World champion Terin Humphrey alleges Larry Nassar sexually abused her
Former Olympic medalist files to join Nassar survivor's
suit against USA Gymnastics
Olympic silver medalist Terin Humphrey rides in a parade through Odessa, Mo., Friday, Aug. 27, 2004. Humphrey, from nearby Bates, Mo., won a silver medal on the uneven bars, and the U.S. women’s team won a silver medal. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, Fred Blocher)
By SCOTT M. REID | Orange County Register
Terin Humphrey was just 15 when she arrived at a competition in Virginia in July 2002. She was on the brink of a U.S. national team career that would make her a gymnastics world champion and she was fighting major injuries in both hips that continue to hound her to this day.
During a pre-competition training session, Humphrey, in severe pain in both hips, agreed to see Larry Nassar, the longtime U.S. Olympic and USA Gymnastics national team physician, for medical treatment.
“I don’t even remember him stretching me,” Humphrey recalled. “I just remember him saying, ‘Alright, here get on the table,’ and then that was it.”
Humphrey, a two-time Olympic silver medalist, in an exclusive interview with the Southern California News Group, alleges that Nassar sexually assaulted her during the session in Virginia and again the following day under the guise of medical treatment. Humphrey filed to register as a Nassar survivor Thursday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Indiana.
“I just remember being super uncomfortable,” Humphrey said. She recalled thinking during the incident, “This is so weird. How is this helping?”
It was one of several questions about those two days with Nassar that Humphrey kept buried for 17 years.
While Humphrey, later an NCAA champion at Alabama, served as an athlete representative for USA Gymnastics between 2009 and 2019 and member of the Olympic and World Championships teams selection committee and continued to have an uneasy feeling around Nassar, she did not come to terms with her sexual assault until memories of the abuse were triggered by treatment for her pregnancy last year, according to Humphrey and a sworn statement under penalty of perjury by psychiatrist who examined her earlier this month. Humphrey said she was unable to even tell her husband, Uriah Holcomb, about the abuse until last month.
“The more I went to the doctors (for her pregnancy), the more I was having issues” with recollections of Nassar, Humphrey said. “The more trouble I had, the more I felt like my puzzle pieces were coming together and I just remember when I had my pelvic exams I remember seeing Larry.
“I had the worst pregnancy ever.”
Humphrey was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder with delayed expression and major depressive disorder by Dr. Steven A. Elig, who conducted a 4 hour, 15 minute psychiatric examination of Humphrey on July 18, according to a sworn affidavit by Elig, provided to SCNG.
“It is my opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty that Ms. Humphrey meets psychiatric criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with delayed expression, as a direct result of her experience of child sexual abuse by Dr. Larry Nassar,” Elig wrote in the affidavit submitted with Humphrey’s filing to register as a Nassar survivor.
There is much more to this story at The OCRegister.
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Paris prosecutors push to re-open rape case against film star Gerard Depardieu
A rape probe against French movie star Gerard Depardieu collapsed in 2019 due to lack of evidence. His accuser, who claims she was assaulted and raped in Depardieu’s home, now wants the investigation reopened.
The woman’s lawyers have now relaunched their case as a civil one, a move that forces authorities to reinvestigate, according to French media. AFP reported the news on Saturday.
Depardieu, a prolific actor with more than 170 film credits, has not yet commented on the case.
Aside from the rape case, Depardieu has grabbed headlines in recent years for criticizing his native land. He lamented France’s apparent transformation into a “Disneyland for foreigners” in 2017, and called the country a “sad” place in 2013. That same year, he was granted citizenship in Russia, where he enjoys huge popularity. Critics accused him of taking the passport to dodge his taxes, but Depardieu claimed instead to love Russia’s people and culture.
'Why would you come here to masturbate?' Police footage shows Blue Jay's catcher after he was 'caught with pants down in parking lot'
New footage has revealed that McGuire was surprised to be interrupted by police while he was in his vehicle, explaining to him that they had been alerted by people who had reported seeing him carrying out a depraved act half-naked in the lot.
In the recording obtained by TMZ, which is partly audio-only due to a technical malfunction, McGuire can be heard admitting that he had chosen "a dumb place to be hanging out" as an officer asked: "Why would you come to a parking lot just to masturbate?"
The 25-year-old gingerly confessed: "I just...I don't know. That wasn't the reason why I decided to park. I've realized that I made a mistake having my pants down and doing what I was doing.
"If there's any way I can really learn from it, hopefully no-one's harmed. I really am apologetic and I know I shouldn't have been doing this."
The Major League Baseball star can then be seen with his hands cuffed behind him as he chats to an officer from the back of a police car.
"Is it for sure a going-to-court kind of thing?" he enquired, hinting at the agreement he reached with authorities earlier this month when his charge was reduced to a second-degree misdemeanor of disorderly conduct.
"The simple fact is that it's a misdemeanor because you're in public," explained the officer. "It's just whether or not you go down to jail and get booked in for a misdemanor."
A spokesperson for the State Attorney's Office in Pinellas County told TMZ that McGuire received a punishment of fines and court costs.
And then he has to face his team!!!!
South Korea, New Zealand spar over diplomat in sex harassment case
By Elizabeth Shim
South Korea and New Zealand are in discussion over the case of a South Korean diplomat accused of sexual misconduct toward a staff member at the South Korean Embassy in New Zealand in 2017, according to local press reports Monday. File Photo by Yonhap
Aug. 3 (UPI) -- South Korea and New Zealand are at odds over the case of a South Korean diplomat who has been accused of groping a New Zealand staff member at Seoul's Embassy in Wellington.
The New Zealand government has called on South Korea to waive the man's diplomatic immunity, but Seoul has agreed to cooperate on the grounds his immunity not be waived, South Korean news service News 1 reported.
South Korea's foreign ministry told reporters on Monday the two countries have been in communication over the case. Seoul will work with the New Zealand government if it requests investigation under the Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters and extradition.
New Zealand has urged Seoul to do more, however.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has "expressed her disappointment that the Korean Government was unable to waive immunity to allow aspects of the police investigation into this matter to proceed," the prime minister's office said, according to the New Zealand Herald on Sunday.
Ardern recently conveyed her opinions in a phone call with President Moon Jae-in.
The diplomat, a former deputy ambassador to New Zealand, has been charged with three counts of sexual misconduct that took place in 2017. The plaintiff in the case, a male employee at the embassy, is currently receiving support from MOSAIC, an advocacy group for male sex abuse survivors, according to the report.
South Korea may have been irritated by New Zealand's decision to go public with the case, which was addressed with disciplinary measures taken in 2018, according to local press reports. The foreign ministry said it had summoned New Zealand's Ambassador to Seoul Philip Turner on Monday, and conveyed its opinion New Zealand's decision to disclose the case to reporters is an "unprecedented" move, according to South Korean news service Newsis.
The two countries have been in communication over the case but Seoul continued to employ the accused, currently stationed in the Philippines, according to Yonhap news agency.
A court in Wellington issued a warrant for the man's arrest in February.
Investigation launched into claims that employees of ex-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s media group took part in 2014 gang rape
By Jonny Tickle
Russia’s Investigative Committee has begun to look into allegations that Sergei Prostakov, the former chief editor of opposition website MBK Media, and photographer Andrey Zolotov participated in the gang rape of a girl in 2014.
On July 13, Victoria Kuzmenko, an employee at Russian news outlet Lenta.ru, wrote a tweet in which she claimed that Zolotov was involved in a rape at a house party, while Prostakov watched and masturbated. She later clarified she did not witness the incident herself. Following the accusations, both Prostakov and Zolotov resigned from their posts at MBK Media, which is owned by disgraced 1990s oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Responding to the allegations, Prostakov claimed he did not remember what happened, having been intoxicated, but apologized “to all the women whom [he] offended.” Meanwhile, Zolotov explained that there had been “group sex” at the party, but he had not participated.
Prostakov’s ex-girlfriend also accused him of rape, in a long Twitter thread about their allegedly abusive relationship.
The claims against the two MBK Media employees were part of a series of tweets in mid-July, accusing multiple men of various acts of sexual harassment and assault. Also named were Sberbank employees Ruslan Gafarov, who resigned, and Sergey Minenko, who was suspended pending investigation.
The accusations against Prostakov and Zolotov are the latest in a recent flurry of allegations of sexual misconduct against members of Russia’s opposition-leaning media. Meduza’s Editor-in-Chief Ivan Kolpakov was accused of groping a colleague’s wife at a party in 2018. He resigned, but quickly returned. Earlier this year, Ekho Moskvy boss Aleksey Venediktov was the subject of a long-form piece on BBC Russia accusing him of sexual misconduct. He denied the allegations, but apologized.
So, I guess you have to admire Russians who apologize for what they deny.
Mariah Carey’s sister is suing their mother for
‘sexually abusing her as a child in satanic rituals’
Simon Boyle
MARIAH Carey’s troubled sister is suing their mother for sexually abusing her as a child.
Alison Carey accused mum Patricia of forcing her to perform sex acts on strangers when she was ten.
Mariah Carey's mum Patricia, right, is being sued for alleged child sexual abuse
Mariah's estranged sister, Alison Carey, 57, is suing their mother Credit: Jae Donnelly - The Sun
She alleges she also had to watch other children being abused “during middle-of-the-night satanic worship meetings that included ritual sacrifices”.
As a result, Alison, now 57, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, according to court papers filed in New York.
Alison, who is estranged from her superstar sister, 50, once worked as a prostitute and is HIV positive.
Friends insist she is not after Mariah’s fortune — she has lost all her teeth and wants to pay to get them repaired.
Alison’s lawsuit, filed at the State of New York Supreme Court, says: “Defendant, who is Plaintiff's mother, allowed and encouraged other male persons whose identities are at present unknown to engage in sexual acts as defined in New York Penal Law, specifically 130.52 (forcible touching), and 130.65 (sexual assault in the first degree), while Plaintiff was approximately 10 years of age.
Alison and Mariah
“As a result of the above Plaintiff has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and major depression, leading her to misuse both legal and illegal drugs in an attempt to suppress the horrific memories, and to undergo extensive professional counselling.
“Plaintiff now demands compensatory money damages for immense psychological and physical damage, mental pain and anguish and intentional infliction of severe emotion distress.”
Good grief, Mariah, your sister needs help and, with all your money, she has to sue to get enough to fix her teeth? You would rather see your family dragged through the mud in public than pay for her teeth, and maybe some seriously needed counselling? I don't understand!
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