NOW-NY urges special session to close voluntary intoxication loophole

Gov. Hochul unlikely to call special session to reexamine state rape law

ALBANY, N.Y. (News10) - A growing number of advocacy organizations are calling on New York Governor Kathy Hochul to initiate a special session that would force lawmakers to consider a bill that would amend the state's sexual assault and rape law. "You think they'd have more concern, but they don't," Gary Greenberg, the CEO of [...]

Close the Victim-Blaming Loophole the Cornell Seven Exposed

Ten years ago, Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Stanford University student and swimmer Brock Turner to six months in county jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster at a frat party. He served three months. Feminists didn’t just get angry—we organized. Two years later, we recalled Persky with nearly 62 percent of the vote. Now the same crisis has arrived at Cornell. It is time to organize again. Under New York penal law, a…

Petition calls on Hochul to call emergency session to close rape loophole amid Cornell allegations

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A petition is circulating calling on New York state leaders to call for an “extraordinary session” to close what advocates describe as an “intoxication loophole” in the law after a former Cornell University student filed a lawsuit alleging she was gang-raped.

NOW-NY urges special session to close voluntary intoxication loophole

Sonia Ossorio spoke about the issue.