The Nassau County DA is demanding her election foe condemn a Democratic ally’s decade-old law-school paper that mentioned girls might fabricate rape claims to cover their promiscuity or as a fantasy.
GOP DA Anne Donnelly has mentioned her Dem opponent in November, Nicole Aloise, must disavow the paper written by fellow Democrat and county Legislator Seth Koslow, who’s working for county government.
“As somebody who has spent many years prosecuting violent criminals, together with rapists, I do know firsthand the braveness it takes for a survivor to come back ahead,” Donnelly informed The Submit.
She known as Koslow’s writings in his 2013 legislation article on rape-shield statutes and social media “disqualifying” and “anti-woman.’’
The DA mentioned he has “no enterprise serving in public workplace” due to them and that something wanting condemnation from Aloise is “unacceptable.”
“Anybody looking for to be Nassau County District Lawyer should make it clear that rhetoric like this — rhetoric that might discourage girls from reporting rape — has no place in our neighborhood,” Donnelly mentioned.
“Nicole Aloise should condemn Seth Koslow, rebuke his disgusting anti-woman feedback, and make it clear that she won’t tolerate this type of rhetoric,’’ the DA mentioned.
“The ladies of Nassau County deserve nothing much less.’’
Aloise’s marketing campaign has up to now refused to distance herself from Koslow.
A rep for Koslow, a former prosecutor-turned-criminal protection lawyer earlier than taking workplace, mentioned the passages in query had been all cited arguments from different sources, not a manifesto of his private beliefs, and he accused Republicans of weaponizing an instructional paper for political acquire.
Aloise mentioned Donnelly is the one failing survivors.
The Dem DA hopeful pointed to an enormous spike in reported native sexual assaults and the shuttering of the SAFE Middle — Nassau’s solely nonprofit serving victims of sexual abuse, which closed underneath her watch due to an absence of county funding.
“The actual check for a district lawyer is retaining Nassau County protected — however underneath Donnelly, rape is up 130%, and she or he’s botched circumstances and let sexual predators go free on Lengthy Island,” mentioned Ellen McCormick, Aloise’s marketing campaign supervisor, to The Submit.
Koslow’s marketing campaign additionally dismissed the assaults in opposition to him as “bulls–t” and mentioned the controversial strains are being ripped out of context.
The 30–web page article, printed in The Touro Legislation Overview whereas Koslow was nonetheless a legislation pupil on the faculty, argued rape defend guidelines had swung “to the intense” in opposition to defendants and ought to be reformed to permit social media proof in courtroom, based on a replica obtained by The Submit.
The main focus of Koslow’s article examined how he believed courts ought to deal with the collision between rape defend statutes and the explosion of social media on the time.
However his marketing campaign and political allies harassed it was a college paper and his purpose was by no means to decrease survivors of sexual assault.
“[Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman] will do something to cowl up his administration’s full and utter failure together with fully distorting Seth Koslow’s writings from over a decade in the past, when he was a legislation pupil — to distract from his personal file of turning his again on susceptible girls,” Nassau County Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs mentioned on Koslow’s behalf Monday.
However the article’s resurfacing has already triggered an uproar within the county, together with partly due to a brand new TV advert that includes the sisters of 21-year-old murder-rape sufferer Sarah Goode unloading on Koslow for the article.
The advert was paid for by Koslow’s Republican opponent, Blakeman.
