Latest allegations of sexual assault show how the legal system discourage victims from coming forward
- Written by Alesha Durfee, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University
shutterstockVirginia’s Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax is refusing to resign after denying charges by two women who have said that he sexually assaulted them.
The first woman to come forward was Vanessa Tyson, a politics professor at Scripps College. She initially contacted The Washington Post after Fairfax’s election in December 2017,...
