A prominent transgender advocate known for working with Pennsylvania Democrats, including campaigning alongside Gov. Josh Shapiro, has been charged with raping two young boys.
Kendall Stephens, 37, was arrested and charged Monday with a host of offenses, including two counts of rape; indecent assault against a person less than 13 years old; unlawful contact with a minor/sexual offenses; corruption of minors, and child endangerment, according to police.
Philadelphia Officer Tanya Little said that the special victims’ unit launched an investigation after receiving reports of “previous sexual assaults on two minor children in September 2023.”
Both victims were young boys, as reported by WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, citing police sources.
The Philadelphia Municipal Court judge set bail at $250,000. The suspect’s next appearance is scheduled for Dec. 29.
Ms. Stephens, a biological male who identifies as a woman, rose to prominence in Philadelphia politics as an advocate for transgender rights after being attacked during a home invasion in August 2020, that was charged as a hate crime.
In April, Ms. Stephens shared the stage with Democratic state legislators at a rally in support of the Fairness Act, which added “sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression” to anti-discrimination laws.
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NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 27: Bill Gates and Warren Buffett speak with journalist Charlie Rose at an event organized by Columbia Business School on January 27, 2017 in New York City. Gates and Buffett spoke on a range of topics including their friendship, business, philanthropy, global health, innovation, and leadership. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
A government and corporate watchdog group filed a complaint Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission against Berkshire Hathaway in connection with the arrest of the group’s chairman at a shareholder meeting for raising issues linking the names of Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Jeffrey Epstein.
National Legal and Policy Center Chairman Peter Flaherty spoke at a shareholder meeting in May in support of a resolution requiring Berkshire Hathaway to have two different people hold the jobs of CEO and chairman of the board. Buffett currently holds both positions.
When Flaherty brought up Buffett’s financial support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he noted that Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, had traveled with Epstein, a convicted sex offender.
At that point, Buffett called for Flaherty’s ouster from the meeting, and Flaherty was arrested and charged with criminal trespass by police in Omaha, Nebraska, even though his name was on the list of attendees for the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting.
Berkshire Hathaway, a multinational conglomerate holding company, is based in Omaha.
Police detained Flaherty for about three hours. He waited, not in a cell, but on a bench with others who had been arrested. He paid a bond of $2,500 to be released. Nebraska prosecutors dropped the charges shortly after the arrest.
“The almost instantaneous silencing of Mr. Flaherty at the very mention of Epstein obviously struck a nerve with the public that transcends political ideology, underscoring the widely held belief that the rich and powerful play by a different set of rules than ordinary citizens,” says the SEC complaint filed by NLPC counsel Paul Kamenar.
A news helicopter from Philadelphia crashed Tuesday night in a heavily wooded area of Burlington County, killing the pilot and a photographer, WPVI’s news station, 6ABC, said on its website early Wednesday.
“We know that a pilot and a photographer from our news team went down with Chopper 6 while returning from an assignment at the Jersey Shore,” the news station said.
The crash occurred shortly after 8 p.m. near Quaker Bridge Atsion Road and Mullica Hill Road, a section of Wharton State Forest in Washington Township.
The helicopter was a 2013 American Eurocopter AS-350A-STAR, which 6abc leases from U.S. Helicopters Inc. based in North Carolina, the news station said.
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