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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
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Virginia’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,...

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