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Former DC Police Officer From MD Gets Jail Time For Assaulting, Threatening Coworkers: DOJ Former DC Police Officer From MD Gets Jail Time For Assaulting, Threatening Coworkers: DOJ
Former DC Police Officer From MD Gets Jail Time For Assaulting, Threatening Coworkers: DOJ A former Metropolitan Police officer will be joining some of the suspects he put away during a decades-long career for a short spell after being sentenced for assaulting members of the department, federal authorities announced. Robert Anderson, 55, of Hanover, Maryland, was sentenced to five months of incarceration for a series of simple assaults that involved offensive touching and his brandishing of a knife toward a man who attempted to intervene, prosecutors say. According to federal officials, in January 2019, a female officer working at the Metropolitan Police Department’s (MPD) Fifth …

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by Zak Failla
Cambridge, MA
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Ex-Everett Schools Chief Convicted Of Groping Female Employee: DA Ex-Everett Schools Chief Convicted Of Groping Female Employee: DA
Ex-Everett Schools Chief Convicted Of Groping Female Employee: DA The 79-year-old former Everett Superintendent of Schools was convicted on Thursday, Feb. 9, of groping a female employee multiple times in 2017 and 2018, authorities said. He faces more accusations from other women as well.  Frederick Foresteire was sentenced to 18 months in prison, where he will serve 90 days with the remainder of his time being suspended for two years, the Middlesex District Attorney's Office said. He must stay away from his victims, and he is required to register as a sex offender.  Foresteire had a long career in education and served as superintendent for…

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by Josh Lanier
Massapequa, NY
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Would-Be Male Staffer Files Sexual Harassment Complaint Against Embattled NY Rep. George Santos Would-Be Male Staffer Files Sexual Harassment Complaint Against Embattled NY Rep. George Santos
Would-Be Male Staffer Files Sexual Harassment Complaint Against Embattled NY Rep. George Santos Embattled New York Rep. George Santos is facing more troubling allegations, this time from a would-be congressional aide who’s accusing him of sexual harassment and ethics violations. In a post on Twitter Friday, Feb. 3, Derek Myers said he had filed a police report with the Capitol Police, and a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics. His tweet includes a copy of the ethics complaint “in light of transparency,” he said. In it, Myers claims the freshman Republican lawmaker representing parts of Nassau County and Queens asked him if he had a profile on Grindr, a popular gay dating…

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by Michael Mashburn
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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Female Boss Groped NJ Google Exec Who Was Ultimately The One Fired, Suit Says Female Boss Groped NJ Google Exec Who Was Ultimately The One Fired, Suit Says
Female Boss Groped NJ Google Exec Who Was Ultimately The One Fired, Suit Says Google is facing a lawsuit from one of its former directors, a New Jersey dad, alleging discrimination and retaliation from another director who allegedly harassed him at a company dinner in 2019. Ryan Olohan, 48, of Morris County, alleges in the suit he was fired from the massive company after another director rubbed his stomach and told him she knew he liked Asian women at a company dinner in 2019, according to a copy of the lawsuit published by Bloomberg Law. Olahan, a dad of seven from Montville who owns ice cream shop Seven Scoops & Sips, alleges in the suit that was only the …

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by Cecilia Levine
Worcester, MA
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Central Mass Officer Accused Of Sexual Harassment Resigns: Report Central Mass Officer Accused Of Sexual Harassment Resigns: Report
Central Mass Officer Accused Of Sexual Harassment Resigns: Report A Blackstone police officer accused of sexually harassing a college student while working at a former department in 2010 has resigned, WBUR reported.  WBUR: Blackstone police officer accused of sexual harassment resigns David Laudon was one of several officers who had previously quit in disgraced or were fired by a police department but later found work at another law enforcement agency, WBUR and the Boston Globe found. A student at UMass Dartmouth accused then-officer David Laudon of grabbing her breast when he gave her a ride to her resident hall late one night, a departmental …

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by Josh Lanier
Brentwood, NY
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Lake Grove Man Who Made Sexual Comments To A Girl, 11, Nabbed At Home, Police Say Lake Grove Man Who Made Sexual Comments To A Girl, 11, Nabbed At Home, Police Say
Lake Grove Man Who Made Sexual Comments To A Girl, 11, Nabbed At Home, Police Say A Lake Grove man was arrested after allegedly running up behind an 11-year-old girl leaving school and began making sexual propositions. The incident took place in Selden on Tuesday around 3:25 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 20 Commonwealth Ave. According to Suffolk County Police, the girl was approached by Zachary Chase, age 28, as she was walking home from Selden Middle School. Police said Chase ran up from behind the victim and made sexual propositions to her before she ran home.  Chase then left the scene in a car, striking a pole as he fled, police said. He was tracked to his h…

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by Kathy Reakes
Dorchester, MA
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'Now Arrest Me': Known Boston Man Drops Drawers Before Woman On MBTA Bus 'Now Arrest Me': Known Boston Man Drops Drawers Before Woman On MBTA Bus
'Now Arrest Me': Known Boston Man Drops Drawers Before Woman On MBTA Bus A Boston man literally asked to be put in handcuffs after it was reported that he showed his testicles to an 18-year-old female passenger on an MBTA bus this week, authorities said. Transit Police received information that Carlos Pires, age 48, had exposed himself to the woman while on a bus at Nubian Square Station around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 27.  Officers also learned that Pires was making "inappropriate and aggressive sexual comments" to the woman before bearing his genitals to her, Transit Police added.  As the woman pulled out her phone to call a relative, Pires said, …

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by David Cifarelli
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
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Alpine Country Club Worker Harassed For Months By Manager, Lawsuit Says Alpine Country Club Worker Harassed For Months By Manager, Lawsuit Says
Alpine Country Club Worker Harassed For Months By Manager, Lawsuit Says A former Alpine Country Club says she was forced to resign after the Human Resources department failed to protect her from one of the managers harassing her, she says in a newly-filed lawsuit. The lawsuit filed in Bergen County Superior Court claims that Makayla Spruill, 20, of Paramus, was groped multiple times by the country club's food and drink manager, Hannibal Campa. It also alleges that Campa joked about Spruill's body type and weight, and joked about her race, saying he would fire her if he wasn't afraid she'd "use the Black card' against him. The suit goes on to say that the count…

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by Cecilia Levine
Ashburn, VA
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Infant Porn Lands VA College Dean, Former US Navy Member In Prison: Feds Infant Porn Lands VA College Dean, Former US Navy Member In Prison: Feds
Infant Porn Lands VA College Dean, Former US Navy Member In Prison: Feds An assistant dean at a religious college in Virginia who was previously discharged from the US Navy will spend years behind bars for collecting hundreds of sexual images of children and infants, federal authorities announced. Robert Morris, 37, of Virginia Beach, has been sentenced to six years in prison for using a file-sharing program to receive more than 500 images of child sexual abuse material including children as young as infants. At the time of his arrest, prosecutors said that Morris was an assistant dean of students and systems administrator at Wave Leadership College, a religious…

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by Zak Failla
Lynn, MA
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Haverhill High School Football Season Ends Amid Alleged Hazing Video: Report Haverhill High School Football Season Ends Amid Alleged Hazing Video: Report
Haverhill High School Football Season Ends Amid Alleged Hazing Video: Report The remainder of Haverhill High School's football season was cut short as authorities are investigating an alleged hazing incident, Boston25 reports. Future practices were canceled and games forfeited after a video leaked showing members of the team allegedly hazing and sexually harassing a young man, the outlet continues.  Members of the coaching staff have also been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, which is being jointly investigated by Haverhill Police. BREAKING: Haverhill cancels rest of its high school football season, forfeits games, c…

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by David Cifarelli
Brentwood, NY
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Police Search For Man Accused Of Forcibly Touching Woman In Islandia Walgreens Police Search For Man Accused Of Forcibly Touching Woman In Islandia Walgreens
Police Search For Man Accused Of Forcibly Touching Woman In Islandia Walgreens Police asked the public for help locating a man who is accused of forcibly touching a woman in a Long Island store.  The incident happened in Walgreens, located at 1860 Veterans Memorial Highway in Islandia, at 3:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, Suffolk County Crime Stoppers reported on Tuesday, Oct. 18. Authorities said a man approached a woman while she was shopping, and when the woman rejected his advances, he slapped her on the buttocks and left the store on foot. Suffolk County Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward for information that leads to an arrest.  Authorities asked…

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by Nicole Valinote
Quincy, MA
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Brookline Fires Embattled Police Chief Following Sexual Harassment Probe Brookline Fires Embattled Police Chief Following Sexual Harassment Probe
Brookline Fires Embattled Police Chief Following Sexual Harassment Probe Brookline fired Police Chief Ashley Gonzalez on Friday, Oct. 14, after only months on the job after the town found he violated its policy against sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation.  The town hired Quincy-based Comprehensive Investigations and Consulting to perform an independent investigation into Gonzalez after they were made aware of several alleged violations of the town's sexual harassment policy in August.  That review recommended firing the 33-year law enforcement veteran after investigators found "multiple admitted, corroborated, and sustained allegati…

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by Josh Lanier