Woman who says Trump raped her in 1990s seeks his DNA for possible match with trace on dress
Lawyers for a woman who accuses President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she says she wore during the encounter. Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll's lawyers ...
Dating apps face U.S. inquiry over underage use and sex offenders
A House subcommittee is investigating popular dating services such as Tinder and Bumble for allegedly allowing minors and sex offenders to use their services. Bumble, Grindr, The Meet Group and the Match Group, which owns such popular services as Tinder, Match.com and OkCupid, are the ...
Former Mr. Todai finalist Daiki Inai gets three-year suspended sentence for Tokyo rape
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday handed a three-year suspended sentence to a 26-year-old man for raping a woman living in the apartment building where he was living in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in 2018. The court found Daiki Inai, who was 24 and a University ...
Indian Cabinet approves extending abortion deadline from 20 to 24 weeks
In a boost to female reproductive rights, India's Cabinet on Wednesday backed giving women more time to seek an abortion in a bill aimed at helping the young, disadvantaged and the raped. The government said the Cabinet had approved extending the abortion deadline to 24 ...
'Zero cooperation' from Prince Andrew over sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, says U.S. prosecutor
Prince Andrew has provided "zero cooperation" regarding late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and has yet to respond to a FBI request for an interview, a U.S. prosecutor said Monday. Andrew denies claims he had sex with a 17-year-old girl procured by Epstein and said in ...
What lies behind Shiori Ito's lonely #MeToo struggle
In Japan, feminist voices have been raised for #MeToo, but they are often barely heard.
Sex crime victim describes experience to judges in seminar held at Supreme Court-related facility
A sex crime victim gave a lecture at a seminar held for criminal judges at a facility related to the Supreme Court in October last year, informed sources said Saturday. The seminar, held at the Legal Training and Research Institute, was designed to help participating ...
Harvey Weinstein asked investigator to go after his rape accusers, trial told
Harvey Weinstein told a private investigator to approach women he suspected were telling journalists of his alleged sexual misconduct, his rape trial was told Friday. Two months before the #MeToo movement ignited in late 2017, the then Hollywood titan emailed a "red flag list" of ...
Untouched yet ruined: The toll of South Korea's spy-cam epidemic
The wedding hall was booked and home furnishings all bought but the bride — one of thousands of women to fall victim to an epidemic of high-tech voyeurism in South Korea — is not here. Lee Yu-jung took her own life after a colleague secretly ...
Bollywood 'casting couch' culture endures despite global #MeToo movement
It took a minute for Malhaar Rathod, then an aspiring teenage actress, to realize what the 65-year-old Indian film producer was asking her to do — and to make the decision to walk away. "He claimed he had a part for me and then asked ...
#MeToo conviction of South Korean prosecutor Ahn Tae-geun overturned
A former prosecutor who was tried following groping allegations that fueled South Korea's #MeToo movement walked free on Thursday after his conviction was quashed by the country's top court. Ahn Tae-geun, 53, was jailed for two years for abuse of power in January last year ...
A former television reporter is appealing a civil court ruling that ordered him to pay damages to Japanese #MeToo symbol Shiori Ito in a high-profile rape case. Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a former Washington bureau chief for TBS TV and a biographer of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ...
