Updated, with a comment from Euckhart: Federal News judge rejected a sexual assault claim that a former employee filed against the former bodies Ed Henry.
American boycott judge, Rooney Abrams, rejected the revenge of Jennifer Eckhart and other claims. Eckhart, former network assistant product, claimed that Henry was raped and raped.
The judge wrote: “Fox News had no actual notice of Henry's alleged misconduct towards her until I first informed her to the network through her lawyer on June 25, 2020 – after three years from the last sexual meeting.” “As soon as the network finally learned of his behavior, its response was the opposite of forgiveness: He was quickly investigated and ended after six days.”
Read the judge's dismissal from Fox News from Ed Henry's suit.
Henry, who is now working in newsmax, claimed that sexual relations with Eckhart were mutual consent.
The judge also refused to demand pornography against Henry, but he denied his request to submit calls for violence, sexual assault, battery, sex trafficking and harassment. The trial is scheduled to start on May 12.
The judge wrote: “While a reasonable jury can conclude that Eckhart agreed to some or all of its sexual activity, this may also be concluded,” the judge wrote. “In her deposit, Eckhart saw at length that Henry forced her to engage in sexual activity without her consent, and on three separate occasions.”
The judge was martyred in three cases in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
“We look forward to holding Mr. Henry accountable in front of the jury, and we intend to appeal the decision in terms of his connection with Fox News in a timely manner,” Eckhart lawyers said in a statement.
Eckhart said in a statement: “While I am grateful because the court has realized the need for a jury to hear my demands against the rapist of Ed Henry, this battle is greater than me. Dared to speak. “
Henry's lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
As part of his defense, Henry argued that Eckhart sent sexually charged messages before and after the accidents. But the judge wrote that such questions should be left to the jury.
The judge wrote: “The jury may find that the text messages for Eckhart – which was sexually explicit – witnessed that it did not follow or agree to the sexual interactions that it had with Henry. But achieving this credibility falls directly within the province of the jury, and the court may not wander around it at this stage.”
Al -Qadi added: “There is no evidence that Eckahart's assertion that the three sexual accidents were unusual. Certainly, she admits to sending sexual messages and images that the jury can explain as an invitation to sexual relations with Henry. … But these messages can be read in other ways as well. For example, the reasonable jury can find that the eckhart has voluntarily sent some messages to be friendly, or even Ghazali, and yet he did not Approval of the violent sexual confrontations that followed.
The judge also indicated that the record included evidence that Henry was “harassment and even assaulted other colleagues, including one incident where he digitally penetrated a woman under a table without her consent. The reasonable jury can believe these accounts and conclude that Henry participated in similar misconduct with Eckhart.”
Fox News Henry ended on July 1, 2020, after an investigation into a law firm and found that Eckhart and Henry had participated in the communications between 2014 and 2017, and they were the three sexual meetings. This included the September 2015 incident in which Ickhart made an oral sex on Henry at the Fox News office.
ECKHART was expelled from Fox News in June 2020, while the network said it was due to the delay, the royal graphics package was revealed and the company's resources are embezzled.
Eckhart claimed that Fox News knew that Henry was harassing other women in the network, which should have warned the executives that he might do the same with her. But the judge wrote, “No reasonable jury can find Fox News responsible based on this evidence. For beginners, although Fox News ultimately learned about Henry's affairs outside the framework of marriage, but she did not know many of them even after the final ECKHART and Henry in 2017.”
