A #MeToo champion in public; a physical and sexual abuser in private

Rachel Stoltzfoos reports in the Daily Caller,

One of the women who accused former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of physical and verbal abuse said it got worse after President Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election.

Because of what his quick rise as a prominent anti-Trumper did to his ego, Tanya Selvaratnam said Trump’s win exacerbated Schneiderman’s abusive tendencies. The Washington Post included her remarks in a report on her life since coming forward with the accusations last year. She accused Schneiderman of verbally demeaning her and physically abusing her during sex.

Selvaratnam told The Washington Post she was disillusioned by the disconnect she saw between Schneiderman’s public image as a #MeToo champion — “People would literally be coming up to him and saying: Save us” — and his treatment of her in private. And that compounded the “trauma of the Trump era” for her.

From The Washington Post:

“The abuse seemed to worsen after Donald Trump was elected, she says, as Schneiderman began burnishing his reputation as one of the president-elect’s primary antagonists. ‘I was seeing behind the scenes that it was kind of smoke and mirrors, his ability to actually take down the president,’ she recalls. ‘I was disillusioned on many levels — with him as a person and as a politician.’ The trauma of the Trump era felt both personal and political. ‘People would literally be coming up to him and saying: Save us,‘ she says. ‘I witnessed this time and time again. In the back of my mind, I’d think, Do they have any idea what he does to me at home?’

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A few weeks later, she went with a friend to his apartment to pick up her things. Selvaratnam still thought she was alone in having suffered from his abuse, and that the pressures of the Trump win had been, in part, to blame. But the friend who escorted her, Jennifer Gonnerman, a staff writer at the New Yorker, said she bet there were other women with similar experiences.”

Selvaratnam said she doesn’t regret coming forward, and is working on a book to help other victims of abuse. Schneiderman resigned in May 2018, just hours after she and three other women detailed the allegations of abuse in a report by The New Yorker. He initially denied the allegations, but later apologized after prosecutors decided not to press charges.

Albuquerque Archdiocese releases names of church leaders accused of sexually abusing children

JR Oppenheim reports at KOB in Albuquerque,

In a letter released Tuesday, the Archdiocese of Santa Fe released a list of names of the religious leaders accused of sexually abusing a child.

The archdiocese released the list of 72 names after KOB went to court asking a judge to make the allegations public. A ruling on that request is still pending.

Read more here.

Democrat Mayor accused of sexually assaulting two male teens

Two men are accusing Democrat Mayor of Seattle, Ed Murray, of sexually assaulting them when they were minors. Read more here.

hat tip Stephen Green

Sexual abuse and adultery

Actual journalist Attkisson puts together the sexual abuse and adultery claims against Bill Clinton, with pictures of each accuser here.

Jennifer flowers

Monica Lewinsky

Dolly Kyle Browning

Elizabeth Ward Gracen

Juanita Broaddrick

Kathleen Willey

Sally Miller

Sexual abuse of boys by adult females

Ally Fogg writes at the Guardian,

Children do not have affairs with older women, they are abused by them.


...Clinical research offers no support for the idea that victims of childhood sexual abuse are less damaged when the offenders are female. Meanwhile, there is evidence that male victims of female offenders may find it harder to get help and address the consequences, when everyone tells them they should have enjoyed it.

Read more here.

Disturbing

Gerard Vanderleun posted in American Digest this poem by a young Barack Obama

published in the Spring 1981 issue of “Feast,” a 51-page student literary journal that described itself as "a semi-annual journal of short poetry and fiction collected from the Occidental College community.”

This is the line that caught my attention and revulsion:

Pop takes another shot, neat,

Points out the same amber

Stain on his shorts that I’ve got on mine, and

Makes me smell his smell, coming

From me;

Read more here.

Dylan Farrow writes of being sexually abused by Woody Allen.

This is a photo of Dylan Farrow.


Dylan writes this piece in the New York Times about being sexually abused by Woody Allen. I understand Dorothy Rabinowitz has written a critique of Dylan's claims in the Wall Street Journal. I respect Dorothy's work, and I would like to read it, but I do not have a WSJ subscription any more. Dylan seems very convincing to me.

Thanks to American Digest for linking to the Times piece.

Woman confronts abuser and uploads the conversation onto You Tube

You go, girl! The perp was her teacher when the woman was a 12-years-old girl. The perp is now an assistant principal. I wonder how many more will now come forward. These perps never "help" just one or two.