The #MeToo Movement (not the real one, but the co-opted media heyday of 2019) was full of people I'd never heard of, being brought to task for things they did long ago.  Here is another one.  Better late than never.

After reading up a bit, he sounds terrible.  And he looks like the actual cryptkeeper.  His face is a jump scare, like a ghoul that rapes you in your nightmares with his stringy white ghost hair.

He was convicted on four counts of sexual assault, as discussed in the linked video.  His son was influential in speaking against him.  I feel bad for such family members.  There's usually nothing they can do about it other than what he apparently did.

But I also was personally struck by the comments of the survivors.  They mentioned how unfair it is, that he's just gone on about his business, living in wealth and privilege the whole time, while they've suffered constantly.  And they still have to pay for the rest of their lives.

I know this feeling.  My mom really did me dastardly wrong, and got away with blaming me.  Very much like these women, I was forced to keep quiet and accept being blamed for the crimes against me for many, many years.  And she kept all the money, too. 

But you just have to let go of all of that and be happy with the days that you have.  Because that's winning. 

You got him convicted.  He spends the rest of his days in prison, like Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein  :)  He's a baloney sandwich guy now.  You get to do arts and crafts with the children that you love, or whatever relaxes yourself. 

Sometimes a person has a name that sounds right.  And I suspect this is one of those times.  Because Hamish Ogston sounds horrible when I say it out loud.  And he sounds horrible when I read about him.

I had never heard about this person before, but he's apparently one of the wealthiest people in Britain.  And he allegedly likes Asian sex workers.

WION
"The accusations against Ogston include trafficking, illegal employment, drug procurement, extreme exploitation, and attempts to bring sex workers into the country under false pretenses.

Ogston is also accused of trying to bring Thai sex workers falsely claiming to be "bamboo basket weavers" into the country in 2022.

Ogston has also been accused of paying another Thai sex worker to procure prostitutes and class-A drugs, including crystal meth and cocaine, between 2014 and 2023.
Ogston's response

Ogston vehemently denies these accusations, stating that they do not amount to systematic exploitation.

However, potential offences include immigration, prostitution, and human trafficking laws, as well as knowingly employing adults without the right to work or controlling prostitution for gain. all carrying significant prison sentences.
What does it mean?

The impact of Ogston's alleged exploitation on the women involved has been severe. 

Some women reportedly required medical attention due to extreme sexual acts he allegedly demanded."

While none of this is "proven beyond a reasonable doubt," it all sounds far too consistent, cohesive, and believable to me.  Ogston doesn't say he didn't do it.  He claims his behavior doesn't equal systematic exploitation.

Meanwhile, if you run an internet search on his name, you will see that nobody wants his money anymore.  Hopefully that means that economically vulnerable women won't have to deal with his predatory bullshit anymore.  Of course there won't be prison for him just because women allegedly needed medical care after he got his rocks off.

The part where he calls them "bamboo basket weavers" clinches it for me, that he finds his racist exploitation of them purely adorable.  Mr. Colonialist feels 100% entitled to do as he wishes with them.

In a surprise twist, something very popular on TikTok may turn out to be terrible.

The Daily Mail

"A small-town police chief famous for his TikTok clips allegedly swapped incest videos on a secret social media account and kept a trove of child pornography, court documents reveal.

Joel Justice Womochil, 38, was charged with 24 counts of sexual exploitation of a child and 10 counts of aggravated internet trading of child pornography. 

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The engaged cop's deleted secret profile's bio read: '38 w male looking 4 that special girl that was raised right and wants 2 continue the tradition. If u luv the little things In life message on Wire same name.' "

Gross.

Like the horrifying Isabella Scavelli tragedy, here is another story of a rape victim being attacked and traumatized twice in a row.

A 911 dispatcher in Boston happened to be watching the webcam from the southernmost point in the USA, a buoy in Key West.

He saw a man dragging a woman behind the buoy in a headlock.  Moments later the man emerged, fixing his pants.  The woman stumbled away partially undressed.  So he called the police in Key West to report what he had seen. 

WCVB

"Citing records, WPLG also reported that other witnesses in Key West called police to report a “nude female, crying and screaming.”

Officers spoke to the victim at a nearby hotel and later learned that she was raped elsewhere earlier that same night. Gasag claimed he stepped in to "rescue" her prior to driving her to the Key West landmark.
Gasag was also accused of returning to the scene of the crime to tamper with evidence, WPLG reported.
Gasag recently pled guilty in the case and was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison and five years of probation."

Did you catch that?  Mr. Gasag came across a woman in distress because she had been raped.  So he offered to help her, put her in his car, took her to a remote location, got her in a headlock, and raped her again.  It's fun being a woman, for sure.

No update on the first rapist of the night.

Chris Hansen's legendary show To Catch A Predator has spawned many imitators on YouTube.  The premise is simple:  adults pose as minors online.  They engage in explicit chats with adults and lure them to a bait house.  When the adult arrives for a meet-up with a teenager, it's a camera crew and the police instead.

I enjoy watching this sort of content for obvious reasons.  I don't want anyone to feel safe luring minors.  I want them to always believe it's Gordon Flowers on the other side, some big hairy fat dude who delights in having you arrested for clicks.  There's never, ever a child available for sex.  Only that guy.

I had never heard of Boopac Shakur.  There are an abundance of predator hunters with shows and channels now, I really can't keep up. 

I'm sorry that he was killed. 

CNN

"Lee confronted two teenagers Friday night – a 17- and 18-year-old – at a restaurant in Pontiac. He accused one of being a pedophile and punched him, according to the police news release.The teen who was punched pulled out a knife, and the other – suspected to be the 17-year-old – shot Lee several times with a pistol, according to police. He was taken to the hospital and later died of his injuries.
The suspects fled but were arrested Saturday afternoon, police say. The sheriff’s office has not released their names."

Chris Hansen had to stop doing TCAP because it was too legally murky.

But one of the cornerstone, foundational things of the premise is to not be alone.  You always have a crew of people -- and Hansen always had a house full of police with him, which obviously Shakur and the other new wave of pred catchers don't have.

But you also have to have everything on tape, 100 percent of the time, in case they say you tried to punch them.  This apparently happened at a popular restaurant that almost certainly has cameras that will show exactly what happened.

The whole thing is tragic.  Please, my dudes, never punch them.

RIP Boopac, thanks for trying.

If grown adult men in one of the most violent professional sports can't get helped when they get sexually abused -- and clearly they can't -- what chance do women and children stand?

AP News

"“Certainly, having somebody like Kyle Beach, who was a known player, someone who was very well known, to come forward — that’s what gave him the courage,” attorney Antonio Romanucci said of his client, identified in court documents as John Doe. “People say, ‘Oh, this is a money grab’ — it’s not. I mean, ultimately, there will be hopefully some financial compensation for him. But there is no doubt that in these situations, people who have been abused sexually take time for them to come forward. And when they see that other people come forward, that gives them a path to follow.”

Welcome to our world.  They always say you're grabbing for money, after they ruin you financially/economically.

In one of the saddest stories of the year, a young woman was murdered after reporting a sexual assault.

This dear young girl, Isabella Scavelli, 17, filed a police report saying she had been sexually assaulted by an adult, Lenard White.

Here is a full report about the situation from Fox13News.

After Isabella and a family member made the police report, two known gang members came to their home.  Isabella answered a knock on the door.  Then she and another family member were shot.  The other family member survived, but Isabella did not. 

Four people have been charged with respect to Isabella's death.  Details are in the article linked above.

From that article:

"When you have a 17-year-old, and this particular victim, we have every reason to believe she was not engaged in any high-risk activity. She was a good kid with a very bright future and to see her life cut short is heart-wrenching to say the least. Words cannot even express it," the sheriff said.

I am also horrified by the way this girl was apparently targeted.  And I still wish the sheriff could refrain from valorizing victims.  Because he's inadvertently de-prioritizing and demonizing other victims.  Those who do engage in high-risk activities seem to deserve it when they get raped and murdered, or don't deserve to ask for help if they do get attacked, is the logical inference.

It's gross to use the unfairness of her situation, the hideous shame -- and frankly stupidity, of upgrading a rape charge to murder -- to throw other victims under the bus.

She does seem like a great kid.  She didn't deserve what happened to her -- and how devastating for the family members who witnessed it.  But nobody deserves what happened to her.  And the sheriff's statement sounds like he's not so bothered sometimes.

So the FBI has been sending me press releases about their initiative about the missing indigenous women.  I haven't looked into them because honestly, color me skeptical.

Osage Discussion Spotlights Positive Relationship Between FBI and Native Americans

For example, I haven't seen this movie yet.  I'm gearing up for it emotionally, how upsetting I'm afraid it will be.  But I've seen different Native people talking about it, film people.  So I believe it will be worth watching. 

But it just bugs me, the way the entertainment complex in America is rigged so directly with criminal justice.  It's so shameless and brazen, that they have so many open secrets, so many shallow graves, and they aren't going to do shit about any of it unless it goes viral on TikTok or Martin Scorcese does a movie.

This is a disturbing story, and an annoying one.  On the bright side, she seems to have been caught before too much damage was done to this kid's life.  She only interacted with him a few times and it was nipped in the bud.  She didn't have much physical access to him.

It bothers me every time adults sexually abuse children.  That's a large part of why I maintain this website and blog.

As a woman I can't understand why she would want a 15-year-old boy.  She's a very attractive woman who could easily get an 18 or 20-year-old man and have almost exactly the same experience, but better.  Just keeping it real. 

And to keep it even realer, I have to say that that experience would almost certainly be frustrating and boring.  Because I know people who are 15, 18, and 20 years old -- bless their hearts.  It's just weird to get naked with a 15-year-old boy.  He might not even have hair yet.  It's a sick mind game, exactly like with male molesters.

So it really annoys me, when anything like this happens, the inevitable chorus of men in the comments.  I encourage you to read the YouTube comments on this video and see for yourself the victim mentality, and the pure lack of information men have about sexual violence and the way  things play out in the criminal justice system in real life. 

They see guys occasionally getting prison time for "to Catch a Predator" type stings where there is no girl, and forget all about the many men who rape underage girls and also plea down to probation-only.  Justice is extremely uneven in America.  But it hardly favors women in sexual matters.

• Men believe that if the shoe were on the other foot, that if a male molester were caught with a 15-year-old girl, he'd go to prison for years!
• There's always the assertion that people don't think it's bad or harmful somehow if it's a woman abusing a boy.  But the only people who ever assert that are men.  I don't think I've ever met a woman who thinks this is anything but disgusting, whereas men find it sexy all the time.  I stopped watching Curb Your Enthusiasm when they did a "hot for teacher" episode.
• Adult men rape underage girls and get probation only through the miracle of plea bargaining all the time.  And then they go on to commit all kinds of violent crimes, go figure.  Somehow this goes unnoticed.
• Again, if you know of any women who think adult women having sex with underage boys is okay, please notify this author and I will look into it.

Daniel Holtzclaw is my classic example of not needing to hear the other side of the story, because someone's own version of events makes them sound guilty.

Robert DeNiro might be my new prime example, becuase holy mackerel.  I never heard anything about any of this, because I really don't care about celebrity gossip, movies, or whatever.  I like some of the movies he's in for obvious reasons.  But yuck, good Lord.  As a survivor some of this is so self-evident.

The Daily Beast

"While testifying last Tuesday, the actor denied her claims, calling them “nonsense.” His lawyers portrayed him as a victim of a woman scorned, alleging Robinson was looking to cause “drama and conflict.” He allowed, however, that he might have called Robinson a “bitch” and a “fucking spoiled brat” in instances where her behavior frustrated him.

“I berated her,” he said. “I wasn’t abusive. I was annoyed.”"

DARVO is a helpful acronym for a common tactic employed by abusive people when confronted with their bad behavior:  Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.  Above is a classic example.  "I berated her.  I called her a bitch and a fucking brat.  But that wasn't abusive.  I was annoyed.  That's just her being a woman scorned, and also she's a thief."   But then the court found that no, she wasn't a thief.

This is where it all goes off the rails.

"What’s more, Robinson testified, she was treated as De Niro’s “office wife,” subjected to “stereotypically female job duties” that were “inconsistent with her job title,” including scratching his back. (The actor acknowledged in court that he had made the back-scratching requests, adding, “You got me!”)

While De Niro’s team claimed Robinson left Canal after “suspicions arose” over her “honesty, integrity, work ethic and motivation,” the 41-year-old said in her countersuit that she’d been forced out by De Niro over escalating tensions with his girlfriend of five years, Tiffany Chen.
In emails to De Niro shown in court, Chen called Robinson “a mean, insecure, territorial girl” who had dreamed up a “demented imaginary intimacy” with him.
Questioned about her emails on the stand, Chen held little back. “She’s crazy,” she said, adding at various points that Robinson was “a hot mess,” “nuts,” and “psychotic.”

That last paragraph really comes across as pure projection, obvious on its face due to the context.  Robinson is complaining about being treated as an "office wife."  She doesn't like being asked to scratch his back, for example.  Being called a bitch or spoiled brat are overly personal.  What a great job she did of proving Robinson's case.  She and DeNiro are perfect for each other and Robinson is well out of there.  Pay the lady.