Saturday, May 31, 2014

U.S Google sued by former in-house massage therapist for alleged sexual harassment

from nydailynews


A federal lawsuit alleges the social media giant fired the masseuse from its New York office after he complained about unwanted advances from an engineer. Plaintiff Elvis Gardin claims the employee masturbated during a massage session.

 
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
 
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Google has been sued for sexual harassment by a former company masseuse who says he was fired after complaining about an engineer who pleasured himself during a massage.KRISZTIAN BOCSI/BLOOMBERGGoogle has been sued for sexual harassment by a former company masseuse who says he was fired after complaining about an engineer who pleasured himself during a massage.
A New Jersey man has filed a federal suit in Newark accusing Google of retaliating against him by firing him as the on-site massage therapist after he complained an employee masturbated during a session at the search giant's New York office.
Elvis Gardin was fired in May 2012 after fours year on the job. His suit alleges he was terminated after he complained of sexual harassment and then took a leave to care for his sick mother.

Gardin's suit says he is gay, and therefore a member of a protected class under New York City Human Rights Law and the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, reported the New Jersey Law Journal.

He complained to his bosses that he was subjected to unwanted sexual advances by a male engineer who had once masturbated during a massage session.
"It is our allegation that, if a female employee had made the kind of complaint that he made, it would have been handled differently," said lawyer Andrew Clark, who is representing Gardin.
Google declined to comment.


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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Judge will allow photos of Maryland teacher getting busy with family dog

from dailycaller.com


12:00 PM 07/23/2013

UPDATE: Judge will allow photos of Maryland teacher getting busy with family dog (and it was a Lab)



Stephanie Mikles. Photo: Harford County Sheriff



The Daily Caller can now update the case of Stephanie Mikles, the Maryland teacher on trial for “unnatural or perverted sexual practice” because she allegedly had “sexual intercourse with a dog.”
The first update is that the canine in question is a Labrador retriever. The second update is the judge in the case denied requests by an attorney representing Mikles to suppress certain evidence and to dismiss the case, reports Bel Air Patch.
Mikles, 46, is a behavioral specialist with the Harford County Schools who has worked mainly with special needs children. The shocking evidence against her includes still photos. (RELATED: Cops say they have photos of Maryland teacher doing it with family dog)
There are 12 images in all allegedly depicting multiple instances of Mikles getting busy with the animal. The twisted acts allegedly occurred in August 2008. Assistant state’s attorney Lisa Marts informed the judge that police believe the teacher’s husband snapped the photos.
You’d think that such images would make prosecution a slam-dunk. However, visiting Baltimore County Judge Robert Dugan suggested precisely, exactly the opposite is true.
“Believe me Ms. Marts, this is no slam dunk for the state,” Dugan told the state’s attorney, notes Bel Air Patch.
Nevertheless, on July 10 the judge denied two defense motions to dismiss the case based on constitutional issues. He also denied a motion to suppress the allegedly incriminating photographs as evidence.
Leslie Gladstone, the attorney representing Mikles, argued that no animal was injured during any of the acts that allegedly occurred, that the alleged incidents occurred in a private home and that the bestiality statute at issue is too vague because it fails to define an “unnatural or perverted” sexual act.
In denying the motions to dismiss, Judge Dugan said he agreed with the state’s attorney that the state can protect animals in private homes if it so chooses.
Dugan did agree that the law is vague but said it didn’t matter. “I’m not here to grade the statute,” he said, according to the local news site.
The judge also allowed the photos as evidence because he did not buy Gladstone’s technical argument that the warrant allowing the seizure of the photos required police to review them only in a lab setting, which didn’t happen.
Police found the images because they were investigating other charges against Mikles involving sexual abuse of a minor and child pornography. No photographic evidence of those crimes ever turned up.
On August 7, a jury trial is scheduled in the case.
Sensibly enough, there is no statute of limitations in Maryland for bestiality, a misdemeanor punishable by up to 10 years in prison and fine of $1000.
Since the indictment, the Harford County Schools System has placed Mikles on administrative leave without pay. She has been an employee since 2009.
The dog apparently still lives with the teacher’s family in her home in bucolic Harford County.
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Monday, May 26, 2014

Pope to meet sex abuse victims at Vatican next month, declares 'zero tolerance' for pedophile priests

from fox





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Pope Francis announced Monday that he planned to meet with a group of clergy sex abuse victims at the Vatican next month, the first such encounter for a pontiff who has been criticized by sex abuse victims for not expressing solidarity with them as he has for other groups. 
Francis also revealed that three bishops are currently under investigation by the Vatican for abuse-related reasons, though it wasn't clear if they were accused of committing abuse itself or of having covered it up.
"There are no privileges," Francis told reporters while returning to Rome from a three-day trip to the Middle East. ""On this issue we must go forward, forward. Zero tolerance."
The meeting with a half-dozen victims will include a Mass celebrated by Francis at the Vatican hotel where he lives. A statement from the office of Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston who is organizing the encounter, said the date and details hadn't been finalized but that the meeting was expected to take place "in the coming months."
The executive director of the main U.S. victims' group, Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, dismissed the meeting as "just utterly, utterly meaningless."
"The simple truth is this is another gesture, another public relations coup, another nice bit of symbolism that will leave no child better off and bring no real reform to a continuing, scandal-ridden church hierarchy," SNAP Executive Director David Clohessy told The Associated Press.
Clohessy said the pope has shown himself capable of making real change in other areas such as church governance and finance but hasn't done so in dealing with sex abuse by Catholic clergy.
But a U.S. attorney who represents clergy abuse victims hoped the meeting would be "substantive and meaningful" rather than for cosmetic purposes. attorney Mitchell Garabedian said "meeting directly with victims is the most powerful tool that the pope can use in understanding the ugliness and horror of clergy sexual abuse and why it must be stopped or prevented." He added that there should be more than one such meeting.
Francis spoke to reporters for nearly an hour after his grueling, three-day trip to Jordan, the West Bank and Israel, taking all 11 questions posed and responding with candor and occasional humor.
He said he would travel to Sri Lanka for two days and the Philippines in January 2015. And he suggested that he might follow in emeritus Pope Benedict XVI's footsteps and retire if he no longer had the strength to do the job.
"We need to look at him as an institution: he opened a door, the door of emeritus popes," Francis said. "Only God knows if there will be others, but the door is open."
If and when the time comes, he said, "I will do what the Lord tells me to do, pray and try to find God's will. But I think that Benedict XVI wasn't a unique case."
Francis sought to lower expectations about his planned encounter in the Vatican next month with the Israeli and Palestinian presidents, which he announced during the trip. He stressed that they were coming to pray together, not enter into peace mediation.
"We are coming just to pray, then everyone goes home," he said. "But I think prayer is important, praying together."
He said he had originally hoped to arrange the encounter in Jerusalem itself, but that the idea was scrapped because of the enormous logistical problems that would have been involved. Preparations are already under way, he said, noting that a rabbi and Islamic cleric would join him in leading the prayers.
One of the more poignant moments of Francis' pilgrimage came Monday when he visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem and kissed the hands of survivors in a show of humility and respect. Francis said his gesture came spontaneously.
"The gestures that are the most authentic you don't think about," ahead of time, he said.
Given his respect for Holocaust survivors, Francis was asked what he intended to do about the pending beatification case for Pope Pius XII, the World War II-era pope accused by some Jews of not speaking out enough against the Holocaust. Jewish groups have asked that the case be shelved pending the opening of the archives of his pontificate, or at least until the generation of Holocaust survivors has passed.
Francis has bent the Vatican's saint-making rules for a half-dozen people so far in his pontificate, waiving the usual second miracle requirement for example to canonize Pope John XXIII last month. Francis, however, offered no such wiggle room for Pius.
"There's still no miracle," he said. "If there are no miracles, it can't go forward. It's blocked there."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Santa Barbara killer Elliot Rodger vowed to 'slaughter' women who rejected him

from youtube  

Santa Barbara killer Elliot Rodger vowed to 'slaughter' women who rejected him
Rodger, the son of a Hollywood director, killed six people and injured 13 before apparently shooting himself in the head on Friday. The devastated father of victim Veronika Weiss told the Daily News his daughter would likely not have scored Rodger: 'She was the opposite of what he thought he was shooting. She was the kind who would have reached out to him.'








Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Ray J Wedding present to Kim K, 3 months of porn profits

from tmz

PORN PROFITS!

5/19/2014 1:00 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF

EXCLUSIVE
Ray J Kim Kardashian Wedding Gift
It may be the most awesome wedding gift of all time ... Ray J is giving Kim Kardashian and Kanye Westa $47K check ... representing 4 months of his 2014 profits from the epic porn tape with Kim.

It's breathtaking on 2 levels -- that Ray J has such humongous cajones, and that the tape is still raking in a fortune after 7 years.

Here's the breakdown of the wedding gift.  Mind you, this is just Ray J's cut:

-- January  $6,135.60
-- February $20,097.31
-- March $9,674.76
-- April $10,931.52
-- TOTAL:  $46,840.13

Now get this ... sources from Vivid Entertainment tell us the tape has grossed $50 MILLION!

Remember, we're told Kim gets AT LEAST as much as Ray J, though we don't know exactly how much.

We've reached out to Kim to see if she'll accept Ray's gift, but so far no word back. We're told ... if she doesn't want it he'll donate the money to her favorite charity.

Ray J -- yes, that's his wallet AND he's happy to see you.

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Monday, May 19, 2014

Pamela Anderson reveals sexual abuse: 'I just wanted off this earth'

from cnn


By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 11:16 AM EDT, Mon May 19, 2014



Pamela Anderson is probably best known for her role as C.J. Parker in the TV series "Baywatch." Check out some of the other roles the actress has performed.

(CNN) -- Actress Pamela Anderson revealed Friday that she suffered sexual abuse throughout her childhood, starting at age 6 when she was molested by a babysitter.
The former "Baywatch" star talked about it in remarks at the launch of her animal rights charity -- The Pamela Anderson Foundation -- at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
"I feel now might be the time to reveal some of my most painful memories," she said, according to the transcript posted on her online blog.
Although she had "loving parents" while growing up in British Columbia, Canada, Anderson said she "did not have an easy childhood."
She recounted being molested between the ages of 6 and 10 "by my female babysitter," and then being raped when she was 12 by the 25-year-old brother of a "friend's boyfriend." The man "decided he would teach me backgammon, which led into a back massage, which led into rape," she said.
Coincidentally, the Cannes event at which she revealed the rape was a backgammon tournament.
"Needless to say, I had a hard time trusting humans," Anderson said. "I just wanted off this earth."
Although her parents "tried to keep me safe," the "world was not a safe place," she said. Her mother was busy working two waitressing jobs, she said.
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"My mom was always crying," she said.
She never told her mother about the molestation and rapes because "I couldn't (bear) to give her any more disruptive information," she said. "I couldn't break her heart any more than it was breaking."
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Anderson, now 46, said her love for animals saved her.
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"My loyalty remained with the animal kingdom," she said. "I vowed to protect them and only them. I prayed to the whales with my feet in the ocean. My only real friends, till I had children."
Before her acting career took off, Anderson started her career as a Playboy centerfold, appearing on 13 covers of the magazine starting in 1989.



Friday, May 9, 2014

Donald Sterling purportedly says jealousy behind racist comments

from cnn

By Jason Hanna, CNN
updated 7:40 PM EDT, Fri May 9, 2014








STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • NEW: Donald Sterling's wife vows to fight any effort to force her to sell, attorney says
  • RadarOnline releases another purported audio recording of Sterling
  • The Clippers owner allegedly says he was jealous that V. Stiviano was with black men
  • "I'm trying to have sex with her. I'm trying to play with her," man purported to be Sterling says
(CNN) -- In a yet another audio recording, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling purportedly explains why he infamously told a woman not to bring black people to his games: He was jealous that she was with black men.
The recording released Friday -- the second in two days unveiled by RadarOnline.com -- allegedly reveals Sterling trying to add context to racist comments that got him banned from the NBA last month. That context, he purportedly says, was that he was trying to sleep with the woman he was talking to.
"The girl is black. I like her. I'm jealous that she's with other black guys. I want her. So what the hell, can I in private tell her, you know, 'I don't want you to be with anybody'?" the man purported to be Sterling says in the new tape, according to RadarOnline.
"I'm trying to have sex with her. I'm trying to play with her," the man also says. "You know, if you (are trying) to have sex with a girl and you're talking with her privately, you don't think anybody's there. You may say anything in the world. What difference does it make?
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"Then if the girl tapes it and releases it, my God, it's awful."
The new recording is of a phone conversation between Sterling and an unidentified person, made after the controversy over racist comments erupted last month, RadarOnline said.
CNN's attempts to verify with Sterling's representatives that he is on the tape were not immediately successful.
Sterling, an 80-year-old married lawyer and billionaire real-estate investor, has not released a public statement since celebrity gossip website TMZ posted a 10-minute audio recording in which he chastised a woman named V. Stiviano for posting pictures of her posing with African-Americans, including basketball Hall of Famer Earvin "Magic" Johnson.
Sterling made the comments during an argument with Stiviano, 31, on April 9, according to TMZ.
"In your lousy f***ing Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with -- walking with black people," he says.
"If it's white people, it's OK?" responds Stiviano, who is part African-American, according to the recording. "If it was Larry Bird, would it make a difference?"
Although the latest recording claims that Sterling was jealous, the tapes released last month by TMZ purportedly reveal Sterling being OK with Stiviano sleeping with black men.
Referring to Johnson, Sterling purportedly said: "Admire him, bring him here, feed him, f**k him, but don't put (Magic) on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don't bring him to my games."
Sterling also said, according to TMZ: "You can sleep with (black people). You can bring them in; you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that ... and not to bring them to my games."
One apparent source of friction, according to the pair on the TMZ tapes, was the man's view that she "was perceived as either a Latina or a white girl," and that people were calling him with negative reactions to her pictures with black people.
"People call you and tell you that I have black people on my Instagram, and it bothers you," the woman said.
"Yeah, it bothers me a lot if you want to ... broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?" the man TMZ identified as Sterling responded.
The TMZ release triggered a firestorm that led to Sterling's lifetime ban from the NBA and a $2.5 million fine. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has asked the other 29 owners to force Sterling, the longest-tenured owner in the league, to sell the Clippers.
More from Friday's tape: 'I know I'm wrong'
In the new tape, the man RadarOnline identifies as Sterling says he was wrong.
"I know I'm wrong, what I said was wrong. But I never thought a private conversation would go anywhere out to the public," the man says.
"I didn't want her to bring anybody to my game because I was jealous. I mean, I'm being honest," he continues.
In a recording that RadarOnline released Thursday -- again featuring someone it says is Sterling talking to an unidentified man -- Sterling allegedly denies he's a racist.
"You think I'm a racist?" a man purported to be Sterling says. "You think I have anything in the world but love for everybody? You don't think that. You know I'm not a racist."
A second man in that tape says, "they're trying to force you to sell."
"You can't force someone to sell property in America," Sterling purportedly says. "Well, I'm a lawyer; that's my opinion."
The matter of the team's sale is with the NBA's Advisory/Finance Committee, which met Wednesday in a conference call. Members discussed the "termination of Mr. Sterling's ownership of the team," the NBA said in a news release. The committee will meet again next week, the statement said.
If the case proceeds to a full vote, 75% of the owners would have to approve the forced sale.
Wife wants to retain her ownership share
However, an attorney for Donald Sterling's estranged wife, Shelly, said Friday on CNN's "Situation Room" that she wants to keep her 50% stake in the team and they have been talking by phone with NBA officials.
"She wants to remain a passive owner," said attorney Pierce O'Donnell. "She's not going to want to manage the team. She's going to want a very skilled, professional, well-heeled new owner to come in and replace Donald," O'Donnell said. "She only wants to own the team in her lifetime. She's 79-years-old. At this point, she's earned it. She's been an owner for 33 years, and she's an avid fan."
Technically, the team is now owned by the Sterling family's trust, with Donald and Shelly Sterling serving as co-trustees. Their two children are named as beneficiaries.
During a news conference announcing Sterling's lifetime ban, the NBA's Silver was asked whether there would be sanctions against Shelly Sterling.
"No, there have been no decisions about other members of the Sterling family, and I should say that this ruling applies specifically to Donald Sterling and Donald Sterling's conduct only," Silver said.
Shelly Sterling hasn't done anything wrong and will fight any effort to try to force her to sell her stake in the team, O'Donnell said.
She has not violated the "the bylaws and constitution of the NBA," he said. "...The last thing I saw that being a wife of a reviled co-owner is not one of them."
He described the calls by fans and players to force his client to sell her share as "mob psychology."
"I think it's preposterous to think that players under contract who make tens of millions of dollars a year are going to boycott because a 79-year-old woman, a passive owner of the team who doesn't manager, is sitting in the stands," O'Donnell said. "It's ridiculous."
O'Donnell said Shelly Sterling has denounced her husband's comments.
The Sterlings have not lived together for more than a year. Shelly Sterling is "weighing her options" as to whether she wants a divorce, O'Donnell said.
He also said she categorically denied making any racist statements, as alleged in court documents filed when the couple was sued for discrimination at their apartment buildings.
O'Donnell said those allegations were retracted, and the court ultimately decided in favor of the Sterlings.
Although her husband is banned from NBA arenas, Shelly Sterling has attended some of the Clippers playoff games since the scandal unfolded.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Steve Almasy, Stephanie Elam, Chelsea J. Carter, Ray Sanchez and Chris Isidore contributed to this report.