According to a report from the Boulder Daily Camera, Zachary Orion Roper, a former University of Colorado Boulder student accused of raping a female student after a sorority event last year has had his trial rescheduled for October. Roper, 21, is scheduled for a five-day trial starting October 19th on charges of
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Lyft driver Robert W. Sauvager was found guilty of sexual assault and battery and will spend 5 years in prison. Sauvager faced a sentence of 20 years, but had 15 years suspended after he plead guilty to aggravated sexual assault and battery. In November 2019, police say that Sauvager sexually assaulted a passenger
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Yahoo Finance reports on how the team at Estey & Bomberger is alarmed that Lyft, with its well documented sexual assault history and failure to address predatory drivers, is being given access to vulnerable women through a recently announced agreement with the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN). Lyft and RAINN
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The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Rimon Kazzoo, a Lyft driver in Chicago, was arrested on Wednesday, May 20th, and faces a felony count of criminal sexual assault in connection to an incident that occurred on the evening of December 5th, 2018. According to Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy, Kazzoo picked up the 26-year-old woman
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An article published by Bloomberg, reports that Uber Technologies Inc. must face negligence claims by a woman who says she mistakenly got into a car bearing the company’s windshield decal. The woman was subsequently raped by the driver. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Corley in San Francisco ruled on Friday, May 1, that the
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On Tuesday, April 28th, Gebrehiwot G. Gebriye, a Lyft driver in Salt Lake City, UT, was arrested for investigation of forcible sexual abuse on a female passenger. According to investigators the woman said that she had been out drinking with friends when she requested a ride to a home in Fontana. At
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On Tuesday, April 14, at 8:18 p.m. a 24-year-old female showed up at a residential security gate on Padaro Lane in Carpinteria, CA, saying she had just been forcibly raped. When Santa Barbara Sheriff Deputies arrived on the scene, they found the woman in the street. The woman told the deputies that
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The aftermath of sexual assault can be difficult for survivors in a number of ways, physically, emotionally, and financially. If your partner is a sexual assault survivor, you understand how difficult this recovery process can be. To best support your partner, it is important to practice kindness, compassion, and understanding each step
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People are making videos that mimic phone calls on TikTok to increase rider safety for when they get into an Uber or Lyft . The purpose of these videos is to help people, particularly women, feel safe in an Uber if they have to ride alone. These videos are brilliantly crafted, and are
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The San Francisco Public Press reports that on Thursday, March 12th, the California Public Utilities Commission unanimously voted to rescind an obscure footnote that granted sweeping confidentiality to safety reports that must be filed by Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing companies about accidents and assaults connected with their services across the state,
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