The conviction earlier this week of a former landlord in Columbus, Ohio, who sexually harassed a Black female tenant and coerced her into sexual favors in exchange for rent highlights the larger trend of sexual housing harassment against women of color.    Kevin Baker, 73, was sentenced to two years in prison on July 27 after […]
  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The identity of the female victim was not released. A statement released by Muskingum County’s Prosecutor’s Office shows that Baker used to make racist comments about her being Black and racial slurs like the N-word to refer to the victim.

    Comprehensive research on sexual harassment in housing is sparse. In one 2008 Georgia State University study found that 68% of the reported victims were Black while virtually all of the perpetrators were White men. The study’s author, Dr. Griff Tester, analyzed 137 housing sexual harassment complaints made to the Ohio Civil Rights Commission between 1990 and 2003.

    it is about race though.