MAUREEN CALLAHAN: 'Predator' T.J. Holmes exposes what a farce the #MeToo ... trends now

How is T.J. Holmes getting away with this?

Yet another young woman has now come forward, claiming that Holmes, then her senior at ABC News, used her sexually and tossed her aside.

This seems a pattern for Holmes, who nonetheless is getting soft-focus treatment from a mainstream news media and a #MeToo industrial complex that otherwise pounces on sexual predators in the workplace.

Since his affair with co-host Amy Robach was revealed in DailyMail.com last fall, there's been a drip-drip-drip of women coming forward to say he took advantage of them. As is usually the case, where there is one abuse of power there is another, and another, and another.

How many other young women did Holmes sexually exploit in the workplace? My guess is more than we know.

As DailyMail.com exclusively reported last month, a different female staffer, identified as Jasmin Pettaway, was 24 — 13 years younger than Holmes — when she worked at ABC News. She had hoped Holmes would be a mentor.

Instead, it was sex in his office until Holmes got bored and discarded her.

An anonymous source, who knew Pettaway well at the time, claimed that Holmes 'was a predator who took full advantage of his position.'

Speaking to The Cut, this latest woman, identified only as Sascha, says she was 27 years old and working the overnight shift in 2014 when Holmes began coming on to her. He was married, but his status as a rising star, coupled with his considerable charm, was hard to resist.

Holmes, Sascha said, appeared to be 'the only person in the building who took me seriously.' He took a 'crazy amount of interest' in her, flirting over email.

'I'm learning a lot about you,' Holmes wrote. 'I might actually like you.'

Heady stuff for a junior staffer left exhausted by a 9 p.m.-5 a.m. schedule that left no room for dating or any kind of social life. Her job was grit but his was glamour, and his attention and affection were a boon to Sascha. Their sexual relationship began in an Upper West Side hotel and went downhill from there, hook-ups mainly relegated to — where else? — his office.

Think about that: A network star who has young female staffers coming into his office — door closed and locked — then emerging flushed and disheveled.

The New York Post spoke to a source who reported seeing a 'junior staffer' emerge from Holmes' office in 2015 looking like a 'deer in the headlights.'

Sascha said she was shocked to read that report and recognize that that young woman was her — that she had been observed and seen by a co-worker as something of a victim.

The message Holmes was sending, to my mind, is very clear: This newsroom is mine, I'll take who I want when I want, and make minimal effort to hide it.

The notion that Holmes's bosses had no idea what he was up to is laughable. This went on for years.

Multiple sources also told DailyMail.com that another young female, an intern, was left 'stressed' and 'freaked out' by his repeated advances. And no one is lower in the ranks or has less power than an intern.

How was Holmes allowed to predate for so long? Have network news executives learned nothing from Matt Lauer, who was fired in 2017 amid sexual misconduct and abuse allegations that included rape?

To be clear, Holmes is not accused of anything so vile — but make no mistake: predatory acts by a superior in the workplace harm and scar. They affect career trajectories. How many young women bow out rather than navigate this stuff? Or get blackballed? Or are unable to do their best under such undue, unspoken, tolerated-by-the-brass stress?

Pettaway, now an award-winning casting producer and lifestyle brand founder, left ABC after two years to

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