Jill saward who was the first rape victim to waive her right to anonymity has died at the age of 51. She was assaulted during a burglary at herfathers vicarage in ealing in west london in 1986. At the trial, the judge caused controversy when he said her suffering had been not so great. Jill saward went on to campaign on behalf of victims of Sexual Violence as well as help to train Police Officers and judges. Tonight the attorney Generaljeremy Wright said her tireless campaigning had helped ensure victims were now at the heart of the criminal justice system. Phil mackie looks back at her life. It is part of my past now, and when i talk about rape, it doesnt hurt me. The victim of what became known as the Ealing Vicarage rape, jill saward was just 21 when she was attacked by burglars, who broke into herfathers vicarage in ealing in west london. Tv newsreader the hunt for the vicarage rapists. The case was the focus of Massive Media attention, not least because the perpetrators of the rap
top story. two hours from now the writer behind a controversial rolling stone article on rain at the university of virginia is expected to apologize. sabrina rubin elderly wrote about an alleged gang rain at a campus security party their fraternity was shut down. it s since been reopened and soon there were serious questions about that reporting. police investigated they were not able to find proof of that gang rain happening that evening and they do say, though that that victim jackie likely may have been traumatized in another way. i spoke to the reporter of that article in november before the story began to fall apart. it s a situation where seemingly fraternities are calling the shot where sexual assault is rampant, where rain victims are afraid and discouraged from forward by both
paranoid enough, right? to me the nsa is just the tip of the iceberg and i m glad we all know about it right now. because we ve opened our eyes a little bit. but a greater threat to me and my friends and family really are the data brokers out there selling list of erectile sufferers and rain victims for seven cents a piece. so i think we ve started to open our eyes and our world is in a better place and that s going to help us all. you might notice she is wearing sunglasses and she says it s because of facial recognition. she is very paranoid. she is very well respected in the hacker community. and her app is legit, founded $30 million recently by get this, the lead investor in facebook. so if that doesn t say anything, i don t know what does. she says we re not paranoid enough. right. laurie segall, thank you so much. thank you. drivers got an unexpected fireworks show sunday afternoon after a fire broke out outside a warehouse outside of knoxville, tennessee. take a look.
complicated for average user. and this new encryption softwa software. when i first started covering start-ups, wlaz the hot new app? now i m getting all these pitches for encryption apps. what the snowden revelations really did. i spoke to a hacker who created an app called wicker that completely protects your communications. and i asked her what the snowden revolutions did for the community. listen to what she said. i think it was the best thing that s ever happened to society. i still don t think we re paranoid enough. to me the nsa is just the tip of the iceberg. and i m glad we know about it right now. because we ve opened our eyes a little bit. but greater threat to me and my friends and family are data brokers selling records of the sufferers and rain victims for 7 cents a piece. and we ve opened our eyes and the world is a safer place.
piece of which is avoiding, so-called, todd akin moments. the new head of the nrsc saying the todd akin campaigns of the last election cycle, quote, not only infected themselves, they infected all the rest of the campaigns. so they will be training senate candidates now not to say creepy things about forcing rain victims to bear their rapist s child. the basic idea here is that social issues are not the party s future. social issues are the republican party s past, not the future. and that does seem to be what pretty much everybody think, at least in the beltway that is the common wisdom diagnosis. the problem is it s really not what is going on in the party outside the beltway. i mean, take the marquee social issue of gay rights on which the republican party is supposedly having this big change of heart, right? there is definitely sufficient evidence to justify the kind of headlines we ve seen recently about the republican party diversifying its previously uniformly anti-gay stance. b