Last year, on August 14, former radio DJ David Mueller was found guilty of groping Taylor Swift during a 2014 pre-concert meet-and-greet in Denver. After a lengthy litigation process—which involved Taylor countersuing Mueller for a symbolic $1, after his initial lawsuit alleged that her sexual assault claims cost him his job—the judge officially dismissed Mueller’s…
In a Pennsylvania courtroom this afternoon, Bill Cosby was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault. The verdict comes after an initial trial in 2017 ended in a mistrial, and after dozens of women had come forward with their own accusations against the comedian. While today was undoubtedly a victory for the central plaintiff…
This week, more than 150 women—including Olympians Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney— testified in the Larry Nassar trial that Nassar, a former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor, sexually abused them. Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison on Wednesday, bringing the trial to an end, but the testimony from that…
For decades, internationally respected sports medicine physician Larry Nassar sexually abused at least 150 girls and young women under the guise of providing medical treatment for their sports injuries. He exploited the trust children are taught to place, unquestioningly, in doctors, “treating” them as a physician at Michigan State University, at a private gymnastics gym,…