Category Archives: Abuse

This Rabbi is Striking Back at Pedophiles — Using Twitter

Forward: Meet the rabbi who’s on a mission to educate the Orthodox community about sexual abuse—and publicly out pedophiles while he’s at it. For the past 15 years, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz has been trying to break the cycle of silence … Continue reading

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A Rape On Campus

Wikipedia: “A Rape on Campus” is a now-retracted Rolling Stone article by Sabrina Erdely originally published on November 19, 2014, which claimed to describe a group sexual assault at the University of Virginia (UVA). It has since been discredited and … Continue reading

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A plea from the brother and victim of a predator

Yehuda Pogrow writes: Meir Pogrow, the justly-condemned sexual predator, is my older brother. He is roughly nine years my senior. I share my story because I hope to launch a movement that will raise from the ashes of this tragedy … Continue reading

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Jim Brown On The Balcony

NEWS: The Hall of Famer has long been dogged by accusations that he physically abused women. Perhaps the most notorious charge came after his football career, in 1968, when police say Brown threw model Eva Bohn-Chin off the second-floor balcony … Continue reading

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LAT: Plastic surgeon’s license revoked three years after court acquitted him of charges

Los Angeles Times: A Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who was accused — and acquitted — of unlawfully videotaping partly nude patients lost his medical license Friday after state officials said he was a threat to public safety. In 2013, a … Continue reading

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