More women accuse Anti-Flag’s Justin Sane of sexual assault
nme.comAnti-Flag frontman Justin Sane had sexually assaulted them.Allegations against Sane had first surfaced in July when a woman claimed on a podcast than she had been raped by a punk singer, who initially wasn’t named.
Anti-Flag subsequently disbanded, but Sane later released a statement in which he called the allegations “categorically false”.His former bandmates released a separate statement regarding the split and allegations that read: “A core tenet of the band Anti-Flag is to listen to and believe all survivors of sexual violence and abuse.
The recent allegations about Justin are in direct contradiction to that tenet. Therefore, we felt the only immediate option was to disband.”They added that they had “never seen Justin be violent or aggressive toward women” in the 30 years of the band’s lifetime.Now, a new report by Rolling Stone has published the accounts of numerous other women accusing Sane of sexual assault in incidents that date from the ’90s to as recently as 2020.
Their accounts follow a similar pattern – Sane would allegedly make eye contact with them while performing and then approach them after the show.
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