Sentences with phrase «alleged victims who»

Family income is devastated by the need to rent a second residence and the police and crown seem hostile to alleged victims who beg hopelessly for a right to have some say in the prosecution that has taken over their lives.

And so, The Choirboy is the only one of Pell's alleged victims who is capable of deceit.

A report in the Telegraph claimed Chelsea paid off an alleged victim who had threatened to go public with allegations he was sexually assaulted.

Not exact matches

Victims of the alleged curse are said to have included the son of Mughal Emperor Babur, who was exiled from his kingdom; Shah Jahan, who was imprisoned by his son; and Nadir Shah, who was assassinated.

This week, Uber temporarily lost its CEO, saw a board member leave after making a sexist comment, and was sued by a rape victim who alleges the company improperly gained access to her medical records.

Over the past year, I've been corresponding more regularly with victims of abuse who have patiently and graciously exposed me to the ways in which the Church routinely mishandles abuse allegations by shaming the alleged victims and protecting church leaders.

Finnegan's other attorney, Dan Monahan - who also filed the suits on behalf of the previous two alleged victims of sexual abuse - said he would file as many lawsuits as he has to.

The names of the alleged victims, who are now in their 20s, have not been publicly released.

Ms Humphryes asked if Soper had become a teacher so that he could start «monstrously» abusing boys, as was claimed by one of the alleged victims - who can not be identified for legal reasons.

Evans — who spent two and a half years in prison for the crime he would later be cleared of committing — being found not guilty does not mean the alleged victim lied.

The referee who booked Mario Balotelli after the Nice striker alleged he had been the victim of racist abuse has insisted he did not hear the insults.

The Member of Parliament, for Fanteakwa North, who is the Chief Executive Officer of the collapsed Bank, has denied loaning deposits of the victims to sponsor Nana Akufo Addo campaign as alleged.

She asks about 9/11 victims, who are alleged to have been hacked.

Schneiderman, a vocal supporter of the #MeToo movement who spoke out on behalf of the alleged victims of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, was accused of beating and psychologically abusing four women that he was in relationships with.

The seventh alleged victim is Caitrin Kennedy, who is represented by Prathima Reddy, a civil rights lawyer who will be pursuing a claim in the federal court in Buffalo.

The teen soldier was the alleged victim of racial taunts, including being called «gook,» «chink,» and «dragon lady,» and subjected to daily physical abuse by fellow soldiers, who pelted him with rocks and ordered him to give instructions in Chinese, advocates said at last week's hearing.

Yesterday it emerged that Lord Stoneham, who was Director of Operations at Lib Dem HQ, — and therefore head of HR — during the period that some of the alleged offences took place, called one of the female victims after the news story broke, not to express concern or offer her support, but to criticise her for her actions and «angrily remonstrated» her down the telephone.

In addition to lifting time limits for child victims to file civil suits against their alleged abusers, and against institutions that failed to act against abuse under their roofs, the current bill would provide a one - year window during which past victims who have already exceeded the statute of limitations could go to court.

The specific mention of the treatment of alleged victims suggests the committee is largely sympathetic to the claims of some MPs, including former Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant, who claim their phones were hacked but that the police have done nothing to help them establish the facts.

Two alleged victims of an upstate pedophile who admitted to police that he abused hundreds of kids over four decades are livid over his pending release from prison and want the state attorney general to keep him locked up.

But says he believed at the time that he acted in the «best interest» of the alleged victims, who had sought privacy.

The 21 - year - old victim, who was not wearing any clothes, gave a description of her alleged assailant.

The measure also contains a one - year window of opportunity where any New Yorker who was sexually abused as a child can bring civil action against the alleged perpetrator, regardless of the victim's age.

Businesswoman Helena Morrissey, who conducted the inquiry, said that there should have been a formal investigation launched when his alleged victims first came forward.

Another Power Authority response was to place the alleged victim — an economist who has worked there since 2003 — in a basement area that was locked and inaccessible to co-workers, sources said.

Another requirement is that victims or bystanders who report alleged incidents of sexual assault not be prosecuted for college violations they reveal, such as alcohol or drug use that was connected to the incidents.

Yasmin Seweid, 18, joined a growing list of local and national alleged hate - crime victims when she told cops she was taunted Dec. 1 on the No. 6 train by three men who called her a terrorist and tried to snatch her hijab off her head while straphangers did nothing.

New York's GOP Chair Ed Cox says it's the Assembly Democrats who are engaging in a «war on women», after Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez was censured for sexual harassment, and it was revealed that the Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had authorized a previous secret settlement against two other alleged Lopez victims.

One of the newest alleged victims, investor Kartikey Trivedi of Boston, testified he never would have forked over money to Mazzeo if he knew Mazzeo — who claimed to be a CEO of a company called MA West — had a criminal record.

The case has proved especially embarrassing for the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, who has been asked repeatedly by the alleged victim to take action against Hancock, who rejects the allegations.

An investigation launched to examine the conduct of Conservative activist Mark Clarke has identified 13 people who were alleged victims.

Chief Inspector Oppong said the Police arrested Adjei who was alleged as the leader of the group, to assist in the investigations, but the angry youth besieged the Techiman Police station asking for him to e set free whilst supporters of the victims also demanded that he should be released to them for instant justice.

It was reported that some suspected individuals who were arrested by Oyo State Police Command in connection with Isiaka's killing were alleged to have waylaid the victim on his way to Osogbo where his life was finally taken.

Majia said the suspects, who were alleged to have been involved in the incident, were apprehended in the village following a complaint by the victim's father.

One of the #MeToo crusade's high profile voices has been actor Selma Blair, who gained the confidence to speak out after connecting on Twitter with fellow alleged victim, Canadian actor Chantal Cousineau.

He's inclined to blow off a flamboyant attorney (Stanley Tucci), who represents 84 alleged victims, and the high - strung head of a survivors» group (Neal Huff).

Their work has to be kept secret as they interview lawyers, surviving victims, and alleged priests who were shuffled around from parish to parish.

David Wolowitz, a New Hampshire lawyer who has represented private schools facing sexual abuse allegations, said it's understandable that alleged victims want the fullest possible disclosure — and also that schools want to proceed with caution.

Naming the partner could possibly enable readers to join the dots and potentially identify the associate who was the alleged victim of an incident that took place an unspecified number of years ago, in an unspecified location.

A counter-strategy of those who have been so accused — whether or not they actually committed sexual assault — can be to take the offensive and sue their accusers for defamation, thereby putting their alleged victims on the defensive.

Ten Twitter trolls learnt this the hard way when they revealed the identity of the woman who accused footballer Ched Evans of rape — despite the fact that alleged victims of sexual abuse are given anonymity for life — and earned themselves police cautions.

Updated: A Michigan man and convicted sex offender who pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in an alleged rape of a 12 - year - old girl was awarded joint legal custody of the boy who was conceived as a result of the crime, according to the victim's lawyer.

Toronto lawyer Mitchell Wine represents Singh, Lee and 20 other buyers who in late 2012 sued everyone involved — including Talon, Trump Toronto Hotel Management, as well as Donald Trump, Shnaider and Levitan personally — alleging they were «victims of an investment scheme and conspiracy.»

This would be a duty to potential victims of crime, enforceable mainly by people who have subsequently become victims because of an alleged failure to carry out the duty.

Those who fall in the «other» category often include employers and organizations responsible for putting alleged wrongdoers in contact with their victims.

A lawsuit begins with the filing of a complaint by the injury victim (the «plaintiff» and / or his or her attorney) in an appropriate New York courthouse and then serving or delivering a copy of this complaint to the individual (s) or entity / entities who are alleged to have negligently caused the plaintiff's injuries (the «defendant (s)»).

The respondents are alleged to have hired hitmen who tracked the couple down in the state of Punjab, killed the victim and severely beat the victim's husband.

These include: United States v. Resendiz - Ponce, which presents the question whether the omission of an element from a federal indictment can constitute harmless error (9th Circuit says no); Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., on whether a provider of pay phone services can sue a long distance carrier for alleged violations of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture on them.

There are victims of crime (or complainants who claim to be victims of alleged crimes, as we should probably say down to the moment of conviction), and there are those wrongfully convicted, but no - one else is a victim of the system, are they?

And shame on anyone who would use «privacy» to either silence the alleged victims or suppress the investigation of non-consensual acts.