When Your Rapist Demands Custody
Before her son began school last year, Tiffany Gordon showed his father’s mugshot to school administrators. “If you see this guy, you have to call the police,” she told them. Ten years earlier, when Tiffany was 12, a young man she knew invited her, her sister, and a friend on a late-night car ride. “I…
Attorney General William Barr Slams Progressive Prosecutors as “Dangerous”
Attorney General William Barr speaks during a tour of a federal prison on July 8 in Edgefield, South Carolina.John Bazemore/AP In a speech to law enforcement officers on Monday, Attorney General William Barr condemned a wave of progressive-minded district attorneys who have been elected in cities like Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago on pledges to reduce the…
Jeffrey Epstein Was Reportedly Taken Off Suicide Watch Before He Died. Would It Have Kept Him Alive?
Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post The unexpected death of Jeffrey Epstein on Saturday produced an outpouring of shock, conspiracy theories, and the announcement of at least two federal investigations into his apparent suicide in a Manhattan jail cell. “Mr. Epstein’s death,” Attorney General William Barr said in a statement, “raises serious questions that must be answered.” Less…
Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead in an Apparent Suicide
Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead Saturday morning in a Manhattan jail where the convicted sex offender was waiting to face mounting charges related to sex trafficking. Epstein, who had recently been denied bail, died in an apparent suicide at the Metropolitan Correctional Center at 7:30 a.m., according to officials who…
Jeffrey Epstein Dies in Apparent Suicide
Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead Saturday morning in a Manhattan jail where the convicted sex offender was waiting to face mounting charges related to sex trafficking. Epstein, who had recently been denied bail, died in an apparent suicide at the Metropolitan Correctional Center at 7:30 a.m., according to officials who…
What If Courts Treated Young Sex Trafficking Victims Like Cyntoia Brown as People, Not Perpetrators?
Maia Boakye One morning in February, Brittney, a baby-faced 17-year-old with short black braids, stands in front of a juvenile court judge in Compton, California, talking about kittens. Brittney had been in and out of the justice system since she was 14, after the state removed her from her physically abusive mother. Diagnosed with post-traumatic…