European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 10, 1993 . The stars and stripes  court boosts harassment prosecution ruling makes it easier to prove on the Fob sexual complaints Washington a the supreme court in a ruling of enormous importance to the american workplace his made it easier to prove on the Job sexual harassment. The court tuesday unanimously re Vived a Tennessee woman s lawsuit against a former Boss she accuses of off color behaviour. The justices reversed lower court Rul Ings that had thrown out the lawsuit be cause the woman had failed to prove that her Boss s conduct had caused her severe psychological injury writing for the court Justice Sandra Day o Connor said Federal Law does bar conduct that would seriously affect a reasonable person s psychological Well  but she added that the Law is not limited to such  so Long As the environment would reasonably be perceived and is perceived As hostile or abusive there is no need for it also to be psychologically injurious o Connor said. The High court ruled in 1986 that on the Job sexual harassment is illegal if it is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim s employ  in tuesday s decision o Connor wrote for the court that the 1986 ruling did not create a mathematically precise  whether an environment is hostile or abusive can be determined Only by looking at All the circumstances she said. These May include the frequency of the discriminatory conduct its sever Ity whether it is physically threatening or humiliating or a Mere offensive utter Ance and whether it unreasonably inter feres with an employee s work perform  o Connor said the conduct s effect Onan employee s psychological Well being is relevant but added that no single Factor is  Teresa Harris sued her former Boss Charles Hardy after resigning in 1987 from her Job As a manager at forklift sys tems in Nashville Tenn. Harris said Hardy among other things had asked her to retrieve coins from his front pants pocket suggested they go to local Motel to negotiate her pay raise and asked if she won a sates contract by pro Viding sexual favors. Tuesday s decision sends Harris Law suit against Hardy Back to the 6th . Circuit court of appeals for further study. It was not immediately Clear whether a trial on Harris allegation would be ordered. Tuesday s decision released with one in an unrelated Case was among the firs two made by a supreme court with two female justices. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg also wrote a concurring opinion in which she said that tuesday s ruling lets employees win lawsuits if they prove a reasonable person would find that the conduct so altered working conditions As to make it More difficult to do the  Counselor says wife sought Aid before assault Manassas a. A a court Counselor Testi fied tuesday that a woman who Cut off her husband Penis for alleged sexual abuse came to his office two Days before and asked about court Protection from her husband. Lorena Bobbin testified monday that John Wayne Bobbin pinned her to the bed and raped her the night of june 23. After he fell asleep she said i lifted the sheets and i Cut  Lorena Bobbin testified at the trial of her husband who is charged with marital sexual assault. She faces her own trial nov. 29 on a malicious wounding charge her lawyer has said he will Likely use a temporary Insan Ity defense. Each spouse could be sentenced to 20 years in prison if convicted. Prince William county court Counselor Steven rogue said tuesday that Lorena Bobbitt came to his office june 21. I basically told her i m concerned for her safety be cause of what she told me rogue said. He said she complained of physical and sexual abuse by her Hus band a former Marine. To get a court order protecting her Lorena Bobbitt would have had to appear before a judge. Rogue said she opted not to appear and said she would return later in the week. She never came Back. On monday defense lawyer Gregory Murphy said Lorena Bobbitt was upset Over insensitive lovemaking and Only later claimed she was forced to have sex. Murphy read portions of Bobbin s statement to police in which she complained her husband was a selfish Lover who always has an orgasm and he never Waits for me to have  in the same statement Bobbin 24, complained that her husband had performed sex without taking off All Lorena Bobbitt is escorted to court in Manassas va., by attorney James Lowe As her husband John Wayne Dobby to arrives nearby with an unidentified woman. Her clothes. That does not sound like the statement of a woman who has been raped Murphy said. The defense said the sex was consensual and claimed Lorena Bobbitt i mainly concerned with making Money from the highly publicized Case. Murphy also suggested she was jealous because her husband had talked to another woman. In his opening statement monday the prosecutor told the jury of nine women and three men that John Bobbitt frequently forced his wife to have sex. Bobbitt has made no Public statement since his arrest. Lorena Bobbitt has granted two interviews. The bobbins who married four years ago Are seeking a i  her testimony Bobbitt described How she fled the couple s Manassas apartment still clutching the Penis and the fillet knife. She said she realized she was still holding the Organ Midway Between the apartment an the Salon where she works As a manicurist. I screamed and i threw it put of the car window she said. V police found it on a Grassy Corner. The Organ was packed in ice and taken to a Hospital where it was reattached in a nine hour operation. Doctors say John Bob Bitt is recovering Well. During jury selection. Circuit judge Leroy f. Mil Lette or. Excluded some people in the 30-Membcr jury Pool who said they had Strong opinions in the Case Anda woman who said she would be embarrassed to discuss the details. Closer investigation of child deaths urged Chicago a doctors should try harder to determine the cause of death of children younger than 6, a Pedi patricians group said. In addition every state should require autopsies when such deaths Are suspicious unexpected or injury related the american Academy of paediatrics said. Without uniform death investigations the Academy said Progress in understand ing sudden infant death syndrome is inhibited cases of child abuse and neglect Are missed and genetic diseases go in  few exceptions throughout the United states there is no uniform system for the investigation of infant and child deaths the Academy said in a policy statement released monday. The statement appears in the novem Ber Issue of paediatrics the journal of the46,000-member Academy based in suburban Elk Grove Village. The Academy noted that children younger than 6 Are the most vulnerable to abuse because of their size incomplete verbal skills and limited Contact with adults other than their primary Aretak  nature is to say anything but murder happened Here said or. Caro Lyn Levitt a member of the Academy s committee on child abuse and  is just so much easier than facing what happens to  no physical injuries Are apparent some less experienced authorities skip autopsies and blame sudden infant death syndrome or Side. A minority of these cases Are actually homicides Levitt said. The Academy has developed Model legislation and said a centralized data base could help review and prevent child deaths especially in areas without prop Erly trained pathologists. Paediatricians should advocate proper death certification and realize that this is not possible in Side cases without comprehensive investigation that includes an autopsy the group said. It should never be assumed that the death of a child with a chronic impair ment occurred As a result of that impair ment the Academy said. Of the 55,861 deaths of children younger than 15 in the United states in 1989, More than three fourths occurred in children younger than 2, the Academy said. About one third of these earlier deaths were unexpected or unexplained it said. Woman 92, guns Down teen intruder Chicago a a 92-year-old woman in a wheelchair shot and killed a teen Ager trying to robber in her Home police said. The state attorney s office Rule that the shooting was justified and said no charges would be file against the woman Bessie Jones. The intruder was pushing Jones around in her wheelchair and thought she was reaching for Cash and jewelry when she pulled a gun out of a Dresser drawer and shot him in the Throat police said