Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years

Ana Murguia remembers the day the man she had regarded as a hero called her house and summoned her to see him. She walked along a dirt trail, entered the rundown building, passed his secretary and stepped into his office.

He locked the door, as he always did when he called her, and told her how lonely he had been. He brought her onto the yoga mat that he often used in his office for meditation, kissed her and pulled her pants down. “Don’t tell anyone,” he told her afterward. “They’d get jealous.”

The man, Cesar Chavez, one of the most revered figures in the Latino civil rights movement, was 45. She was 13. Ms. Murguia said she was summoned for sexual encounters with him dozens of times over the next four years.

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Crown stays charges against self-proclaimed ‘Queen of Canada’ Romana Didulo

Canada Competing Monarchs – Queen Didulo or King Charles? You Decide!

Crown prosecutors have stayed the charges against a cult leader whose group occupied a former school in a southwest Saskatchewan village.

Romana Didulo was set to appear in Swift Current provincial court on Wednesday.

Didulo, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Canada,” was charged with failing to comply with an undertaking and intimidating a justice system participant.

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Doug Ford praises homeowner who shot man during home invasion: ‘These guys, they need to be shot’

Premier Doug Ford has applauded the Vaughan homeowner who shot one of four masked intruders breaking into his home early Tuesday morning, saying more people need to defend themselves with guns.

“Congratulations for shooting this guy — should have shot him a couple more times, as far as I’m concerned,” said Ford, responding to a reporter’s question Wednesday during an appearance in Kenilworth, in southwestern Ontario.

“These guys, they need to be shot,” he said.

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