By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A prominent 91-year-old psychiatrist who was once close friends with Jeffrey Epstein was sued on Monday by a onetime model who said he enabled the late financier’s sex trafficking, and turned her into his “modern-day sex slave.” In a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, the plaintiff, using […]
A Boston-area fifth grade teacher who held a mock slave auction and used a racial epithet during instruction has been placed on paid leave, the local schools superintendent said. Gregory L. Martineau, superintendent of the Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough, wrote a letter to parents on Wednesday that detailed the incidents and expressed his […]
BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — Workers at New Hampshire’s youth detention center treated a teenage boy like a “sex slave and a punching bag,” and the state itself laid the groundwork for the abuse, an attorney argued Tuesday as the first of more than 1,000 lawsuits alleging similar horrors went to trial. David Meehan, who spent […]
A Pennsylvania parent took to TikTok after finding her fifth-grade daughter’s school assignment asking her to “roleplay as a slave master.” She held up the worksheet filled out by her daughter, which tasked students in the Conemaugh Township school district with creating a “wanted ad for a slave,” according to the video. “I couldn’t believe […]
BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court said Wednesday it had rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun. The defendant, a German […]
Renowned real estate mogul Grant Cardone sparked controversy with his recent comments on entrepreneurship and business investments. On Feb. 5, Cardone posted a video on Instagram where he expressed strong opinions about the pitfalls of starting a new business. “I wouldn’t go start a business today. Dumbest, most selfish thing a person could do,” Cardone […]
A Republican lawmaker in Kentucky described her white father as a “slave” as she spoke to a local NAACP chapter about her effort to ban schools in the state from offering diversity and inclusion programs. State Rep. Jennifer Decker (R) spoke before the Shelbyville Area NAACP earlier this month to tout a bill she introduced […]
MONROE — Cynthia Olsen is going to South Carolina this spring because of Robert Smalls. Olsen of Monroe is the author of two books, “The Home for Friendless Children” and the children’s title “Old Crabby Turtle.” Smalls (1839-1915) was a slave during the Civil War who risked his life to free his family from slavery. Later, […]
The vicar of Lancaster says her church wants to be “honest” about its links to the slave trade, as it hosts sculptures of an 11-year-old enslaved girl. The Rev Leah Vasey-Saunders said depictions of Sophia Fileen, baptised at Lancaster Priory in 1799, was “part of our journey” in addressing history. The church has also chosen […]