5 Supreme Court Sexual Assault Cases That You Should Know About

1.    Supreme Court Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh in sexual assault crime

Christine Ford is the woman who accuses Judge Kavanaugh of sexual assault. At the opening of the hearing she said she was "terrified," but it was her "duty" to testify. At the hearing, Christine said Kavanaugh tried to rape her at a student party in 1982, something the judge denies. "I think it's my civic duty to tell you what happened to me when Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school," she said, reading word by word a prepared statement, with interspersed silences as she tried to fight back the tears. She said that for a long time she was too embarrassed to talk about what happened, but she still suffered the consequences. "The details of that night, which is what brings me here, are things I will never forget. They were etched in my memory and tormented me at times in my adult life, " she said. Since Blasey Ford came to light with her testimony, two other women followed her.

2.    Deborah Ramirez also accuses Brett Kavanaugh

Deborah Ramirez, a classmate of Kavanaugh at Yale University, accuses him of rubbing her genitals in the face. Also, the second victim: Julie Swetnick said she witnessed abuses committed by the judge in her youth. She said, "I saw Brett Kavanaugh drink excessively at many of these parties and engage in abusive and aggressive behavior towards the girls, including touching or arranging to expose the private parts of the girls."

3.    The #Metoo revolution against sexual harassment shakes the US

The movement of the #metoo overcomes the limits of Hollywood and establishes a new threshold against the abuse of power. It is not Babylon. Not even Hollywood. It is the United States. A nation that has suddenly seen a veil fall and the garbage emerge hidden for decades. In less than two months, 34 senior executives, and celebrities have been struck down by accusations of sexual harassment. There are investors from Silicon Valley, bosses of Amazon and Pixar, filmmakers, media directors such as Vox or The New Republic, a star journalist of The New York Times, senators, would-be senators, cultural luminaries, actors, producers, writers, presenters, sports presidents, and more elites.

•    Knight Landesman, the art guru, and publisher of the magazine Artforum called his youngest employees for tea and, once seated, did not hesitate to run a finger over his shoulders while muttering obscenities gently.

•    The former comedian and now Democratic senator Al Franken took advantage of her subordinate being asleep to touch her breasts and to be photographed next to her as a satyr.

•    The assistant prosecutor, president of the Alabama Supreme Court and now Senate Republican candidate Roy Moore, prowled the courts in the 1970s in search of minors and, if any were to be persuaded, tried to merge with them in the darkness.

"It's time to clean the house!" The actress Rose McGowan has cried from the other side of the ideological quadrilateral. She was among the first to accuse producer Harvey Weinstein of rape and has become a symbol of the struggle. Her speech before the Women's Convention of Detroit marked a milestone. "For 20 years they have silenced me, insulted me, harassed me, slandered me. And you know what? What happened to me behind the scenes happens to everyone in this society. And we will not accept it. We're free. We are strong. We are all #metoo! "

4.    Anita Hill during her statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 11, 1991.

Anita Hill during her statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee, “His words recalled something that many already knew. That power and abuse often go hand in hand. Above all, in sex.  And there, in memory, Anita Hill appears. Anita Hill, a professor in 1991, dared to testify for sexual harassment against the Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas. She was humiliated and despised for it. It did not even stop the designation. But its value remained in the memory. 

5.    Sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children in Pennsylvania

The horrific news refers to the more than 1,000 children - possibly more - who were sexually abused for 70 years by some 300 "predatory" Catholic priests in six dioceses of Pennsylvania, United States. In 1997, after complaints were raised against him, Gawronski submitted a list of 41 possible victims to the diocese and confirmed that at least 12 children on the list had carried out the "cancer screening". The priest voluntarily confessed to having carried out sexual abuse in multiple instances and, nevertheless, from 1997 to 2002 Gawronski remained active in the clergy and was repeatedly reassigned to other parishes. And the abuser priest, Father Lawrence, remained active in the church for years under three different bishops. Those abuses occurred, "while senior church officials took measures to cover up what happened." These are 6 of the toughest cases in the 1,300-page report of the Pennsylvania grand jury.

The victims remember it!

The wave of complaints has broken the dam. The day does not pass when a scandal does not arise, and the person involved resigns. Some cases are from 40 years ago and some stand by the corner. But they all have a common denominator: the abuse of power. Countless women have participated and have been trampled on staying quiet. Others have managed to survive, and even some have transformed assaults into a story of strength — avail free consultation on sharing your legal issue from Gerri Wiebe- the best criminal lawyer in Winnipeg.