News, 4/21/23

[Angeline Binick]

I.     GLOBAL NEWS

II.    POLICY / LEGISLATION

III.   FORENSIC EVIDENCE

IV.   CLERGY ABUSE
V.    ARTS & CULTURE

VI.   CASE STORIES

 

 

 

 

 

GLOBAL NEWS

 

What's Changed Since #AidToo? Not Much, Say Sex Workers in Sierra Leone

https://allafrica.com/stories/202304200010.html

 

 

UK: Second woman claims she was raped by colleagues while working at CBI

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/21/second-woman-claims-she-was-raped-by-colleagues-while-working-at-cbi

 

 

UK's scandal-hit CBI hands new information to police probe

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-scandal-hit-cbi-hands-new-information-police-probe-2023-04-20/

 

 

More companies quit CBI as crisis at UK lobby group deepens

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/aviva-quits-cbi-crisis-scandal-hit-uk-lobby-group-deepens-2023-04-21/

 

 

Canada: Toronto police seek teen boy wanted in 6 sexual assaults

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-composite-sketch-boy-bicycle-sexual-assaults-1.6607608

 

 

 

 

POLICY / LEGISLATION

 

Victims raise questions after changes to Florida human trafficking bill

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/victims-raise-questions-after-changes-florida-human-trafficking-bill/DJLMULOASJBBPBOPPKGBO3D5BI/

 

 

 

 

FORENSIC EVIDENCE

 

Chief U.S. appeals court judge to be questioned in harassment case

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/chief-us-appeals-court-judge-be-questioned-harassment-case-2023-04-20/

 

 

 

 

CLERGY ABUSE

 

Canada: Cree medicine man who pleaded guilty to 12 counts of sexual assault gets new date for plea reversal hearing

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/cecil-wolfe-medicine-man-sexual-assault-expunged-1.6815916

 

 

 

 

ARTS & CULTURE

 

‘Patriarchy has no gender. It doesn’t break down like that’: film-maker Nina Menkes dissects the male gaze

New documentary uses hundreds of clips to show how even the most acclaimed classics of cinema have encouraged a culture of sexual harassment of women.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/21/patriarchy-has-no-gender-it-doesnt-break-down-like-that-film-maker-nina-menkes-dissects-the-male-gaze

 

 

 

 

CASE STORIES

 

Kevin Spacey appears remotely in UK court ahead of sex offences trial

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/kevin-spacey-appears-remotely-uk-court-ahead-sex-offences-trial-2023-04-21/

 

 

Ex-members of extremist Mormon sect plead for help to find missing children

Once children are unaccounted for, attorney Roger Hoole said, they are at risk of being trafficked – the boys for labor, the girls for underage marriage.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/21/fundamentalist-church-of-latter-day-saints-missing-children