Jane Manning
Bio:
Jane Manning began her career as a prosecutor, specializing in cases of domestic violence, child abuse, and sex crimes. In private practice, she provided pro bono representation to a coalition of battered women’s organizations. She then joined the international human rights organization Equality Now, where she coordinated a successful campaign for a strong and comprehensive law against human trafficking in New York State. She currently serves as Legislative Vice President of the National Organization for Women’s New York City chapter, where she has pursued successful campaigns to repeal the statute of limitations on rape cases and to criminalize strangulation attacks in New York State.
Jane Manning is a WMC SheSource expert in Child Abuse, Criminal Law, and Social Justice.
Robin on children, mothers, and borders; Trump under pressure; Sally Hemmings; and giant Sequoias. Guests: former prosecutor Jane Manning on Harvey Weinstein's trial; Daisy Khan on Muslim American women's leadership. Plus, Surrealism Corner.
Robin on Comey's testimony, Reality Winner's leak, and what everyone overlooks but Trump fears most. Guests: former prosecutor Jane Manning on drug-facilitated rape and the Cosby trial; physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on "the physics of melanin."
The author, a former sex crimes prosecutor, points out that true reports of rape are all too common, false reports of rape are rare but they exist, and good investigations can tell them apart.