What better way to identify and arrest child pornography enthusiasts using a so-called “Dark Web” site, surmised the FBI, than to pose as the site’s administrator? Some of our readers might not be familiar with the Dark Web, which can be loosely described as a secretive Internet within the Internet availed of by users such…
Who’s the victim here? In raising that question, two guest commentators in a recent media article discussing acts of sexual abuse committed by Catholic clergy members readily answer it at the same time. And, in fact, with another question. “Why must the true victims — the victims of sexual assault — be haunted by their…
“[S]haring a library with your rapist can make it hard to learn.” Now that is a sentence that is bound to induce a bit of reflection for any reader confronting it, which is certainly the intention of two young women who recently penned a national article chronicling the widespread problem of sexual assault committed against…
David Ring talked to KESQ/CBS2 and The Desert Sun about a sex abuse settlement involving the Desert Sands Unified School District. Taylor & Ring represents another victim suing the school district in a civil lawsuit stemming from sex crimes allegedly committed by a 4th grade teacher. Robert Keith Bryan is charged with molesting 8 children…
“[J]ustice and closure.” We use those words on a page of our website at the Los Angeles personal injury law firm of Taylor & Ring, employing them in the context of what must centrally happen in the aftermath of any sex-based crime. Although closure for any crime victim is obviously of utmost importance, it can…
Violence against children is always a topic that rightly commands front-page news attention in media outlets across California and the rest of the country, given the sheer vulnerability of adolescents and the corresponding need to spotlight the wrongs committed against them. In no realm is that truer than with acts of sexual abuse committed against…
“Kids need a safe place to be and someone who cares about them. Now why should that be so hard?” Thus queries a seasoned Los Angeles Police Department veteran, an officer who heads the LAPD unit that focuses upon identification and eradication of child sexual exploitation. Lt. Andre Dawson’s posed question is eminently straightforward and…
There is a definite focus on vulnerability in several new California laws that were passed last year and took legal effect on January 1. We are confident that our readers across Southern California will routinely applaud that focus and attendant effort of state legislators to protect individuals who are at the greatest risk of being…
Filmmakers in Los Angeles have examined virtually every conceivable subject under the sun over the years, with no topic seemingly being taboo. And now the focus has in a very literal sense turned in on Hollywood and the movie industry itself, and in a manner that is anything but salutary or self-congratulatory. The subject matter…
It’s likely hard — in fact, insuperably difficult — for readers of our blog to contemplate what goes through the mind of a victim of sexual assault, unless, of course, they have been victimized themselves. For purposes of today’s post, we focus on the aftermath of such heinous behavior, specifically, the inability of a victim…