Showing posts with label sexual assault. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexual assault. Show all posts

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Arguments to dismiss abuse allegation due to less-than-perfect pass leads to slippery slope

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn can again take the to the sea, air or roads and travel on his merry way, while the woman who accused him of a sexual attack in a New York City hotel room earlier this year is hunkering down against heavy rebuke.

Image courtesy of
The Independent online.
Nafissatou Diallo alleges that Strauss-Kahn forced her to perform oral sex on him at a hotel in which she was employed as a maid. The Guinea native has come under attack after initially being painted by much of the media as a pious woman. As the flames of the scandal grew, reports in various media outlets suggested Diallo had been previously paid for sex, was affiliated with a pimp and more.
Since this information was reported, even very forward-thinking women I work and socialize with have asserted that if Diallo was paid for sex at any time, even though it was never reported that she solicited or was paid for sex by Strauss-Kahn, her claims should be dismissed.

Read more at The Washington Times Communities Online.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Instituting female-only subway cars to prevent sexual assault misses issue entirely

Recently South Korean officials moved to reinstitute female-only subway cars in Seoul, citing a desire to stem sexual assaults and harassment on mass transit lines.

While we can chide the move as an evasive tactic around dealing with the real issue of women’s safety in South Korea, we should also consider the fact that rape and sexual assault on our own Metro rails increased in 2010 by more than 350 percent from the “average year.”

Read the full story at The Washington Times Communities.