Judge: Fired Fox Anchor Must Face Revenge Porn Suit

The Daily Beast reports:

Disgraced former Fox News anchor Ed Henry’s motion to dismiss allegations that he violated New York’s so-called “revenge porn” statute against his sexual assault accuser was rejected by a federal judge this week.

U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams also ruled that ex-Fox associate producer Jennifer Eckhart’s accusation of sex trafficking against Henry could continue.

Weeks after Henry was fired from Fox News in July 2020, following a complaint of “willful sexual misconduct in the workplace,” Eckhart filed a brutal lawsuit alleging the veteran reporter raped her and “performed sadistic acts on her without her consent that left her injured, bruised and battered with bloody wrists.”

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After a former Fox News associate producer filed a lawsuit accusing disgraced former Fox News anchor Ed Henry of sexual assault, his legal team included 15 explicit photos of her in the public docket. https://t.co/ZlIlSRxMb9

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