Sentences with phrase «rape allegations»

Nearly a third of rape allegations were wrongly assessed not to be crimes by police, and in some cases officers made «subjective judgments» about the complainant's credibility.

Other young men became depressed and suicidal after being the victim of a false rape allegation on campus.

She wrote that she submitted an open - records request about a 20 - year - old rape allegation involving a then - professor.

Studies show that only 9 % of rape allegations are false, the same rate as for other types of crime, such as child abuse.

Actress Reese Witherspoon on Monday urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo to open an investigation into Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance over his office's handling of rape allegations against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

The CPS says «no further action» will be taken over rape allegations made against Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk.

Weinstein has denied rape allegations.

The Erie County comptroller has written a letter to the chairman of the county legislature asking for the body to appoint a special counsel to investigate rape allegations against the former commissioner of the Department of Social Services.

A senior prosecutor known for winning a murder conviction in the killing of Etan Patz has been put in charge of the Manhattan district attorney's investigation into rape allegations against the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, two people with knowledge of the investigation said.

He faces rape allegations in New Orleans, where he's accused of sexually assaulting three women in 2013.

Marilyn Manson splits with longtime bassist following rape allegations.

George Galloway has been banned by the National Union of Students (NUS) following his recent comments regarding rape allegations against Julian Assange.

Several felonies filed against a former Cornell University student surrounding rape allegations have been dismissed.

Salma Yaqoob, one of the original founders of Respect, and the party's other high - profile politician, cut ties with the party in 2012, citing Galloway's comments about rape allegations made against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Instead, its wide release brought weak box office returns, historical accuracy criticism, and bad publicity after rape allegations surrounding director Nate Parker resurfaced.

That movie saw its once - lofty Oscar hopes dashed virtually overnight when its director and star, Nate Parker, became enmeshed in a controversy over past rape allegations for which he had been acquitted.

Initially, there had been a crisis within the Commission, especially the trained lawyer Commissioners, as to whether it was proper to accept sexual assault and rape allegations for this type of civil resolution, rather than referring them straight away to the police for criminal charges.

Revd Jim Percival, 64, from Holy Trinity Church in Freckleton was questioned by officers on Tuesday on suspicion of a historical rape allegation, relating to a 28 - year - old woman.

Hague and his former special adviser Lady Helic have written to the FCO to demand to know what it is doing to investigate and document rape allegations against Burmese forces.

The studio turned heads when it picked up the actor's directorial debut for a record - breaking $ 18.5 million deal, but their clear - cut plan to turn «The Birth of a Nation» into their next Oscar powerhouse was derailed after Parker's college rape allegations and subsequent trial resurfaced just ahead of the film's fall festival launch.

Condon's film also completely skims over the well - publicized rape allegations against Assange, and although that would have made an already unfocused narrative even more so, it's an important piece to the puzzle.

The company famously ponied up $ 17.5 million for Nate Parker's 2016 historical drama «The Birth of a Nation,» which grossed only $ 15.8 million in the wake of resurfaced rape allegations against its star - director - cowriter (he was acquitted of the charges, which stemmed from his college days).

But its top contender last year, «The Birth of Nation» — which Searchlight bought for a record $ 17.5 million at Sundance — was derailed after a 1999 rape allegation surfaced against director and star Nate Parker.

For a moment, let's table the #MeToo / Time's Up movement dominating Hollywood (and the country), and the on - the - record rape allegations made against Kobe Bryant by a young woman who was intimidated out of testifying against him, and first discuss the Oscar - nominated animation short, «Dear Basketball.»

In A False Report, an expansion of their Pulitzer Prize - winning ProPublica article «An Unbelievable Story of Rape,» journalists T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong posit that centuries of bias against women's rape allegations continue to infect the U.S. legal system.

Thus I'm wondering if Joe were to be foolish enough to try suing for libel or slander when I inform women to avoid him due to multiple rape allegations that I'm aware of (I've warned people through both mediums so either could apply) and I refused to produce the women who shared with me in private about the rapes rather the lack of proof would make me guilty of the crime even though these individuals exist?

Months after rape allegations from the early 2000s resurfaced against Danny Masterson, Netflix announced that he will be...

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that some of the texts sent from Mays» phone suggest that he thought his coach Reno Saccoccia would protect him from the fallout over rape allegations.

LA TIMES - June 12 - Skout has temporarily shut down its services for teens amid a series of rape allegations involving its underage users.

George Galloway has been banned from the National Union of Students (NUS) following his recent comments regarding rape allegations against Julian Assange.

For even after the disclosure of sexual assault in Hollywood by the likes of Weinstein, Kobe Bryant — a man with a past rape allegation that was later dropped — was awarded with an Oscar for his short film Dear Basketball.

(Though it's also clouded by the controversy of rape allegations against Parker.)

Speaking of Weinstein, prosecutor Joan Illuzzi has taken over the Manhattan district attorney's investigation of rape allegations against the disgraced movie mogul.

Swedish prosecutors in May dropped their investigation into the rape allegations, but British police have said Assange would still be arrested if he left the embassy.

Assange, who denies the rape allegations, fears that if he is arrested he will be handed over to the United States to face prosecution over WikiLeaks» publication of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents in one of the largest information leaks in U.S. history.

Assange has been holed up for more than five years in the Ecuadorean embassy in London where he was granted asylum in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over rape allegations.

The discredited story was intended to call attention to the issue of sexual violence on college campuses, but it might have had the opposite effect by reinforcing the notion that rape allegations are often fictitious, a team from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism concluded in its critique.

Earlier this year, Pishevar got a U.K. court to prohibit a local newspaper from reporting on his arrest following a rape allegation against him.

Hackett, an executive producer of the Amazon series «The Man in the High Castle,» had previously declined to publicize specifics of the incident, but later said she felt compelled to come forward after a host of women went public with harassment and rape allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

In 1993, Eileen's daughter, Stephanie, lodged a rape allegation against a priest in the archdiocese of Melbourne.