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Ex-candidate faces

‘revenge porn’ counts

A former candidate for a seat

in Virginia’s House of Delegates

has been charged with crimes

commonly characterized as

“revenge porn.”

Sheila Bynum-Coleman was

indicted monday in Henrico

County on two misdemeanor

counts alleging she

disseminated nude photos of a

woman, news outlets reported.

Bynum-Coleman took issue

with that characterization of the

case in a phone call with the

richmond Times-Dispatch, and

then said she did not want to

comment.

Last year she tried but failed

to unseat republican Kirk Cox,

who was House speaker at the

time.

Virginia laws says it is illegal

to disseminate photos or video

of a person in a state of undress

with the intent to coerce or

intimidate.

Authorities said Bynum-

Coleman obtained nude photos

of the victim and showed them

to the woman’s supervisor.

Special prosecutor robert

Cerullo, who was appointed to

handle the case, said Bynum-

Coleman told the victim’s boss

that the photos were taken at

work and on company time. He

said it’s unclear what Bynum-

Coleman’s motive was.

Cerullo also said that Bynum-

Coleman posted copies of the

nude photos to a stop sign near

the woman’s job.

Bynum-Coleman, 47, is a

Democrat who lives in

Chesterfield.

— Associated Press

maryland

Dog rescued from

garbage incinerator

A Baltimore worker operating

a trash-loading machine rescued

a severely injured dog after the

animal fell 30 feet into a

garbage incinerator.

The front-end-loader operator

noticed something moving

among the piles of debris,

stopped his machine and

jumped into the trash to save

what turned out to be a

critically injured dog, Baltimore

Animal rescue and Care Shelter

said in a statement Wednesday.

The dog was taken to the

shelter, where veterinarians

found he was covered in trash,

unable to walk and suffering

from multiple cuts and

puncture wounds, according to

Animal rescue.

The center named him Donut,

and he has since been

recovering, Bailey Deacon, a

spokeswoman for the shelter,

told the Baltimore Sun.

“When he came into our

shelter he was so helpless,”

Deacon said. “He just sat on the

exam room floor folded over in

a little lump. Whenever a hand

or face got close to his, he just

wanted to lick it. ”

Deacon said it is unclear

whether someone placed the

dog into the trash chute or the

animal crawled into the chute

himself.

— Associated Press

new paid, sick leave policy that

gives workers time accrued with

seniority.

“A nd we’re hoping all

corporate restaurants will follow

suit,” Advincula said.

“The quicker we adopt

mandatory sick leave, the

quicker we’ll stop the spread of

this,” he said.

on Capitol Hill, leaders who

have always worked toward

family and sick leave have been

double-timing it.

“We are the only industrialized

country in the world that doesn’t

have access to paid family and

medical leave,” Sen. Kirsten

Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who has been

pushing for such worker rights

for years, said at a news

conference Thursday. “It’s worse

than unacceptable, it’s terrible

policy.”

But it’s unlikely that

legislation introduced by the

House that would include free

coronavirus testing, up to three

months of emergency paid leave

benefits to all workers affected

by the coronavirus and a possible

increase in the federal share of

medicaid payments to states will

be approved by the Senate.

Stunning, right?

At least the conversation is

happening.

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Twitter: @petulad

Ta king two or three days off

can be a month of groceries for a

family or a month of gasoline.

for too many, taking off those

days and leaving the boss

hanging for a shift can mean the

whole paycheck is gone.

I remember those days. my

mom worked through every

cough, sniffle and knockdown flu

she had because there was no

way to replace the day of tips she

would lose when she wasn’t

waiting tables at the coffee shop.

“It’s economic inequity and

racial inequity in our system,”

Ness said. “This is how we build

bias into our system.”

There is good news, though.

Thanks to this global

pandemic, America’s barely legit

workforce protections held

together with spit, Scotch-tape,

campaign slogans and ignorance,

might finally get some help.

Because usually, unless the

pork belly isn’t seared enough or

the iced tea isn’t refilled, much of

America gives little thought to

the workers at the bottom of the

economic ladder.

Now that they can infect the

team leader and the whole crew

he brought to lunch, we may

consider how vulnerable the

service industry workers are.

Darden restaurants, which

owns olive Garden, the Capital

Grille and others, announced a

percent of whom make at least

$32 an hour and get paid sick

days, according to numbers from

the Pew research Center.

If you’re someone in the

middle of that score sheet, you

make $13.80 or less for every

hour of work and only 51 percent

of y’all have any shot at paid sick

leave.

for the lowest earners —

$10.80 an hour or less — only 31

percent will get paid when they

call in sick.

“When you look at those

people, they are most likely to be

interacting with the public.

These are the people serving our

food, taking care of our loved

ones — our children, our seniors,

the ones delivering goods to us,

the retail workers and clerks,”

said Debra L. Ness, president of

the National Partnership for

Women & families.

This is about inequity, about

the huge and fire-breathing, lava-

pit gap between the wealthy and

the rest of America that grows

larger every year.

And it’s about racism.

“The tragedy,” Ness said, “is

that the majority of those

workers are... women of color.”

more than 85 percent of fast-

food workers are women, she

said. “A bout 70 percent said

they’ve gone to work coughing or

vomiting or with a fever.”

“This thing is running amok,”
said Anthony Advincula, who
works on national policy issues
for the restaurant opportunities
Center and has been getting calls
from restaurant workers across
the country who are scared
they’ll lose their jobs if they call
in sick. “In the service industry,
one person can make contact
with 200 people every day.”
And because we’re a nation
that has absolutely refused to
make meaningful progress on
the rights of most American
workers — the Bureau of Labor
Statistics says about 32 million
get no paid sick days — that one
person can’t afford to take the
day off and minimize contact
with thousands of people every
week.
An Uber driver in Queens, a
Starbucks barista in Seattle, a
Waffle House worker in Georgia,
a Walmart worker in Kentucky
are all among the hundreds of
Americans who’ve already tested
positive for the coronavirus.
But, that marketing team
leader who speaks to five people
a day is now safely ensconced at
home, fighting off a needy cat
and teleworking while collecting
a full salary.
He’s among the nation’s top 25
percent of salary earners, 92

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Petula dvorak

Coronavirus outbreak exposes a sickening inequity

she has converted her nonprofit,

which normally collects clothing

items, into a food distribution

center.

morris said the organization

has gathered roughly 20 boxes of

food so far, enough for maybe 200

families — a small fraction, she

said, of those who need it.

“I know the school made this

decision with our safety i n mind,”

morris said, “but I do feel this is

going to take a toll on a lot of the

families in need. They’re going to

be so much more vulnerable to

the ripple effect of what this virus

is causing.”

Jay Cuasay, who has an eighth-

grader in Loudoun schools, feels

fortunate he does not need to

worry about food for the foresee-

able future. He and his wife,

Eileen Sarett-Cuasay, began

stockpiling groceries several days

ago, for fear of the virus.

The Cuasays are not especially

concerned about the quality of

their daughter’s education, ei-

ther. Their house has reliable

Internet access, so if the system

shifts to online learning, that

should not pose a challenge —

which the couple said they know

is not the case for everyone.

If the shutdown extends for a

significant period, or should Lou-

doun County’s online offerings

prove inadequate, the Cuasays —

both of whom have graduate

degrees — said they feel comfort-

able taking turns teaching their

child.

“She certainly likes her teach-

ers better than asking mom and

dad, so I could see that not being

the most ideal,” J ay Cuasay said.

But what’s most difficult is

explaining the pandemic to their

13-year-old daughter. T he teen, “a

huge social butterfly,” wanted to

go to a movie Thursday evening

with friends, Eileen Sarett-Cua-

say said, and she is unsure

whether — or how — to tell her

“No.”

The family was already cancel-

ing plans with friends and take

extra handwashing precautions.

But it has been hard to convince

their daughter of the seriousness

of the coronavirus and the threat

it could pose to society, Jay Cua-

say said, partly because no one

can see a pandemic.

Eileen Sarett-Cuasay said she

does not know what to tell her

daughter, partly because she has

never experienced anything like

the coronavirus pandemic. She

worries about the lasting effects

on the teen.

“I just want to keep things as

normal for her as possible,” she

said. “It’s important for her to

have a normal life.”

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Perry stein contributed to this report.

home, rather than taking exams,

and parents pondered how much

they should shape their chil-

dren’s unexpectedly free sched-

ules.

others were making more des-

perate calculations. Among them

are substitute teachers who will

not be able to earn pay during the

shutdown, and families depen-

dent on free and reduced-priced

meals provided by the school

system. Nicole morris, the execu-

tive director of Women Giving

Back, a Loudoun nonprofit that

provides essentials to lower-in-

come families, said her organiza-

tion was flooded with requests

for help after the announcement.

“A lot of our families did not

get to prepare,” s he said.

After promising at the news

conference to develop a plan for

feeding families, Williams

emailed Loudoun families late

Thursday to announce that offi-

cials would serve free breakfast

and lunch at every school cam-

pus from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. roughly

15,000 families in the school

district qualify, according to

spokesman rob Doolittle.

Because of t he abruptness of

the closures, many students still

had personal items such as lap-

tops, computer chargers and

medicine in their lockers. Wil-

liams said schools would be open

from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. friday for

students and families to make

short visits to retrieve belong-

ings.

At least one school, Park View

High in Sterling, will use that

time to distribute food to families

that need it. The school — where

70 percent of students come f rom

low-income families — is round-

ing up every item in its food

pantry, according to Principal

Kirk Dolson, and will bag it and

hand it out to students and par-

ents friday.

morris — whose nonprofit

serves many families attending

Park View — is stepping in to

help, too. over the past 24 hours,

provide instructional packets for

students but would not offer

remote instruction.

“I cannot guarantee every

child has technology and access

to the Internet,” s he said.

In Loudoun County, students,

parents and staffers learned early

Thursday about the decision by

Loudoun County Public Schools

to suspend classes for 84,000

students — a move that left many

reeling. Later in the morning,

Schools Superintendent Eric Wil-

liams appeared at a news confer-

ence to explain his action.

Classes in Loudoun will cease

for the next week, and the system

has no immediate plans for on-

line learning. officials said the

school system is “developing

guidance” for principals and

teachers about virtual education

if schools remain closed for a

prolonged period.

Williams apologized for the

inconvenience and strain the clo-

sures will put on students and

families but said, “We know it’s

the right decision.”

“We know our schools are at

the nexus of this community, and

we know that local, regional,

national experts are encouraging

school divisions to consider and

implement mitigation strate-

gies,” Williams said.

No c ases of covid-19, the illness

caused by the novel coronavirus,

have been associated with the

school system, Williams wrote in

an email sent to families and staff

Thursday.

The shutdown, he said, will

give the district time to get more

information about the potential

threat and better assess how to

proceed without jeopardizing

students, teachers and staffers.

All Loudoun schools will be thor-

oughly cleaned before the e xpect-

ed reopening on march 23.

As news of the closure spread,

Loudoun County families and

employees struggled to adjust to

their new reality. S tudents s pilled

onto sofas to watch movies at

he announced a set of public
restrictions.
Salmon said buildings and
buses would be cleaned during
the shutdown, and she recom-
mended that the time off be made
up during spring break. The state
is working to continue providing
school meals for students in
need, she said.
The Archdiocese of Washing-
ton said Thursday night that its
93 schools — in the District and
maryland — would follow the
maryland public schools’ closing
schedule.
With cases of novel coronavi-
rus on the rise and school sys-
tems closing elsewhere through-
out the country, many parents
had a sense that classes could be
canceled, b ut the reality left t hem
with challenges in child care and
work obligations.
Some wondered about the in-
struction and school meals stu-
dents would miss, while others
considered the implications for
extracurricular activities and for
sports and spring-break plans.
“The entire parent community
is probably reeling right now,
trying to figure out how they’re
going to cope with a two-week
close,” said Cynthia Simonson,
president of the montgomery
County Council of PTAs.
Parent Ta mmy Clark said that
while closing schools was the
responsible decision, she is con-
cerned about f amilies in her com-
munity, many of which lack In-
ternet access and have few child-
care options.
Clark also wonders how the
state will handle standardized
tests that students take in the
spring. Her older son, a junior in
high school, is to take the SAT
with his classmates at the end of
march. And her younger son, an
eighth-grader, is preparing for a
high-stakes math test in spring.
“It’s unprecedented, so I’m cu-
rious to see how things fall,”
Clark said.
In a recent letter sent to fami-
lies, school officials said mont-
gomery will provide instruction-
al materials online and in a “hard
copy format.” A major concern
has been equity in the 165,000-
student system, which is mary-
land’s largest. more than 55,000
students get free and reduced-
price meals.
“We don’t want to leave some
families out because they don’t
have Internet access or devices,”
schools spokesman Derek Turner
said.
Similar concerns were ex-
pressed by monica Goldson, chief
executive of Prince George’s
County Public Schools. Goldson
said her county — with 82,000
students who receive free and
reduced-price meals — would

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School closings bring a crisis for some

michael s. Williamson/the Washington Post

a scene Thursday at loudoun county high in leesburg a fter

loudoun county announced the closure of its public schools.

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