Brendan Cox quits charities, admits inappropriate behaviour
 

The husband of murdered MP Jo Cox, Brendan Cox, has quit two charities he set up in her memory after allegations of sexual assault were made public.

Mr Cox denied assaulting a woman in her 30s at Harvard University in 2015 - but admitted to "inappropriate" behaviour while working for Save the Children.

He has left posts at More in Common and the Jo Cox Foundation a week after the*Mail on Sunday*published the claims.

Mr Cox apologised for the "hurt and offence" caused by his past behaviour.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43101434

Tbh I've always found this man quite unlikeable in how he used every opportunity to appear in the media as the voice of the righteous, been rumours about his behaviour for a long time and was always clear he wasn't the squeaky clean person he portrayed himself as

Ew

who calls their baby Brendan no offence

Apparently everyone in Westminster and the media knew about him.

Wait, you mean The Most Moral Man Ever(tm) was up to no good?!

Maybe he'll go work for Oxfam.

It's the kids I feel sorry for. What an example.

There's loads of people called Brendan what about Brendan Cole Strictly , his name has nothing to do with it so let's not be silly :sleep: .

However after the horrible death of his poor wife I am taken aback by this, remember feeling so sorry for him . And he was campaigning and trying to keep her work alive . And he was always in the media trying to stay positive and have hope:shocked: .

Now he's been revealed as some sexual harasser , when he should of been helping charities instead of helping himself .

Could I have an explanation of why you have concluded the husband of a murdered MP is the 'most moral man ever'?

Because we all had sympathy for him, nobody expected a saint but it's shocking to hear this about him after he was supposed to be setting up charities in his late wife's name .

We judged him by his media appearances and assumed he was a decent guy ,and thought it was nice that he had hope and was campaigning and keeping Jo's memory alive . You don't exactly expect him to be sexually harassing people :facepalm:.

The whole Oxfam scandal has opened Pandora's box ,and people won't look at charities the same way again it's tainted them .

The allegation was prior to his the death of his wife, how does it affect his work with her charity foundation now?

Well it would appear we're only finding out now !?? :shrug: that's why it affects it . I didn't know any of this until now.

Obviously you're going to look at someone differently if you find out something bad . But all we're being told according to that article is he "over stepped the line" and resigned from the charity because of it .

Feel sorry for her kids, their mum's dead and their dad's a perv :(

Yes he touched someone inappropriately, that could be a hand on a knee or a uninvited hug, I'm not downplaying it, that said I think their is a danger that because of the current media climate it could be seen as being blow out of proportion.

Well this is the problem with sexual harassment allegations , they're not telling us exactly what he's done but he himself is admitting he overstepped the line . so it doesn't look good for him .

I get the impression it's more than an "uninvited hug" or a "hand on the knee" , but who knows . As we all know things can be taken the wrong way :rolleyes: . Maybe he didn't take no for an answer and kept pestering them ? .

In the news there's been so many allegations about people in the public eye, and some are true but others are blown out of proportion , it's got to the stage where if a guy said something as a joke towards a woman 30 years ago he will now be in trouble for "sexual harassment" :bored:.

He apologised and stepped down, thats a lot more than most do, we will have to see if any other accusations follow.

It is claimed that Mr Cox drunkenly harassed a female employee at the charity in London, forcing her against a wall outside a bar, holding her by the throat and telling her: 'I want to ******* you.'

The incident led to him being forced to leave the charity in 2015. Save The Children's chief executive Justin Forsyth, a close friend of Mr Cox and former aide to Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown, resigned four months later.

Astonishingly, one month after Mr Cox left the charity, a senior female US Government official told police Mr Cox had carried out a similar alleged assault on her at Harvard University in America – as this newspaper revealed last week. The woman was unaware of the Save The Children incident at the time.
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Some colleagues say he had a reputation for pestering women for sex. 'It wasn't comfortable being on duty alone with him,' said one.

'He would buy women drinks, his hands were everywhere. Everyone knew it was going on, but he was best friends with the boss.'

Matters came to a head after a Save The Children drinks party in July 2015. 'Brendan was dancing provocatively with a woman who told him to leave her alone,' said one source. 'She joined a group of women who went on to a bar. Brendan followed them. He got her outside, pushed her against a wall and tried to force himself on her.'
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This newspaper revealed last week how a woman, whose identity we withheld, complained to US police, accusing Mr Cox of sexual assault while there.

By her account, he cornered her in a bar, plied her with drink, 'grabbed her by the hips, pulled her hair, forced his thumb into her mouth in a sexual way' and later sent her obscene text messages. Police filed her complaint as 'assault and battery', but she told them not to take further action because she 'feared repercussions'.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...t-resigns.html

Sounds like a thoroughly unpleasant fella

The dirty devil.

Surely his wife must have know he was a sex pest?

vile

What a shame, I am surprised more wasn’t made of it at the time, him being married to a politician.

She was just another politician at the time though, she wasn't the new Jesus yet.

His surname is apt

'he cornered her in a bar, plied her with drink, 'grabbed her by the hips, pulled her hair, forced his thumb into her mouth in a sexual way' and later sent her obscene text messages.'

This sounds like a line from 50 shades... :/