Billie Winner-Davis, Reality Winner's mother, told Business Insider on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is attempting legal representation to aid the former Air Force language analyst contractor and Kingsville native Reality Winner with her case.
Winner pleaded guilty in 2018 to leaking classified National Security Agency information on Russia's alleged efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. She was found guilty of violating the U.S. Espionage Act and sentenced to five years in prison at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
In 2016 following her separation from six years of active duty, Winner was hired by Pluribus International Corporation under an NSA contract to work out of Fort Gordon, Georgia.
According to ABC News, Winner printed a classified report detailing how Russian hackers allegedly “executed cyber espionage operations” on local election systems and mailed the documents to The Intercept.
She was arrested on June 3, 2017.
Amazing! Thank you. My daughter Reality Leigh Winner is yet another victim of this admin. Doing hard time for bringing the truth to light. #FreeRealityWinnerhttps://t.co/wU0sg3LeRs
Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign violations and tax fraud in 2018, began serving his sentence in May 2019 at the federal penitentiary in Otisville, New York.
He has been under house arrest since July over coronavirus concerns.
Military.com stated that Reality’s mother sent a Twitter message that said “Cohen has asked another attorney to look at the case and for opportunities to help.”
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Victims as young as six are being sexually abused
May 27, 2008
The aid organization 'Save The Children' reports victims as young as six are being routinely sexually abused by the very people sent to protect them.
One 13-year old girl is recovering from her own gang rape by, she says, ten Pakistani UN Peace-keepers.
"They grabbed me and threw me on the ground," she said. "They left me there bleeding."
The UN has six-thousand soldiers on peacekeeping operations in the Ivory Coast. There are up to 200-thousand serving around the world.
The alleged perpetrators - which include aid workers - are a small minority
But the problem has been well reported as far back as 2002.
"It ranges from anything from sex for food through to coerced sex. And it really is despicable that it is allowed to carry on by this minority of people and brings the whole of the humanitarian response community into disrepute."
The report looked at two additional post-conflict areas: southern Sudan and Haiti.
In the case of the Ivory Coast teen, a village elder said:
"Now several months have passed and our complaints about this appalling rape have been completely ignored."
The United Nations says it is committed to tackling the problem but that it is impossible to ensure zero incidents.
Save the children is suggesting a global watchdog be established to combat the abuse. It also says children need to feel safe enough to report abuse without fear of repercussions.
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