A woman who accused Bob Dylan of sexually abusing her in 1965, when she was 12 years old, on Thursday withdrew her lawsuit. The anonymous plaintiff, identified only as J.C., asked for a permanent dismissal the day following the singer’s legal team claimed she’d destroyed key evidence. “This case is over. It is outrageous that it was ever brought in the first place,” Dylan’s lead attorney said in an emailed statement to Billboard. “We are pleased that the plaintiff has dropped this lawyer-driven sham and that the case has been dismissed with prejudice.” The woman, who alleged Dylan abused her over a six-week period at the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, was herself accused of “irretrievably” compromising the integrity of her claims by deleting messages, whose contents have not been made public. After the complaint was filed last summer, Dylan’s lawyers were quick to label it a “brazen shakedown masquerading as a lawsuit.”
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La Molina: young man was raped and raped by a subject he met on a dating app | Society
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
A young man has reported to the authorities a subject who, through a dating application, seduced him, raped him and sexually violated him inside his home in La Molina. The victim indicated that he not only abused him, but also took all his belongings.
“He wrote me on the dating app, told me to meet up. I agreed, but he insisted that he wanted to bring some drinks. He came to my house with a bottle of wine and a six pack of beers. We were talking, he seemed to be a trustworthy person, but then when he asked me to borrow the bathroom, I started to fall asleep and I don’t remember anything else. I woke up naked on my bed without my wallet, my cards, my cell phone, and without some valuables from my home,” he told ATV Noticias.
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He also stated that thanks to a friend he was able to go to the police station where he reported the incident and, following passing the corresponding tests, they confirmed that he had been a victim of sexual abuse.
“On Monday I only became aware of what had happened to me, it took everything. My cards, which had a credit of more than 10,000 soles, a new cell phone. But none of that is going to make up for what he did to me. I was a victim of sexual abuse, ”she specified.
Finally, he said that The PNP managed to stop her attacker, who was celebrating that same night on the pizza street in Miraflores.
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“According to what Dirincri informed me, he had a lot of ‘weaponry’: 12 POS, other people’s cards. They are already carrying out the corresponding investigations (…) What they told me is that they contacted the other victims and they had all filed a complaint regarding the case”, he reiterated.
Recommendations to avoid dating app scams
The cybersecurity company WatchGuard has put together a list of tips to avoid online scams. For them, if the person behind the screen is very insistent to know where you work, live or if you are alone in your house, it might be that it is a criminal.
Another suggestion is not to use work profiles in these applications, as this information might be compromised by criminals.
Passwords from social networks should not be shared either, since these are often also used in cards or other accounts.
Boy who was abused by four men and infected with HIV dies in Bolivia | International
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
After a week in hospital, the 11-year-old boy who was abused and raped on several occasions by four men who were his neighbors in Bolivia died. One of the alleged attackers, aged 28, died last year as a result of HIV.
The 11-year-old boy who was abused by four men who infected him with HIV died Saturday at a hospital in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, where he had been admitted to intensive care a week ago.
The director of the Departmental Health Service (Headquarters) of Santa Cruz, Edwin Viruez, confirmed to local media the death of the minor, who had entered a coma the day before, the agency reported. EFE.
“The condition and health situation was very critical,” Viruez lamented and expressed his condolences to the minor’s family.
The commander of the Special Force to Fight Violence (FELCV) of Santa Cruz, Carlos Oporto, pointed out that the minor entered a coma and presented two cardiac arrests, “the doctors managed to revive him in the first, and in the second they did not resisted.”
Porto said that this case has the “aggravating circumstance of rape and now death” of the minor and that the authorities “already have the evidence” to “incorporate greater aggravating factors” for the sanction of this type of crime.
President of Bolivia expresses condolences and says that there can be no impunity
The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, affirmed that this case “cannot go unpunished” while expressing his condolences.
“We express our deepest pain for the departure of the little boy in Yapacaní. This tragic outcome cannot go unpunished, it is inconceivable to accept so much evil once morest an innocent child. To his family, all the support and our deepest condolences, ”Arce wrote on his social networks.
The case was only known until this past weekend, following the minor’s mother asked for justice for her son, following suffering the constant violations of four men who were brothers and were his neighbors and who had threatened him.
Last year the minor was diagnosed with the disease and in this situation he himself recounted the harassment he suffered from the four men whom he identified.
Two of the alleged aggressors are minors, 15 and 17 years old, and the other two are 23 and 28 years old. The latter passed away last year from HIV.
Neighbors lynch one of the accused
Last Wednesday, a group of neighbors from the town of Yapacaní, where the boy was from, came excited to the court where one of the alleged 23-year-old abusers was, they overtook the Police, took the man out and beat him .
The accused was rescued by the Police and sent to the Palmasola prison in Santa Cruz, the most conflictive in the country, with a preventive detention of 180 days while the investigations are carried out.
The other apprehended, who is a minor, was referred to a children’s court and will be detained at the Cenvicruz rehabilitation center, according to information from the Ministry of Justice.
While the third accused, also a minor, is a fugitive and they believe that he may be in Chile, for which the authorities will take the necessary steps to activate the migratory alerts.
Wermelskirchen abuse complex: Marcus R. (44) testified for 4 days | Regional
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Köln – The main suspect in the Wermelskirchen abuse complex, Marcus R. (44), apparently helped the investigators to clarify the crimes.
His defense attorney, Cologne lawyer Christian Lange, reported on Friday that he quickly confessed to the allegations following his arrest and admitted to further actions beyond the arrest warrant.
Marcus R lived in this newly built house in Wermelskirchen. It was here that a special task force arrested him
Photo: Jörg Löbker
His client also helped identify other people he had contact with. In February he was questioned for four days and filmed. In doing so, he supported the police investigations and helped to solve cases beyond his own responsibility.
According to the lawyer, he assumes that his client’s cooperation is a significant contribution to the success of the investigation. His client had sexually abused young children. “He is responsible for this and he knows that a long prison sentence awaits him, rightly so,” says a press release.
Abuse of incredible dimensions
According to the investigators, the new abuse complex in Wermelskirchen – located between Cologne and Wuppertal – has a dimension of brutality that exceeds that of other crime complexes.
The main accused Marcus R. from Wermelskirchen offered his services as a babysitter on the Internet and was thus able to approach his victims. He also exchanged child pornographic images and videos of “unimaginable brutality” with dozens of other men.
So far, 73 suspects and 33 victims have been identified, investigators reported on Monday. The youngest child was one month old. Marcus R., who has no criminal record, is said to have abused twelve children himself – ten boys and two girls – in the greater Cologne area. He is charged with 18 acts of abuse.