{"id":335636,"date":"2017-11-19T02:26:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T01:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/of-sex-abusers-and-sex-offenders\/"},"modified":"2017-11-19T02:26:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T01:26:33","slug":"of-sex-abusers-and-sex-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/of-sex-abusers-and-sex-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Sex Abusers and Sex Offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_97622\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97622\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-16-at-4.56.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Devon Buchanan | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/11\/10\/us\/men-accused-sexual-misconduct-weinstein.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0recently published a list of 25 men \u201caccused of sexual misconduct\u201d since the Harvey Weinstein revelations first came out in early October. The list is a who\u2019s-who of \u201cplayers\u201d in the entertainment, political, media and corporate worlds.\u00a0 Even scandalous stories about Bush-the-elder are finally coming out after decades of suppression.\u00a0\u00a0In being outed, many of the male predators have lost their jobs or contracts, some of their marriages ended, high-priced defense lawyers have been retained and a few say they are seeking professional counseling.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those identified as being or having been a sexual aggressor are being subject to public shaming.\u00a0\u00a0For a while, their lives might be miserable, under a public magnifying glass as to how he could have done what he is \u201caccused\u201d of doing and, therefore, who really is this man?\u00a0\u00a0However, for some, the price to be paid may be far harsher, including an arrest, trial and (if found guilty) jail as a sex offender.\u00a0\u00a0Prosecutors in New York, Los Angeles and London are sharpening their legalistic claws as they seek criminal indictments against Weinstein.\u00a0\u00a0Who will be the next player to fall?<\/p>\n<p>While the domestic sex-assault scandal mounted, Pres. Donald Trump was safely tucked away on a diplomatic tour of Asia.\u00a0\u00a0After 10 days of jet-hopping, pontificating, schmoozing and gobbling down mouthfuls of local cuisine, the distractor-in-chief is returning to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/11\/17\/of-sex-abusers-and-sex-offenders\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Devon Buchanan | CC BY 2.0 The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0recently published a list of 25 men \u201caccused of sexual misconduct\u201d since the Harvey Weinstein revelations first came out in early October. The list is a who\u2019s-who of \u201cplayers\u201d in the entertainment, political, media and corporate worlds.\u00a0 Even scandalous stories about Bush-the-elder are finally coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-335636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}