This Lawyer Is Bringing the Internet’s Worst Men to Heel
Mother Jones illustration; Natan Dvir Listen up, assholes. Carrie Goldberg is coming for you. Since founding her law firm in 2014, the defiant, trash-talking New York lawyer has built a reputation for going after sexual predators from Harvey Weinstein to anonymous trolls and purveyors of nonconsensual pornography. In her new book Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos,…
Hundreds of New Child Sex Abuse Cases Are Flooding New York’s Courts
ChiccoDodiFC/Getty When 52-year-old Michael Whalen stood up in front of the St. Louis Roman Catholic Church in downtown Buffalo, New York, in February 2018, to tell his story of being sexually abused by a priest as a teenager, it set off a Spotlight-style chain reaction. The accused priest, the Rev. Norbert F. Orsolits, told a…
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…
Should Clergy Be Required to Report Abusers Who Confess?
Chicetin/Getty Kristy Johnson was 6 years old in 1969, when her father, an educator employed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, began sexually abusing her at their home in Utah. Her mother discovered what was happening and sought help from their local Mormon bishop. But according to a civil lawsuit Johnson filed…