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The CBS board of directors is expected to meet today and discuss the sex crimes said to have been committed by network CEO Les Moonves.

Some board directors have discussed whether Moonves should step aside. It’s interesting that there is any debate considering the egregious charges being made.

Moonves isn’t alone at CBS. Sex crime charges have been leveled at “60 Minutes” executive producer Jeff Fager as well. Six former employees say Fager groped them.

via Les Moonves: How CBS reported on sexual misconduct allegations

Schwarzenegger film was the scene of horrible sex crime against 12 year old

Actress Eliza Dushku says she was sexually molested at age 12 by a stunt coordinator during production of the 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger film “True Lies.”

In a post on her Facebook account Saturday, Dushku also alleged that Joel Kramer, then 36, caused her to be injured on the set as payback for disclosing the alleged misconduct to a friend. Kramer denied the accusations as “lies” in trade publication interviews.

 

Dushku joins the growing ranks of those alleging sexual misconduct in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Dushku said in the post that Kramer lured her to his hotel room, put her on a bed and, approaching her naked except for a “flimsy” towel, rubbed his body over hers.

The Fresno Bee reports that Sue Booth-Forbes told Variety and Deadline that Dushku is “telling the truth.” The guardian said she reported what she called Kramer’s “inappropriate sexual behavior” at the time and that no action was taken by what she called “a person in authority.”

“True Lies,” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, is one of a string of Cameron hit films that include the “Titanic” and “Avatar.”

Humiliated again: Judge repudiates Sacramento County Sheriff

There will be no retrial in the case of four female Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies awarded nearly $3.6 million in May after claiming retaliation at the hands of their superiors.

Sacramento Superior Court Judge David De Alba in his 11-page order Monday affirmed jurors’ May verdict against Sacramento County, finding that Lt. Annica Hagadorn’s career path ground to a halt after she complained of discrimination to state fair housing and employment officials and that three other plaintiffs named in the lieutenant’s lawsuit also were targets of retaliation by their higher ranking officers.

“Indeed, the Court believes it would be a gross understatement … to say that Hagadorn’s career merely stalled or required some redirection,” De Alba wrote.

De Alba, in his ruling Monday, rejected the county’s request for a new trial and its arguments that Hagadorn was not a victim of discrimination or retaliation.

In recent days, Jones has had to refute accusations of unwanted advances toward a female sheriff’s deputy more than a decade ago, when Jones was a sergeant in the department’s legal affairs bureau.

Source: The Sacramento Bee 

Sheriff Scott Jones — a sex perv too? What’s next???

As if his command doesn’t have enough problems already.

Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones was accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward a subordinate, activity he denied in a sworn statement, according to newly uncovered court documents from a lawsuit against the Sheriff’s Department claiming retaliation.

Tosca Olives, at the time a 26-year-old sheriff’s deputy, said Jones, then a sergeant in legal affairs, was acting as her unofficial supervisor in the law library of the Main Jail in 2003. She said the contact started with Jones rubbing her shoulders while she took work-related phone calls.

Over two years, she said in a deposition, the touching intensified to him reaching under her shirt. Olives said they engaged in mutual kissing and she contends Jones unzipped her pants and felt between her legs.

Jones said he never had romantic or sexual interest in Olives and, except once, “never had any physical contact with her of an intimate nature.”

Source: The Sacramento Bee

Pentagon brass lied to lawmakers about military sexual assault cases

Need another reason to distrust the Pentagon brass…well here you go.

The Pentagon misled Congress with inaccurate and vague information about sexual assault cases that portrayed civilian law enforcement officials as less willing than military commanders to punish sex offenders, an Associated Press investigation found.

Local district attorneys and police forces failed to act against U.S. service members who were subsequently prosecuted in military courts for sex crimes, according to internal government records that summarized the outcomes of dozens of cases. But in a number of cases, the steps taken by civilian authorities were described incorrectly or omitted. Other case descriptions were too imprecise to be verified.

There also is nothing in the records that supports the primary reason the Pentagon told Congress about the cases in the first place: To show top military brass as hard-nosed crime fighters who insisted on taking the cases to trial.

Source: Associated Press

LA County prosecutors don’t see a problem with students in sexual assault case

Los Angeles County prosecutors declined to file charges against more than a dozen Venice High School students who were suspected of being members of a ring that allegedly sexually assaulted a pair of girls both on and off campus, it was announced Wednesday.

Greg Risling of the District Attorney’s Office said there was “insufficient evidence” to pursue the case.

A total of 15 students were implicated in the alleged sex ring. Most were arrested over the course of several days in mid-March. The suspects ranged in age from 14 to 17. The ages of the victims were not released, but police said they were in their mid-teens.

An LAUSD source said a group of male students allegedly conspired to pressure girls into having sex, threatening to ruin their reputations. The investigation began when police received information from school administrators about “a possible victim of a possible sexual assault,” according to Los Angeles Police Department Cmdr. Andy Smith said.

Prosecutors initially declined to file charges against one of the students, then opted May 8 against filing cases against the other 14 teens, Risling said.

The status of the students with the Los Angeles Unified School District was unclear. The district issued a statement saying its review of the case was confidential and officials cannot comment on its outcome.

via LA County prosecutors decline to charge 15 Venice High School students in sexual assault case.

San Francisco school district sued after alleged sexual assault in principal’s office

The parents of students at Bessie Carmichael Elementary school in SoMa got a strange letter from then-principal Lawrence Gotanco in the spring of 2013.

“On Wednesday afternoon inappropriate behavior involving three students occurred on campus, and a video recording was made of this incident and shared with other students,” noted the letter.

Now, the vague language around the incident has been more clearly defined as a result of a lawsuit against San Francisco Unified School District.

The April 3 incident was a sexual assault that involved three 10-year-old boys, at least one of whom was a victim, according to the claims in a civil trial that began Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court.

The lawsuit filed against the school district by the guardian of one of the three boys says that another one of the boys sexually assaulted the victim, who was forced to “perform sexual acts.” The suit further alleges that the incident happened in Principal Gotanco’s office, and that he and other staff failed to protect the students in question when they left them alone.

According to the complaint, Gotanco and other staff “failed to provide reasonable security and protection” and they knew that the perpetrator did “constitute a risk to assault or abuse other students.”

The victim, now 12, no longer attends the school.

via SFUSD sued after alleged sexual assault in principal’s office.

49ers’ War on Women rages on: Ahmad Brooks being sued for sexual assault

Ahmad Brooks, an outside linebacker with the 49ers, is being sued for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman at the house of then-teammate Ray McDonald in December, according to a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in Santa Clara County Superior Court.

The alleged victim is the same woman who has accused McDonald of raping her Dec. 14 at McDonald’s home in San Jose. The Santa Clara County district attorney’s office is still investigating that incident. McDonald, who signed with the Bears in March after the 49ers released him in December, has sued the alleged victim for defamation.

The woman alleges Brooks, 31, “groped her in a sexual manner” when she was unconscious for more than eight minutes after falling on a deck near McDonald’s swimming pool. She believes surveillance video from McDonald’s home will show Brooks touching her. She alleges McDonald then carried her upstairs to his bedroom after she had regained consciousness and had sex with her without her consent.

The alleged victim is being represented by Gloria Allred, who has been critical of the NFL’s handling of assault and domestic-abuse cases.

via 49ers’ Ahmad Brooks being sued for alleged sexual assault – San Francisco Chronicle.