What’s Current: Thousands of revenge porn images of women across UK shared online

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  • A free, public server was found sharing thousands of “revenge porn” images of women across the UK, indexed by location.
  • Edward Downey, a Calgary man convicted of killing a woman and her daughter in 2016, 34-year-old Sara Baillie and five-year-old Taliyah Marsman, will have no chance of parole for 50 years.
  • Timothy Jones, a divorced, South Carolina father who won sole custody of his five children is on trial for their 2014 murders, pleading not guilty by reason of insanity.
  • Mississippi state Rep. Doug McLeod was charged with domestic violence after punching his wife in the face because she “didn’t undress quickly enough” for sex.
  • Vonny LeClerc writes in The National about the lack of protections for women online, including inadequate police responses to harassment, stalking, and threats.
Natasha Chart

Natasha Chart is an online organizer and feminist living in the United States. She does not recant her heresy.