Parents outraged after ‘revenge sex’ and ‘baby daddy’ issues appear on school assignment
FILE PHOTO ©Jon Nazca / Reuters
A sexually explicit question that appeared on a practice paper handed out to Florida high school students has caused outrage for its reference to revenge sex and use of the phrase ‘baby daddy.’
The bizarre innuendo was included in a question about blood types. “Ursula was devastated when her boyfriend broke up with her after having sex. To get revenge, she had sex with his best friend the next day.”
“Ursula had a beautiful baby girl nine months later. Ursula has type O blood, her ex-boyfriend is type AB blood, and his best friend is type A blood. If her baby daddy is her ex-boyfriend, what could her baby’s possible blood type(s) NOT be?” the question stated.
Omar Austin, whose daughter is in eleventh grade at Westside High School in Jacksonville, highlighted the anatomy assignment in a Facebook video. He reads out the question before proclaiming: “What the heck?
“This is just sad and a disgrace to our education system and probably one of the most biased pieces of information I have ever read. Where the hell are our school’s going?”
Austin told First Coast News that he first thought it was a joke when his daughter read him the question. “The fact that she’s having sex with one guy and to get revenge on this guy she has sex with his best friend the next day? I mean, that’s just not something that I want to teach any student.”
But apparently someone does! Someone in district office!
The question appeared on a district generated worksheet that was printed by a teacher at the school, the principal of the school told Austin.
Duval County Public Schools admitted in a statement that the question was “highly inappropriate and was not part of a district assessment.” It thanked Austin for highlighting the issue with the school and confirmed an immediate review of the situation had begun.
“Appropriate and corrective action will be taken,” the statement added, encouraging parents with any similar concerns about their child’s school experience to make contact
A spokesperson for Duval County Schools said that, as far as they knew, the paper with the offending question was not distributed by any other schools.
Later, DCPS issued the following statement: "Our review of the matter indicates the question used in the anatomy assignment was created by another teacher in the district. It was then shared on a digital platform that is used by our teachers. This platform is a valuable tool for teachers to exchange classroom resources. While this was not a district created item, we recognize that this falls well short of our standard of providing instructional excellence for every student, every day and we would like to apologize to the students and their families."
Man charged after 13 year old gives birth to his child
I wonder how many perverts escape detection because the little girls they impregnate were able to get abortions without their parent's consent?
By MetroNews Staff in News WVRJA
BECKLEY, W.Va. — Raleigh County authorities have charged a man with the sexual assault of two young girls. Travis Wayne Humphrey of Dorothy, W.Va. was arrested this week and charged with first degree sexual assault and first degree sexual abuse.
Court documents show Humphrey was under investigation for child pornography when it was learned he had a sexual relationship with a 13 year old girl. The girl, according to court records gave birth to a child in 2016 and a DNA test proved Humphrey to be the father.
The teenage victim tells police the only time there could have been an encounter between Humphrey and her was when she, and several other children accompanied Humphrey on an overnight trip to a hunting cabin near his home in Raleigh County. The victim claims Humphrey gave them alcohol and she passed out, but has no recollection of what happened during the night.
A second teenager backed up the story to investigators and claimed she was there on the same night and awoke from being passed out to find Humphrey on top of her and engaged in sexual activity.
Humphrey is jailed in lieu of $150,000.
Raleigh County man jailed on sex charges
involving 7 y/o child
WVRJA, By MetroNews Staff
BECKLEY, W.Va. — A Raleigh County man faces charges of sexual abuse involving a seven year old girl.
William Joseph Harvey of Bolt, W.Va. was arrested this week on charges of first degree sexual abuse for an incident from December of last year. The victim tells police Harvey would touch her in inappropriate laces and often showed her pictures of other children engaged in inappropriate activity.
He’s lodged in the Southern Regional Jail in lieu of $100,000 bond.
Ashley Judd sues Harvey Weinstein for
sexual harassment, defamation
While the action asks for damages to be determined, Judd says she would donate any money to charity
The Associated Press 
Ashley Judd speaks onstage on April 28 during the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
(Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)
In the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Judd accuses Weinstein of defamation, sexual harassment and violating California's unfair competition law. Judd was in the first group of women who came forward last fall about Weinstein's sexual misconduct, putting her at the forefront of the #MeToo movement.
Weinstein's company at the time, Miramax, then held the rights to Lord of the Rings.
About a year earlier at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, Weinstein — in what was supposed to be a business breakfast meeting — appeared in a bathrobe, asked Judd to watch him shower and to let him massage her, the suit alleges. The allegations echo those Judd made in The New York Times in October.
"Cornered, and desperate to escape without angering a man who had the ability to end her budding career, Ms. Judd engaged in a mock bargain with Weinstein, suggesting that she would consider letting him touch her only if she won an Academy Award in one of his films," the lawsuits says. "Weinstein responded: 'When you get nominated.' Ms. Judd held firm, saying, 'No, when I win.' And then she fled the scene."
Jackson disclosed Weinstein warning
The suit says Weinstein lorded the Oscar statement over Judd for years afterward when he saw her in public.
Judd, 50, had no idea why she wasn't cast in the Lord of the Rings films until Jackson came forward last year, the lawsuit says.
Weinstein has denied trying to derail Judd's career, and said he had no role in Jackson's casting. An email to his attorney Ben Brafman was not immediately returned.
The lawsuit goes beyond many sexual harassment suits by invoking unfair competition laws against fraudulent business practices in an attempt to "shine a light on the broader economic damages caused when individuals in positions of authority attempt to punish those who have resisted their improper advances," Judd's attorney Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. said in a statement.Jackson said Weinstein also warned him against casting Mira Sorvino, who has also alleged she is among Weinstein's victims. Jackson apologized for playing any unwitting role in the damage done to the women's careers, and the lawsuit is quick to absolve him of any wrongdoing.
The lawsuit seeks injunctions against Weinstein engaging in unfair competition and any further retaliation against Judd. It asks for damages to be determined at trial, but a statement from her attorneys said any money she is awarded will be donated to a charity that combats sexual harassment and discrimination.
The suit is among many pending against Weinstein.
Yale Student Found Not Guilty of Rape
in 'Worst Nightmare' Trial
Saifullah Khan, outside court during his trial for rape of a fellow Yale student. A jury found him not guilty on all counts. Credit Jessica Hill for The New York Times
By Vivian Wang and Cheryl P. Weinstock
Over several grueling days on the witness stand in a New Haven courtroom, the woman described what she said was her rape by the accused student, Saifullah Khan, 25, on Halloween night 2015. The testimony, in open court, offered a glimpse into the kinds of encounters that are more often described behind closed doors, to university panels or among friends.
Mr. Khan’s lawyers worked relentlessly to discredit the account of the woman, who was not identified by name in the arrest warrant application. They asked repeatedly how much she had to drink, and how she could claim not to remember certain details, such as how she arrived back at her dorm room, but remembered others, such as the alleged assault itself. They parsed her text messages with Mr. Khan, asking if she had not been flirting with him in the days before the incident. They showed off her Halloween costume, a black cat outfit, and asked her why she had not chosen a more modest one, such as “Cinderella in a long flowing gown.”
I can't believe the judge allowed such insulting and obnoxious questioning!
Laura Palumbo, a spokeswoman for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, called the defense’s line of questioning “all victims’ worst fears in coming forward.”
“It is very intentionally working to trigger victim-blaming and stereotypes and misconceptions about sexual assault,” she said. “You must be interested in sexual behavior just based on how you’re dressed and drinking.”
That the trial was happening at all was already noteworthy. Statistics on how many college rape cases go to trial are elusive, but experts agree that the number is exceedingly low; the Department of Justice estimates that between 4 percent and 20 percent of female college students who are raped report the attack to law enforcement.
But unfolding as it did in the wake of the #MeToo movement and the fierce, unresolved debate over whether campus rape cases are best handled by universities or law enforcement, Mr. Khan’s trial also took on political significance, with defense lawyers accusing Yale of making Mr. Khan a scapegoat for its own poor handling of previous sexual assault claims. Representatives from Families Advocating for Campus Equality, a group that has criticized university hearing processes as skewed in favor of accusers, attended the trial in support of Mr. Khan.
In an interview after the verdict, Norman Pattis, a lawyer for Mr. Khan, said he had tried to challenge “the outer limits of the #MeToo movement,” which he called “a form of mass hysteria.”
“Sex happens, especially on college campuses,” he said.
After a two-week trial, the six-member jury deliberated for about three hours before returning a verdict. In an interview afterward, a juror, Diane Urbano, said the #MeToo movement had not figured in the panel’s decision.
“It was not part of the case,” she said. “We put it aside.”
Instead, she said, they considered the evidence. “There was sufficient doubt on every charge,” she continued. “So we came to the verdict we did.”
Maura Crossin, executive director of the Victim Rights Center of Connecticut, which, along with the state’s attorney’s office, represented the complainant, declined to comment. A Yale spokesman also declined to comment.
In a statement after the verdict, Mr. Pattis called on Yale to reinstate Mr. Khan, accusing the university of having rushed to judgment in his suspension. Mr. Khan, a native of Afghanistan, never finished college and has been living with family.
From the start, the case had promised to be difficult to try. The encounter had unfolded on a raucous, alcohol-fueled evening, across several off-campus and on-campus settings. Text messages between the complainant and Mr. Khan were interspersed with emojis and specific references to Yale’s campus culture, which defense lawyers promoted as proof of flirtation; the complainant said they meant nothing.
On the night of the alleged assault, the complainant said, she attended an off-campus party with her friends, where she had several drinks — the first time she had ever been drunk, she said.
At a performance by the student orchestra after the party, she was so intoxicated that she lost her friends. She found herself instead with Mr. Khan, an acquaintance who had been pursuing her, who sat with her as she threw up several times and accompanied her back to her room afterward.
Mr. Pattis showed the jury security camera footage of the two walking back to her dorm, in which the complainant appeared to be leaning on Mr. Khan, her leg dragging slightly behind her.
“Don’t you look like two lovers?” Mr. Pattis asked the woman on the stand.
“No,” she replied.
In the middle of the night, the complainant said, she woke up to find Mr. Khan on top of her, and she tried to push him off. In the morning, she was naked, even though she said she remembered lying down fully clothed. She saw used condoms on the floor, and bruising on her legs.
She visited Yale’s sexual harassment and assault resource center on Nov. 2, where an administrator called the police. Mr. Khan was suspended from Yale on Nov. 9, and officers arrested him on Nov. 12.
Mr. Khan, who testified in his own defense, offered a vastly different account of the night, one in which the complainant invited him to her room and took off her own clothes. Her apparent anger the next morning, he said, came as a shock.
“This was a different demeanor,” Mr. Khan said.
Mr. Pattis said there were glaring inconsistencies in the complainant’s story, and that she remembered only the details that bolstered her allegations.
“What went on in the room that night made everyone uncomfortable, but it wasn’t a crime,” Mr. Pattis said after the verdict.
The prosecutor, Michael Pepper, said the gaps in the alleged victim’s memory were proof that she had not made up the assault.
“If she wanted to do that so bad, put a nail in the coffin, wouldn’t she have given you a more coherent story?” he asked the jury.
The complainant insisted the same. She rejected Mr. Pattis’s question of whether she planned to file a civil suit against Mr. Khan or Yale.
“I have nothing to gain by this,” she replied. “It’s been difficult reliving it the last three days.”
All I can say about this is that lawyers will stand before a Judge in a much Higher Court one day, and I, for one, am looking forward to it.
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