State of Ohio LOSES CASE against a RAPE VICTIM!
WHAT NOW? . . . . .

***STOP PROMOTING GENDER VIOLENCE:

By Matt Westerhold December 17, 2021

Sandusky Register, Sandusky, Ohio USA

For weeks, the news team asked Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost why he sought felony charges against a woman after she reported being coerced into a sexual relationship with a man she viewed as her superior in the workplace.

A report of the investigation of her complaint seemed obviously — and severely — flawed. It started with her as the victim, but turned on her. She became the suspect. Inspector Gadget, or Deputy Barney Fife could have determined this was a bad call, a terribly bad call.
Evidence that supported the woman's claim was ignored; weaker evidence was inexplicably promoted as better despite clear and obvious shortcomings. There was an agenda, of some kind, and it became the state attorney general's agenda, a horrible mismanagement of right and wrong.

Yost went all in. When no other prosecutor in the state would take that terribly flawed investigation to a grand jury, he did, and in the process wasted tens of thousands in taxpayer funds without ever explaining why it was so important to him to pursue the prosecution of a woman who reported a possible sex crime.

Victims are particularly vulnerable and the attorney general's actions in this case promote sex crimes and sexual harassment in the workplace. If the Ohio attorney general is this ignorant about gender violence what hope should any victim of it ever have of getting justice?

As he pursued a conviction and a prison sentence against the woman with so little true and actual evidence, the message Yost sent all victims of gender violence was clear: Shut up and suffer in silence. Ohio does not care.

Yost and Ohio's top law enforcement officials did what men who sexually assault women do quite frequently: intimidate victims by claiming they wanted to be sexually assaulted, that they are too unstable to be believed or that they are lying and should be sent to prison.

This was not in the best interest of taxpayers. It was not in the best interest of community members opposed to sexual violence, sexual harassment and other power dynamic violations of law and common decency.

By pursuing this case with so little actual evidence or intellectual gravitas, Yost wasn't advocating for victims. No, not victims. He was advocating for ignorance about sexual violence and sexual harassment. He was promoting the exact thing he should be fighting.

A judge on Wednesday dismissed their case in a scathing rebuke.

Yost owes everyone a full explanation and continuing to ignore questions about this is simply incompetent. He and his chief prosecutor, Carol O'Brien, also must act to lessen the damage they have inflicted. They must commit to train themselves and their staff in best practices for identifying and investigating gender violence and seek effective statewide training for law enforcement in those best practices."-Sandusky Register