“Republicans are the party of family values.” Remember that old lie? Well based on the news these last few years, you wouldn’t be wrong to call the Republicans the party of cheaters, rapers, and child molesters.
The Majority Leader of the Wisconsin Assembly, Bill Kramer, may resign his leadership position as a result, reports the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Sources said the allegations against the 49-year-old Republican lawmaker involve a 33-year-old female lobbyist and at least one other woman. The Journal Sentinel has decided not to name the women.
Kramer, 49, could not be reached for comment and was not at his Waukesha home Friday night. His chief of staff, Cameron Sholty, said the lawmaker would be meeting with staff Saturday and would be talking with fellow Republican lawmakers over the next 48 hours. He declined to comment further.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos issued a statement calling the alleged conduct “reprehensible.” He said the issue would be resolved quickly
Darren Sharper has just been charged with 2 counts of rape in L.A. … after the former New Orleans Saints superstar allegedly drugged multiple women and raped them in his hotel room … TMZ Sports has learned.
Among the charges … two counts of rape by use of drugs, four counts of furnishing a controlled substance and one count of possession of a controlled substance, all felonies.
Sharper — who had a Hall of Fame-caliber NFL career as a safety — is accused of drugging the women with zolpidem (Ambien).
Officials say Sharper met the two womenin a West Hollywood nightclub on October 30th and invited them to another party.
On the way, officials say they stopped at Darren’s hotel room and he gave them each a shot.
The women then passed out and hours later one of the women claims she woke up with Sharper sexually assaulting her. The second woman says she woke up and “interrupted his actions.”
Officials say Sharper STRUCK AGAIN on January 14th … when he returned to the same West Hollywood nightclub and found two more women.
Sharper allegedly pulled the same scheme — inviting them back to hs room, gave them a shot, they passed out, he raped them.
Officials say both women left his hotel and sought medical treatment.
Sharper was arrested on January 17th. He was released on $200k bail. In addition to the rape, officials also say he was illegally in possession of morphine.
If convicted, Sharper faces more than 30 YEARS in prison. Officials are recommending the judge set his bail at $100 MILLION.
(Update: We’re told the $100 million bail was a typo … officials meant to request a $10 MILLION bail).
Officials say Sharper is also accused of raping women in 3 other states — including Arizona, Nevada and Louisiana.
A man who apparently posted a troubling image of a passed-out girl onto Twitter and made a sick rape joke – enraging thousands online – is to be investigated by police in Georgia.
Identified only as RichlonelyJuan on social media, the Twitter user sparked the controversy at 1.09 am on January 1 when he posted a photograph of what seems to be a girl lying on her back covered in vomit and added that he and his brother were going to sexually assault her.
The disturbing picture and shocking threat quickly traveled around the Internet and despite RichlonelyJuan’s insistence that the whole thing was a joke that got out of hand, authorities have confirmed that they will be conducting a thorough investigation.
In this tweet – one of the men involved refused to break the pretense that the whole thing was just one very bad joke
In tweets immediately after his first, RichlonelyJuan, whose identity has not yet been confirmed, even tried to insinuate that the girl had stopped breathing and no longer had a pulse.
As he became inundated with concerned people asking whether this was actually occurring live on Twitter, the bad joker tried to claim some honor among thieves and questioned why he would ever turn himself in.
Another Twitter user TaBarius then popped up online and posted a picture of a girl who looked like the poor individual covered in vomit.
This girl however was dressed and asleep, albeit curled up in a fetal position.
Next tweet: This tweet sent by another individual seemed to show the same girl now dressed in new clothes – albeit with a creepy message
Taking to Twitter, Tabarius said ‘I changed her clothes…shes sleeping piecefully (sic) for now..’
After that around 3.26 am, his tweets became ominous and as he claimed the girl was trapped in the trunk of his car and asked his Twitter followers to retweet if he should let her live and favorite for him to kill.
However, it seems that the entire episode was a very bad joke played out online by Tabarius and RichlonelyJuan – one that spiraled out of control.
Taking to social media during the day on January 1 to claim that he had found the picture online and that the entire episode was a joke – RichlonelyJuan still had to defend himself from those who did not find the situation amusing.
Horrifying: This message seemed to suggest that TaBarius wanted his Twitter followers to vote for the girls life
One woman fired back at him to remind him of the case of Justine Sacco, who was fired from her job last month for making an inappropriate joke about HIV and her race before she boarded a flight to South Africa.
Another hoped that his bad-taste sense of humor would follow him in his professional life.
According to Buzzfeed, Dana Pierce, a public information officer for Cobb County said the police department did not have the names of the men who posted the photographs.
‘How are we going to find them?’ asked Pierce. ‘We could find their IP addresses, but we’re not going to do that on New Years Day… They [the detectives] will probably really sink their teeth into the case tomorrow.’
No laughing matter: One woman fired back at him to remind him of the case of Justine Sacco, who was fired from her job for making an inappropriate joke about HIV and her race in South Africa
Anger: This Twitter user engaged in animated conversation with RichlonelyJuan to tell him his joke was vile and that she hope future employers see this
While saying they had been contacted by a member of the public who assured them there was no truth behind the grim picture, Pierce said that police would continue to investigate.
‘The alleged incident that has gone viral is not a crime. We need a lot more evidence to prove that this happened.’
They constantly pat themselves on the back and brag that they are the party of responsibility and Christian morality. But I’m getting to the point where writing about another Republican charged with rape, is becoming the norm.
Robert Kerns, former chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Committee in Pennsylvania, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with 19 criminal counts, including rape of an unconscious victim, rape of a substantially impaired person, sexual assault, aggravated assault without consent, aggravated assault of a person unaware penetration was occurring, and 8 other forms of assault.
He also faces charges of possession of an instrument of crime with intent, possession of a controlled substance, and tampering with evidence. According to the Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman, a grand jury discovered that Kerns had “delivered a controlled substance and sexually assaulted a woman in multiple locations.”
Authorities said that Kerns had drugged the woman by spiking her drink with Ambien, a drug used to treat insomnia, during a Republican Party dinner. He then allegedly raped her multiple times when she lost consciousness.
Responding to the recent Nuclear Option used by Democrats to put a stop the some of the Republicans’ record breaking filibuster marathon, Rush Limbaugh resorted to what he knows best in attempting to explain the process to his audience. Limbaugh’s way of explaining the rules change to his low information listeners, was to compare the change to raping women.
Let’s forget the Senate for a minute. Let’s say, let’s take 10 people in a room and they’re a group. And the room is made up of six men and four women. OK? The group has a rule that the men cannot rape the women. The group also has a rule that says any rule that will be changed must require six votes, of the 10, to change the rule. Every now and then, some lunatic in the group proposes to change the rule to allow women to be raped. But they never were able to get six votes for it. There were always the four women voting against it and they always found two guys.
Well, the guy that kept proposing that women be raped finally got tired of it, and he was in the majority and he was one that [said], ‘You know what? We’re going to change the rule. Now all we need is five.” And well, ‘you can’t do that.’ ‘Yes we are. We’re the majority. We’re changing the rule.’ And then they vote. Can the women be raped? Well, all it would take then is half of the room. You can change the rule to say three. You can change the rule to say three people want it, it’s going to happen. There’s no rule. When the majority can change the rules there aren’t any.
He couldn’t tell then the truth, so he uses language his listeners are sure to understand.
A former middle school principal in North Carolina is accused of sexually assaulting a student while the boy’s unsuspecting parent was outside the room.
David Ellis Edwards, 49, was arrested Friday and charged with second-degree forcible sex offense, sexual acts with a student, taking indecent liberties with a minor and crimes against nature, WTVD reported.
Deputies say that between 2009 and 2011, Edwards molested at least three boys between the ages of 11 and 14. At least one of the incidents allegedly occurred in Edward’s office while the victim’s parent sat in a nearby waiting area.
Edwards resigned from his position at Douglas Byrd Middle School, where he had been principal since 2010, in August, WNCN reported. Before that, he was principal of Ramsey Street Alternative School. Officials believe that all of the sexual assaults took place on the campuses of these two schools.
A new Pentagon report shows that most of the sexual assault in the military are against men.
In its latest report on sexual assault, the Pentagon estimated that 26,000 service members experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012, up from 19,000 in 2010. Of those cases, the Pentagon says, 53 percent involved attacks on men, mostly by other men.
“It’s easy for some people to single out women and say: ‘There’s a small percentage of the force having this problem,’ ” said First Lt. Adam Cohen, who said he was raped by a superior officer. “No one wants to admit this problem affects everyone. Both genders, of all ranks. It’s a cultural problem.”
Though women, who represent about 15 percent of the force, are significantly more likely to be sexually assaulted in the military than men, experts say assaults against men have been vastly underreported. For that reason, the majority of formal complaints of military sexual assault have been filed by women, even though the majority of victims are thought to be men.
“Men don’t acknowledge being victims of sexual assault,” said Dr. Carol O’Brien, the chief of post-traumatic stress disorder programs at the Bay Pines Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Florida, which has a residential treatment program for sexually abused veterans. “Men tend to feel a great deal of shame, embarrassment and fear that others will respond negatively.”
But in recent months, intense efforts on Capitol Hill to curb military sexual assault, and the release of a new documentary about male sexual assault victims in the military, “Justice Denied,” have brought new attention to male victims. Advocates say their plight shows that sexual assault has risen not because there are more women in the ranks but because sexual violence is often tolerated.
“I think telling the story about male victims is the key to changing the culture of the military,” said Anuradha K. Bhagwati, executive director of the Service Women’s Action Network, an advocacy group that has sharply criticized the Pentagon’s handling of sexual assault. “I think it places the onus on the institution when people realize it’s also men who are victims.”
On yesterday’s MHP Show, Melissa let tennis star Serena Williams have it for her seemingly admonishment of the teenaged girl who was raped by two high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio last summer.
Serena wrote in response to a query from Stephen Rodrick of Rolling Stone, who asked her about the rape. She said:
“I’m not blaming the girl, but if you’re a 16-year-old and you’re drunk like that, your parents should teach you: Don’t take drinks from other people. She’s 16, why was she that drunk where she doesn’t remember? It could have been much worse. She’s lucky. Obviously, I don’t know, maybe she wasn’t a virgin, but she shouldn’t have put herself in that position, unless they slipped her something, then that’s different.”
In Harris-Perry’s ‘Open Letter” segment of the show, she responded to Serena’s comment (see video):
And Ms Harris is absolutely correct. William’s attitude is one that many women share when they hear of rape–even I sometimes engage in such backward thinking at times.
It’s like there’s an automatic defense mechanism that pops up when you hear the word ‘rape’. A defense against the idea that people just go around committing such a horrible crime without somehow being severely provoked.
We hear about a rape and think, “What she was wearing? What was she doing there so late at night? Why didn’t she know any better? What did she expect to happen?
Not rape. No women ever expects or wants that.
Setting the responsiblity for rape on the shoulders of the victim gives the onlooker credence to believe that if they don’t behave or act like however the victim has done, they themselves will remain safe from such horrors. Of course we’re wrong.
When someone decides to harm another fellow human being, it’s their wrong decision, not the unfortunate victim’s. The most cautious, prudent and intelligent among us can still fall victim to someone’s evil intentions.
A teacher in New York stooped to disgusting lows to have sex with his 10-year-old student. According to reports, 5th grade teacher, Anthony Criscuolo deceived the parents of the 10-year-old girl, who was a student in his class.
Criscuolo told the girl’s parents that she won an academic award and was taking her to the ceremony. However, there award ceremony did not exist. On June 17, Criscuolo left his wife and took the the girl to an empty parking lot at a school in Queens, New York. He parked his truck and raped her.
The girl’s mother found sexually explicit emails sent to the student and discovered that the teacher bought the child an iPad Touch and a diamond ring. Students who were interviewed revealed that the teacher passed notes to the girl and slow danced with her during a Valentine’s Day dance.
Criscuolo, who earned $73,000 per year was arrested on June 19. He will be terminated by the school system.
Police had identified the 17-year-old as the possible culprit in the rape and murder of a 35-year-old woman near the municipality of Colquechaca.
The chief prosecutor says more than 200 furious local people seized Santos Ramos and buried him in the grave of his alleged victim.
He says residents blocked roads into the village to stop police arriving.
A reporter for a local radio station, who would only speak anonymously for fear of reprisals, told the media that Mr Ramos was tied up at the woman’s funeral.
He said mourners threw him into the open grave alongside the woman’s coffin and filled the grave with earth.
Colquechaca is a town of about 5,000 inhabitants some 207 miles ( 333 km) south-east of the Bolivian capital, La Paz.
Channel 2 Action News has learned that at least three Morehouse College athletes are charged in connection with a rape.
The three men play on the college’s basketball team. A player on the college’s football team has also been charged in a separate rape case.
Attorney Jackie Patterson told Channel 2’s Tom Jones his client, Chukwudi Ndudikwa, never touched the victim and will be vindicated.
Jones talked to students from the Morehouse campus about the allegations and they told him they are appalled that something like this could happen on campus.
“It’s sad and it really hurts me as a student and those are my Morehouse brothers,” student Dominique Merriwether said.
Two Spelman College students, in two separate incidents, accused the four of rape. The allegations stunned Spelman students.
“To know that it was somebody, a Spelman sister, somebody so close, is very frightening,” Spelman student Lorraine Levels told Jones.
In the first incident, police said Morehouse basketball players Malcolm Frank and Shukwudi Ndudikwa raped an 18-year-old female student on campus in the East Suites in March.
Tevin Mgbo faces kidnapping, reckless conduct and sodomy in the attack.
“My client never touched the alleged victim,” Patterson told Jones Wednesday. She said the alleged victim was drunk and high the night of the alleged attack.
“This was a case where a young lady used very bad judgment by being high on Molly, which is a form of powdered Ecstasy,” Patterson said.
Police believe someone placed the drug in the student’s drink.
In the second incident, also in March, the female student complained Lucien Kidd, a Morehouse football player, raped her off campus, and then is accused of saying, “Did I lose a friend?”
Levels told Jones she is proud the students didn’t let the athlete’s popularity silence them.
A protest against Reebok for not firing rapper Rick Ross over sexist and violent lyrics outside the Reebok Flagship Store In New York on April 4, 2013.
In the song “U.O.E.N.O,” Ross raps: “Put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it. I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it.”
The drug mentioned in Ross’ song is “molly,” which is a slang term for a powerful form of the psychoactive drug MDMA, commonly called ecstasy.
His lyrics sparked outrage from fans and activist groups.
Reebok released a statement on Thursday announcing it had severed ties with Ross.
“Reebok holds our partners to a high standard, and we expect them to live up to the values of our brand,” the statement read. “Unfortunately, Rick Ross has failed to do so. While we do not believe that Rick Ross condones sexual assault, we are very disappointed he has yet to display an understanding of the seriousness of this issue or an appropriate level of remorse. At this time, it is in everyone’s best interest for Reebok to end its partnership with Mr. Ross.”
Ross took to Twitter in early April to seemingly apologize for the lyrics he used in his song. He tweeted: “I dont condone rape. Apologies for the #lyric interpreted as rape. #BOSS”
Two hours later he attempted to apologize again: “Apologies to my many business partners, who would never promote violence against women. @ReebokClassics @ultraviolet.”
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