Sarah’s News Roundup 06.02.18

Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on charges of rape and a criminal sex act by a grand jury in New York.
Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on charges of rape and a criminal sex act by a grand jury in New York.

The offences relate to an alleged attack in 2004 and another in 2013.

Neither women have been named.

The decision to indict means the grand jury believes there is enough evidence to pursue a prosecution and moves the case towards a trial.

New York district attorney Cyrus Vance said Weinstein was one step closer to accountability but added that his office would try the case in the courtroom not the press.

Germaine Greer has been widely criticised for her comments about rape at the Hay Literary Festival ahead of the publication of her new book, On Rape.

Greer said some rape cases should be seen as “non-consensual…bad sex” rather than “spectacularly violent crime” as most “don’t involve any injury whatsoever”.

She also suggested the punishment for rape should be reduced claiming the legal system can’t cope.

Greer anticipated this might be controversial: “It is moments like these, I can hear the feminists screaming at me: ‘You’re trivialising rape.'”

Earlier this year Greer sparked controversy by accusing some of the women who came forward with their “#metoo”s of “whinging”.

Roxana Hernandez, a transgender immigrant, has died in US custody while seeking asylum.

Ms Hernandez was detained for deportation due to previous convictions in Texas for theft, prostitution and illegally entering the country and was “processed as an expedited removal”.

She became sick while being held but it wasn’t until she had been unwell for six days that she was transferred to the Cibola County Correctional Center to receive medical treatment for “symptoms of pneumonia, dehydration and complications associated with HIV”.

Roxana died the following week.

Missouri governor Eric Greitens has resigned over allegations of him taking photos of a naked woman without her consent.

He is also facing impeachment over an extramarital affair and a campaign finance inquiry.

Greitens has called the allegations a “political witch hunt” and denies everything.

The Supreme Court has allowed Arkansas to shut down all but one abortion clinic in the state, forcing women to travel long distances should they choose to terminate their pregnancy.

Arkansas is the first state to ban medication abortion and it is feared that other anti-choice politician’s in other states will follow their lead – essentially making abortion so difficult to obtain it becomes outlawed.

Sarah x

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