Free Republic

Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly voted for — and Governor Ralph Northam signed — a law allowing schools to refrain from reporting instances of sexual battery, stalking, violation of a protective order, and violent threats occurring on school property in 2020. § 22.1-279.3:1 of Virginia code had required that these, among a number of other major crimes, be reported to law enforcement if they occurred on campus. Democrats insisted that misdemeanors be extirpated from reporting requirements in House Bill 257, replacing the word “criminal” with “felony” in the code. In a stunning exchange between legislators in the House of...

A Loudoun County father smeared as a domestic terrorist by a leftist school board association says his school district covered up his daughter’s rape by a “gender-fluid” boy in a school bathroom, The Daily Wire reported. Scott Smith, a small business owner in Virginia, was smeared by the National School Boards Association last month in its letter begging President Joe Biden and his administration to use domestic terrorism laws to punish parents who were fed up with the radical indoctrination of their children in schools. In the letter, the NSBA used Smith’s viral June 22 arrest at a Loudoun County...

Did the Loudoun County school board try to hush up a sexual assault and allow the victim’s father to be cast as a sort of domestic terrorist? The Daily Wire reported last night on this horrifying story from Virginia, in which a father’s angry criticism of the school board went viral, but for all the wrong reasons. At the heart of Scott Smith’s rage was a grotesque sexual assault on his daughter, facilitated at least in part because of politically correct bathroom access: On June 22, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting, a meeting...

Scott Smith was arrested on June 22 at a school board meeting that was deemed an “unlawful assembly” after attendees voiced opposition to a proposed policy expanding special protections to transgender students. Smith was dragged from the event in handcuffs, his pants falling down, his lip bleeding. He was charged later with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. What few knew until now is that Smith attended the June 22 hearing to confront school board members over his daughter’s alleged rape in a school bathroom by a "gender-fluid" boy. Smith learned later that his daughter’s alleged assailant reportedly assaulted a second...

Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students. What people did not know is that, weeks prior, Smith says, a boy wearing a skirt, entered a girls’ bathroom at nearby Stone Bridge High School, where he sexually assaulted Smith’s ninth-grade daughter. Scott’s attorney, Elizabeth Lancaster told The Daily Wire that a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one count of forcible fellatio, related to an incident that day...

According to The Associated Press, the Wildwood Republican died Sunday night after a long bout with cancer, Perry Akin, the former lawmaker’s son, said in a statement. “He was a devoted Christian, a great father and a friend to many,” the statement read, according to the news agency. “We cherish many fond memories from him driving the tractor at our annual hayride, to his riveting delivery of the freedom story at Fourth of July parties dressed in the full uniform of a colonial minuteman. The family is thankful for his legacy: a man with a servant’s heart who stood for...

Bill Cosby he believes disgraced singer R Kelly was 'railroaded' during his sex trafficking trial, according to his rep. The comedian blamed racism for Kelly's conviction on several counts on Monday, and said any appeal the singer made would likely be successful. In an interview with the New York Post, Cosby's spokesman Andrew Wyatt said the 84-year-old felt Kelly 'got railroaded' and 'wasn't going to catch a break' in his month-long trial. 'The deck was stacked against Robert,' Wyatt told the paper, using Kelly's first name. The Cosby rep also criticised lawyer Gloria Allred who represented victims in both Kelly...

During the Obama administration, Catherine Lhamon worked in the Department of Education as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights. She was known for her hyper-aggressive approach to Title IX. Now she has been nominated by President Biden for her old position. Lhamon’s nomination has stirred up vehement opposition. Her fate now rests in the hands of Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, after her nomination deadlocked before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Schumer can file a discharge petition to bring her nomination to the floor, but that would consume valuable time that Senate Democrats might need for other items....

A charity named after Winston Churchill has provoked fury by rebranding itself amid concerns over his views on race. The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust has removed pictures of the wartime leader from its website and is changing its name to the Churchill Fellowship. Volunteers at the trust said it was 'rewriting history'. One told The Sun: 'He was voted, by the people, as the Greatest Briton in a BBC poll in 2002 but is now erased from his own charity by the woke brigade. ... ...Controversies surrounding his rule include whether he could have acted more decisively to prevent the...

The convicted murderer who sexually assaulted a Bronx nurse and bludgeoned her to death some 40 years ago is up for parole in September — but the victim’s family is fighting his potential release, saying it “would be a sin.” “It’s [been] 39 years and every day is a nightmare,” Phyllis Meliota, 87, said of her daughter Barbara Meliota’s murder at the hands of maintenance worker Anthony Doyle in 1982. “You can never forgive somebody that does an evil thing like that.” On a spring morning that May, 24-year-old Barbara had arrived for her 7 a.m. shift at Montefiore Hospital...

Prominent footballer and Black Lives Matter activist Benjamin Mendy has been charged with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.The Manchester City star is accused of rape and sexual assault by three women, according to the BBC, including a minor. The alleged attacks took place between October 2020 and August 2021. The BBC reports that Mendy "showed no emotion" following an appearance at Cheshire Magistrates Court in which he confirmed his name, address, and date of birth. He is set to appear at Chester Crown Court on September 10.

More than 900 child sex abuse claims were filed against the Buffalo Diocese in federal bankruptcy court by Saturday, the deadline for abuse victims to come forward if they want part of a potential settlement that could cost the diocese tens of millions of dollars. The number of claims was double the largest number ever filed in the more than 20 prior diocese bankruptcies in the U.S. since 2004. “The total count right now is 924,” said Ilan D. Scharf, attorney for the committee of unsecured creditors in the diocese bankruptcy case. “There are sometimes duplicate claims or amended claims...

THE head of one of Scotland’s biggest rape crisis centres has suggested “bigoted” rape survivors should be re-educated about transgender rights as part of recovering from their trauma. Mridul Wadhwa, a transgender woman, said people would not truly recover unless they addressed their “unacceptable beliefs” because “therapy is political”. She said: “We will work with you... but please expect to be challenged on your prejudices." The comments imply rape survivors may be treated differently according to their political views. One expert said “pushing a political view onto a woman at a time of profound trauma and crisis” would be “inappropriate,...

Comedian Horatio Sanz allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted an underage superfan at a "Saturday Night Live" party — as cast members looked the other way, the woman claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday. The unnamed Pennsylvania teen, who was 17 at the time, was running an "SNL" fan site in May 2002 when Sanz allegedly took her on a limo ride then "digitally penetrated her genitals" at a post-show bash, according to the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court. The girl first met Sanz at age 15 — when he was 31 years old — in 2000 after he invited...

A Washington State inmate was sentenced to an additional 24 years for murdering his cellmate - a convicted child rapist who had abused his minor sister. Shane Goldsby, 26, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges, and was sentenced last week for beating his cellmate Robert Munger, 70, to death in June 2020. Munger was serving a 43-year prison sentence at the Airway Heights Correctional facility on multiple child molestation and child pornography charges, when Goldsby was assigned to his cell. Goldsby said that he killed Munger after discovering his younger sister, who is still a minor, was one of Munger's...

Transgender YouTuber Chris Chan, 39, was identified as female by police and will be housed with women despite being biologically male, after she was arrested for raping her mother. The vlogger and artist, who goes by Christine Weston Chandler, was arrested after leaked phone calls allegedly revealed her admitting to raping her mother, 79, who suffers from dementia. Chandler is being held in Central Virginia Regional Jail alongside 59 other detainees. She was jailed without bail on suspicion of incest, a felony punishable by up to 12 years in prison. Chandler is biologically male but came out as a transgender...

Multiple Democrats in the New York state legislature are renewing their calls for Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to resign or be impeachment after an investigation found he sexually harassed several women, some of whom worked in his office, and violated other state and federal laws. New York Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D), in a statement following the release of the investigation's findings, called Cuomo's behavior "unacceptable" and said he "can no longer serve as Governor." She said he should resign "for the good of the state."

Link only: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2021/08/03/andrew-cuomo-resign-sexual-assault-investigation/4808633001/

‘This is the first cardinal in the United States ever charged criminally for a sexual offense against a minor,’ stated the abuse victim’s attorney. Ex-cardinal and defrocked priest Theodore McCarrick has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenager in the 1970’s and will now appear in criminal court August 26 to answer the three counts of indecent assault and battery — a fate he had so far avoided.

Judge Wyatt McKay sentenced him to life plus 31 years in prison, without parole. The Republican-run Ohio General Assembly and Republican Governor Mike DeWine just gave Larosa a chance for parole. What a pack of useful idiots. No, I do not know Mrs. Belcastro. I mean, I grew up around women who were like her. But no, her grandson Brian Kirk contacted me because he is trying to shine some light on how awful this new law is. The sentencing of Larosa in October 2018 gave the family some closure. The Ohio Republican Party just opened that door again.