Category: lawsuit
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Lyft Releases Long-Awaited Safety Report, Documenting Over 4,000 Sexual Assault Cases
Lyft has finally published its long-overdue safety report, revealing more than 4,000 cases of sexual assault reported between 2017 and 2019. The report shows a 65 percent increase in sexual assaults during that period. However, Lyft maintains that serious safety incidents remain statistically rare despite the rise in numbers. Although the incidents of sexual assault…
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Uber driver is arrested for second-degree rape of his passenger in Charlotte, North Carolina
According to the Matthews Police Department, they’ve arrested an Uber driver for sexually assaulting a passenger. The incident accorded around 5:58am on Oct. 15. The female victim said that she was traveling home in an Uber driven by 45-year-old, Vicente Diaz-Gomez, when he began to sexually assault her. The police responded to Novant-Matthews Hospital where…
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Man Who Posed as Uber Driver to Kidnap and Rape Women Sentenced to 41 Years in Prison
A 28-year-old man from Cleveland, Chistian Burks, was sentenced to 41 years in prison after posing as an Uber driver to kidnap and then rape multiple women. As Cleveland.com previously reported, Burks would pose as an Uber driver in order to abduct women standing outside of busy restaurants in the city’s Warehouse District. Burks was…
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Man from Springfield found guilty of rape after pretending to be an Uber driver pretended to be an Uber driver found guilty of rape
Earlier this week, a man from Springfield, Illinois was found guilty of first-degree rape and sodomy. Back in the fall of 2018, 38-year-old Tyson Fairley was arrested and charged with the 2 counts after he pretended to be an Uber driver and sexually assaulted women he picked up from Downtown Springfield who were intoxicated. The…
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Rideshare Rape Case Sent to the Lee County Grand Jury by Judge
A rideshare driver from Opelika was in court on Wednesday for a probable cause hearing after he picked up 2 female passengers in downtown Auburn and was accused of sexually assaulting them. Theodore Leroy Halls, 46 was involved in the felony rape case that is headed to a Lee County Grand Jury in order for…
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Man from Rhode Island charged after admitting to sexually assaulting 2 teenage girls after posing as an Uber driver
A man from Woonsocket admitted while in federal court that he had coerced and sexually assauletd 2 teenage girls while also filming them years ago. Francis Scott, 41, while in the U.S. District Court pleaded guilty to 2 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, and 1 count of possessing child pornography after sexually assaulting 2…
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Former Uber driver found not guilty of sexual assaulting a passenger
KITCHENER – A Kitchener judge has found a former Uber driver not guilty of sexually assaulting and choking a female passenger in Waterloo in 2018. Issa Affan,42, was on trial for sexual assault causing bodily harm, forcible confinement, choking to overcome resistance, and uttering threats in relation to an incident in February of that year. Justice…