Sentences with phrase «so alleged victims»

One of Lord Rennard's accusers, Alison Smith, phoned the Scotland Yard hotline set up by police so alleged victims can come forward, she has encouraged other women to do the same.

Not exact matches

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

So we have got to put a stop to these shaming narratives that cast the alleged abusers as innocent like Jesus and the alleged victims as persecutors.

As we learned during our series on abuse in the church, cases of fabricated allegations of child abuse are quite rare, so when this many consistent counts are leveled against an organization, we should be wary of jumping to the defense of the accused and treating the alleged victims as liars.

So what you're saying is that by pointing out that you have no compassion whatsoever for the alleged victims and have declared yourselves Long's Lynch Mob, I'm the one with no compassion...

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.

It revealed that the inquiry, conducted by the law firm Clifford Chance, had identified 13 alleged victims of Clarke, the so - called Tatler Tory, over a 20 - month period, including six accusations of «sexually inappropriate behaviour».

Is it any wonder reporting rates remain so low, when it's taken decades for Bill Cosby's alleged victims to be heard?

Ms Jack said the party's procedures were «up the creek» and suggested that if Lord Rennard maintained his refusal to apologise he could ask for a hearing so that he and his alleged victims could put their cases.

But New York is one of the most restrictive in the nation when it comes to allowing victims from long - ago abuse to file lawsuits against their alleged perpetrators, and so neither the former priest or the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo is liable for the acts he told The Buffalo News he committed long ago.

With one alleged victim of climate change after another — from pikas, penguins and polar bears to whales — he thoroughly dismantles the so - called science that blames each and every worrisome observation on man - made climate change, and he explains the true causes, natural and man - made, of their travails.

This factor is not concerned with how intimate the plaintiff and defendant were or with their physical proximity, so much as with whether the actions of the alleged wrongdoer have a close or direct effect on the victim, such that the wrongdoer ought to have had the victim in mind as a person potentially harmed.

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.

Of course, a victim still could allege that he or she was under duress or incapacitated (drugs, alcohol, star - struck, whatever) so you really take on an amount of risk no matter the precautions.

The Committee, having taken note of the explanations provided by the delegation, invites the State party to envisage regulating the burden of proof in civil proceedings involving racial discrimination so that once an alleged victim has established a prima facie case that he or she has been a victim of such discrimination, it shall be for the respondent to provide evidence of an objective and reasonable justification for differential treatment.

As a result, most DV advocates will not realize how dangerous the tool is to victims of abuse, just as most custody evaluators and others schooled in the family system dynamic will see it as validating their views (that downplay DV allegations and look to whether mothers alleging abuse do so to deny father access of their children).

«The alleged victim claims Viiperi — a 21 - year - old male model — punched him in the face sometime around 2:30 AM... and injured him so badly, he needed medical attention.