition.
The spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, said some members of Cosby’s family will join him in court as the trial wears on. He said Cosby told wife Camille to stay away from the courthouse so she wouldn’t have to endure the “media circus.” She has yet to be seen in court.
Some 60 women have come forward to say Cosby sexually violated them, but the statute of limitations for prosecution had run out in nearly every case.
The AP does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission, which Constand has done.
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Man found not guilty after blaming sleepwalking for sex attack
Sleepwalking might just get you off.
A Manhattan jury Friday found Nick Liu, 27, not guilty of molesting his roommate’s bikini-model girlfriend after his lawyer Dan Ollen argued that he was sleepwalking at the time.
“Not guilty,” read the forewoman in Manhattan Criminal Court on one count each of misdemeanor forcible touching and third-degree sex abuse.
Liu’s mother, Lisa Philips, burst into sobs of relief. As Liu left the courtroom, accompanied by his girlfriend, his parents and sister, he said, “I’m very happy to have my life back.”
The Georgetown graduate got into hot water after a night of heavy drinking Sept. 11, 2015. Early the next morning, he sleepwalked into his roommate Shane Payne’s bedroom in the StuyTown pad they once shared.
Payne’s horrified girlfriend awoke to find Liu kissing her neck and putting his fingers inside her, she told jurors. The brunette bodybuilder, who has posed for Hooter’s bikini calendar, yelled “Stop! Stop!” as she shoved the 155-pound intruder off of her.
During her weepy testimony, she insisted that Liu was fully conscious when he attacked her.
But the mild-mannered defendant told jurors he has suffered from sleepwalking since he was a young child. He said he fell asleep that morning and his next memory was of “someone jostling me quite aggressively.” He was distraught when he realized it was his pal’s girlfriend.
The out-of-work investment analyst ran back into his bedroom and started hyperventilating. “I was breathing quite fast, I just felt horrible,” he said.
His girlfriend of 5 years, Alexandra Berg, testified about his sleep disturbances. She said that he grabs her breasts and vagina about twice a month in his sleep.
“The first few times it happened, I didn’t know he was asleep,” she said. “He woke up during it, and you could see his eyes going from unconscious to confused.”
Illegal Immigrant Accused of Repeatedly Raping, Kidnapping Autistic Woman
An illegal immigrant, along with another man, is accused of kidnapping and repeatedly raping a woman with autism while holding her against her will.
Luis Arnold Lopez-Lara, a 25-year-old illegal immigrant, and 23-year-old Helmer Alexander Erazo allegedly kidnapped the 22-year-old woman with autism after she left her residence after being upset, according to Ozarks First.
The woman was reportedly walking past a mobile home when Lopez-Lara and Erazo offered the woman alcohol and told her to come inside. A third man told warned the girl not to listen to the two men.
The woman was held against her will for three days, according to the victim, where Lopez-Lara repeatedly sexually assaulted and raped her.
Lopez-Lara allegedly gave the woman a beer, leaving her drunk, though she repeatedly tried to fend the illegal immigrant off and escape, but was told she would be killed if she resisted.
The victim also told police that Lopez-Lara and Erazo starved her for the three days, giving her Mexican food which she did not want to eat and then only giving her water, chips and a candy bar. According to the victim, she hid in a closet one day and was found by Erazo who grabbed her by the neck and threw her up against a wall.
Local neighborhood residents say they fear for their children’s safety and that they cannot believe the incident occurred in their backyard.
“I haven’t let her ride the bus, I don’t want her out in the neighborhood, I don’t want her unsupervised,” neighborhood resident Lindsey Smith told Ozarks First.
“To have it literally be in our backyard and can throw a stone at these guys is horrible,” Smith said.
“Horrible, absolutely horrible. We’ve never had anything like this go on,” Smith continued. “We’ve never felt like we really had to lock our doors, lock our cars and watch our kids at night. Just not the town I grew up in anymore.”
Lopez-Lara and Erazo are being charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, rape and the illegal immigrant is facing deportation. Two other Hispanic men who witnessed the kidnapping and sexual assaults are awaiting charges.
Lopez-Lara is being held by the Greene County Sheriff’s Office without bond and Erazo is being held on a $150,000 bond.
