Donna Rotunno, in a New York Times interview, essentially victim-blamed any woman who's been sexually assaulted.
Harvey Weinstein’s defense attorney, Donna Rotunno, has never been sexually assaulted because she never put herself in “any vulnerable circumstance,” she told a New York Times podcast that aired Friday.
“I’ve always made choices from college-age on, where I never drank too much, I never went home with someone that I didn’t know — I just never put myself in any vulnerable circumstance, ever,” she said. “I think men also need to be very clear about their intentions. If I was a man in today’s world, before I was engaging in sexual behavior with any woman, today, I would ask them to sign a consent form,” Rotunno said.
It’s not uncommon for defense attorneys in high-profile cases to make bold or sometimes bizarre statements. During the sentencing of Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics Olympic doctor who is spending life in prison on child sex abuse charges, defense attorney Shannon Smith told a radio station she believed the hundreds of survivors who came forward were simply confused and weren’t actually abused by Nassar.
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