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Rape survivors from around the country whose perpetrators were never charged have reached out to her, happy about the ultimate outcome of her case. (startribune.com)
Title IX has been brought to the spotlight due to sexual assault survivors stepping up to tell their horror stories of not only rape, but also a secondary rape of sorts. (huffpost.com)
When it comes to questions of women's oppression, and particularly an issue like rape, the views of women, particularly feminists and rape 'survivors', are today to be accepted unquestioningly. (bartleby.com)
The case against the witnesses and the smear campaign against them and the rape survivor send a chilling message to survivors of sexual violence and witnesses that they can go to prison if they report sexual violence. (hrw.org)
This may in turn have encouraged more rape survivors to report their assaults. (thelocal.se)
Seems some of the networks forgot that rape is rape and that all survivors deserve justice. (huffpost.com)
Like millions of rape survivors across the country and around the world, they were raped. (huffpost.com)
Knowledge produced about this phenomenon to date relates to the epidemiology, etiology and the consequences of these rapes, particularly on survivors in care institutions, thus ignoring the impact this phenomenon has on the communities. (bvsalud.org)

As such, we decline to use our offices' resources to criminalize reproductive health decisions and commit to exercise our well-settled discretion and refrain from prosecuting those who seek, provide, or support abortions. (9news.com)
earlier in the year, a 16-year-old in Edo State, South-South Nigeria dying alongside two NGO workers on the way to court anticipating judgment delivery against her own father who had impregnated her after several years of rapes and abortions. (york.ac.uk)
Because to take some of the most vulnerable of vulnerable victims and say, somehow, that their rapes don't matter and therefore their options for morning-after pills or abortions should be limited -- is not just irresponsible, but downright cruel. (huffpost.com)

As a district attorney, the Colorado tea party GOP Senate candidate didn't prosecute an alleged rapist. (motherjones.com)
Date rape" is unlawful sexual intercourse committed during a social engagement between the rapist and victim. (legalmatch.com)
Date rape often happens when the rapist and/or victim are drinking heavily. (legalmatch.com)
I helped prosecute a roofie (Rohyphol) rapist who drugged his female victims into unconsciousness, then sexually attacked them. (huffpost.com)

Revising military codes regarding sexual assault, the United States Supreme Court ruled that rape cases that occurred before 2006 can be prosecuted, CNN reports. (upworthy.com)
Now, the military will be able to prosecute at any time sexual assault cases committed between the years 1986 and 2006. (upworthy.com)
SCOTUS has ruled 8-0 that the military can prosecute at any time sexual assault cases committed between 1986 and 2006, overturning what had been a loophole of a five-year statute of limitations that existed for military sexual assault before 2006. (upworthy.com)
In a editorial defending Buck, the conservative Colorado Springs Gazette wrote that stories about the rape case were an attempt to "smear" Buck, since "typical" acquaintance rape cases "consist of 'he said' v. 'she said' and not much more. (motherjones.com)
A University of Minnesota student who went public with her fight for justice against the man who raped her has stirred action everywhere from the school president's office to Washington, where officials pledged to change how campus sexual assault cases are handled. (startribune.com)
I am appalled that so many cases of campus sexual assault are not being prosecuted," Gov. Mark Dayton said in a statement to the Star Tribune. (startribune.com)
Authorities prosecuted a number of abuses of power through the court system, particularly with regard to corruption, but in most cases the CCP first investigated and punished officials using opaque internal party disciplinary procedures. (state.gov)
Of the reported cases, most allegations of rape were closed through private settlement rather than prosecution. (state.gov)
Many of these victims have to face their rapists every day due to the failing of universities and their complete inability to adjudicate these rape cases properly. (huffpost.com)
But at the Senate hearing, officials steadfastly opposed most major changes in the way sexual assault cases are prosecuted. (propublica.org)
Now, commanders decide which cases are investigated and prosecuted, and which are thrown out. (propublica.org)
In many cases, the offender will claim that the person consented to sexual activity, thereby relieving them of liability for rape or sexual assault. (legalmatch.com)
Here is the problem with the article, it feeds the narrative that this is normative of rape cases and feeds into the false line of thought that America has a rape epidemic. (startribune.com)
In many rape cases, the police have denied to investigate or prosecute. (danielpipes.org)
DENVER - Eight prosecutors from Colorado are among 84 from around the country who pledged in an open letter Friday to not prosecute abortion cases following the overturning of Roe v. Wade . (9news.com)
Because of the state law, pledging not to prosecute abortion cases should not be an issue, though 9NEWS reached out to these eight prosecutors to ask if they're OK with other law enforcement not enforcing laws they disagree with, like the large-capacity magazine ban or previous COVID restrictions. (9news.com)
The change in the law gave the Australian Federal Police greater powers to investigate suspected cases and prosecute anyone who assists in the arrangement of a forced marriage or had prior knowledge (parents, the celebrant, family friends, etc). (amnesty.org.au)
This is backed up by a newly published report from the National Council on Crime Prevention (Brå), which shows that since the introduction of the law, rape reports and convictions in Sweden have increased, including many cases which would not have been classed as rape at all under the previous law. (thelocal.se)
Most of these still included factors that were previously necessary for a rape charge, such as force or threat, but 76 were considered 'new' cases that couldn't have been classed as rape before. (thelocal.se)
Simply, more cases of non-consensual sex can now be prosecuted as rape, and they stand a greater chance of conviction without the need for proof of force, threat, or violence. (thelocal.se)
These cases could not have been prosecuted as rape before the law change. (thelocal.se)
A deeply corrupt police force (where people pay themselves off offender's list), a laid-back and ineffective judiciary (where cases can linger for 20 years) and a society rife with the rape culture is perfect receipt for a major rape crisis. (york.ac.uk)
Many of the cases have seen legal actions taken and the perpetrators being arrested and prosecuted. (york.ac.uk)
ALDEPA has played a critical role in ending the practice of early marriage, providing school and life skills support, and helping families prosecute cases of rape, abduction, and physical violence. (lu.se)
From a sample of 1483 women, more than 99% had directly or indirectly experienced rape, on at least five occasions in three-quarters of cases. (bvsalud.org)

When Candy Crowley and her colleagues discuss the impact of a rape conviction on the rapists and not on the survivor, it perpetuates the rape culture already rampant in the Steubenville "rape crew. (huffpost.com)
When FOX reveals the name of the victim but not of the rapists, it perpetuates rape culture. (huffpost.com)
Few of these 'official' rapists are ever prosecuted. (newint.org)

The law does not safeguard same-sex couples or victims of marital rape. (state.gov)
The stories from college rape victims are absolutely heart-wrenching, and they are stories we all need to hear. (huffpost.com)
It is common for victims in date rape scenarios to have had consensual sex with the defendant prior to the non-consensual sex. (legalmatch.com)
Due to the personal nature of date rape, victims are often reluctant to even report the crime, as they may not want to get their significant other or date in any sort of legal trouble. (legalmatch.com)
In addition, victims are often unsure if what occurred is even date rape, especially if alcohol or drugs prevents the victim from remembering everything that happened. (legalmatch.com)
I think the story here is about second-rate police work (whether poor training, mistakes, failure to gather evidence, or lack of time or other resources) rather than any bias against alleged rape victims. (startribune.com)
If this is why, then the largest concern here is that our Officers, District Attorneys, Prosecuting attorneys are taking it into their own hands to not present charges so that victims don't get their day in court and criminals can't be held accountable. (startribune.com)
The Glen Ridge rape case became a national lesson in how people with intellectual disabilities - back then, the term was "mental retardation" - are victims of sexual abuse. (wypr.org)
Because forcible and non-forcible rapes are all rapes and none of the victims should lose their reproductive freedoms. (huffpost.com)
Because there are "non-forcible" rapes involving victims not capable of giving consent because of their young age, physical helplessness, unconsciousness or mental incompetence. (huffpost.com)
Remember, the reason the Republicans were trying to limit the definition of rape is that they were trying to limit the government role in protecting those victims. (huffpost.com)
The same GOP crew who tried to change the definition of rape were trying to limit Violence Against Women Act resources for victims of rape. (huffpost.com)
they were excluding "non-forcible rape" victims from via emergency contraception, abortion, and counseling services. (huffpost.com)
Our survey aims to investigate the extent to which women from the Orientale, North Kivu and South Kivu provinces experienced rape, as well as their perceptions regarding its frequency, characteristics, and repercussions for/on victims in their communities. (bvsalud.org)
In their experience, a large proportion of the rapes took place at the victims' homes in the presence of family members and were perpetrated by members of military or paramilitary groups. (bvsalud.org)

When individuals know that they or someone they love could be investigated and prosecuted for having an abortion, they are far less likely to call for help in the event of an emergency. (9news.com)
The Republicans' latest defense is to say you can't tie Paul Ryan and Todd Akin together on H.R. 3 and H.R. 356 -- both bills that tried to redefine rape as "forcible rape" in connection with eligibility for plan B or abortion services -- because the FBI uses the term, so why not Congress? (huffpost.com)

SALT LAKE CITY -- (KSTU) -- A federal Judge with Utah ties retired Wednesday after being named in a civil lawsuit alleging that he repeatedly raped a Utah teenager 35 years ago while she was a witness in a trial he was prosecuting. (truecrimedaily.com)
But Honold misheard the question, and in the same video repeatedly said she was raped. (startribune.com)
In a 2019 trial in Wodonga, Ms Bach testified that she had been raped repeatedly by two men, which the men denied, but it was the cross-examination of her testimony that was later scrutinised by a judge and legal experts. (abc.net.au)

DREW P. GREEN (d/o/b 9-08-1986), formerly of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, to statutory rape in the second degree, a class C felony, in the Circuit Court of Taney County. (taneycountyprosecutor.com)
Because the crime of statutory rape in the second degree is a class C felony, it carries a maximum penalty of seven (7) years in prison. (taneycountyprosecutor.com)
ST. CHARLES COUNTY, MISSOURI- THE OFFICE OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEY TIM LOHMAR announces that William Thomas Wilburn, 48, of St. Charles, was sentenced by the Honorable Ted House to life in prison on each of the three counts of statutory sodomy 1st degree, life in prison for one count of statutory rape 1st degree and 15 years for distributing a controlled substance to a minor. (sccmo.org)
Wilburn is already a registered sex offender and plead guilty in 2007 to statutory rape 2nd degree and statutory sodomy 2nd degree in St. Francois County. (sccmo.org)

If you believe you are a victim of date rape, then contact the authorities and go to a medical doctor immediately. (legalmatch.com)
But UK authorities declined to prosecute. (vice.com)
Six months after a woman reported that several men had gang-raped her in Cairo's Fairmont Hotel in 2014, Egyptian authorities have failed to adequately investigate the suspects, four of whom remain in pretrial detention while several others are under investigation. (hrw.org)
It is horrifying that Egyptian authorities have arrested the witnesses to a gang rape after encouraging them to come forward instead of protecting them and prosecuting the attackers," said Rothna Begum , senior women's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. (hrw.org)
The authorities should immediately drop the charges against the six, offer protection to those who have come forward as witnesses, and prosecute those who are found to have committed the gang rape, Human Rights Watch said. (hrw.org)
The authorities had encouraged witnesses of the rape to come forward, which they did in early August. (hrw.org)

Less than 24 hours after a New York judge rejected Jonathan Majors' request to have the domestic violence case against him tossed out, the Manhattan District Attorney's office has officially said they will not be prosecuting the Loki actor's accuser. (yahoo.com)
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has officially declined to prosecute the case against Grace Jabbari because it lacks prosecutorial merit," a spokesperson for DA Alvin Bragg stated Thursday morning. (yahoo.com)
While defendant claims the People did not investigate Ms. Jabbari, a thorough investigation was conducted into the facts of this case and, in doing so, the People have chosen to prosecute Jonathan Majors," the DA's office said in its filing, which was made October 13. (yahoo.com)
Supreme Court hears case of military rape and statute of limitation. (upworthy.com)
But by that standard, the case Buck declined to prosecute was far from typical. (motherjones.com)
When I read the police report, I said, 'Huh, this really isn't a he said, she said case: They agree,'" says Michelle Anderson, an expert on rape law who is the dean of the law school at the City University of New York. (motherjones.com)
The classic case of acquaintance rape that would include two versions of reality," she says. (motherjones.com)
It's not just prosecutors who say the circumstances like those of the case Buck didn't prosecute are unusual. (motherjones.com)
Buck's refusal to prosecute 2005 rape case reverberates in U.S. Senate. (coloradoindependent.com)
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ken Buck's decision not to prosecute a rape case five years ago angers women still, more because of his dismissive attitude toward the victim than for the decision itself. (coloradoindependent.com)
Randolph, the officer who reopened the investigation, said he's been asked to give a presentation to the Minneapolis City Council about why the case was not initially prosecuted. (startribune.com)
Press statement by the Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs Prof. Margaret Kobia on the Moi Girls High School rape case. (kenya-today.com)
We should be reversing the mindset of learning to prevent rape and find a solution to cease rape all together.There have been countless inventions to prevent rape such as nail polish to see if a drink has been roofied, and even ordinary items (i.e. lipstick) are being manufactured as concealed weapons to be carried in case of emergency. (bartleby.com)
What Obstacles May Prevent a Date Rape Case from Being Properly Prosecuted? (legalmatch.com)
WNDU) - A California man has been convicted in the Kosciusko County Superior Court in a 22-year-old kidnapping and rape case. (wndu.com)
Following Todd's appearance in this case at a pretrial hearing in the Kosciusko Superior Court, Todd submitted to a court ordered submission of suspect standards, which were compared to the DNA from the rape kit. (wndu.com)
Lyons-Boswick goes to Veterans Courthouse in Newark to have a judge sign off on a warrant she needs to prosecute a sexual assault case. (wypr.org)
That case, known as the Glen Ridge rape case, was the first time a sexual assault of a woman with an intellectual disability captured widespread national attention. (wypr.org)
Beirut) - Egyptian security agencies in late August 2020 arbitrarily arrested a man and three women who were witnesses to a high-profile gang rape case from 2014 that recently came to light, Human Rights Watch said today. (hrw.org)
The case involves a woman who said that several men drugged her, took turns raping her, wrote their initials on her back, and recorded a video of their actions in Cairo's Fairmont Nile City Hotel in April 2014. (hrw.org)

In 2017, 4,895 alleged rapes were reported, which increased to 5,930 by 2019, although this is partly a continuation of a long-term trend pre-dating the law change. (thelocal.se)
This week, the ABC revealed the experience of Nadia Bach after she testified she was raped by two men at a party in Tallangatta in 2017. (abc.net.au)

The rape convictions for all three perpetrators were thus vacated. (upworthy.com)

Paul Cleasby successfully prosecutes a defendant who had claimed he was not guilty of rape as he was suffering from a sleep disorder called Sexomnia. (kbwchambers.com)
The standard of proof is lower because they aren't finding individuals guilty or not guilty of rape with criminal consequences. (huffpost.com)

Meanwhile, the prosecution waited weeks before ordering the arrest of the men accused of the gang rape, which allowed several suspects to flee the country unquestioned. (hrw.org)
Everything i noted earlier except the scale of atrocity is lower than the peak period of Oct-Feb. Now a new culture of gang raping minority women has developed: Islamic terrorists go to minority homes at night in the guise of "dacoit"(looter) and gang rape the women of the family (please see the Daily Bengali newspaper "Janakantho" of Oct 12-13 2002 for ref. (danielpipes.org)
Silent protests were part of India's response to 2012's gang rape. (newint.org)

Rape of women is illegal, and carries a sentence of three years in prison to death. (state.gov)
As a result, women rarely prosecute their husbands for adultery because the yearlong prison sentence that could result from a conviction would put them in tough financial straits. (recoveryranch.com)
Human rights organizations have expressed concerns over the way these laws are enforced, not only because women make up the vast majority of those who are prosecuted, but also because they are often enforced even when the "adultery" that a woman committed was the result of rape. (recoveryranch.com)
Rape Culture is an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which sexual violence against women is normalized and excused in the media and popular culture. (bartleby.com)
Many women abuse the legal system by reporting date rape against partners who are cheating, neglecting them, rejecting their advances, or breaking up with them. (legalmatch.com)
the all-encompassing terms Egypt routinely uses as pretexts to prosecute women and LGBT people. (hrw.org)
Republicans try and sweep rape allegations under the rug and ignore women. (startribune.com)
States and territories had 'marital exemptions' in their definitions of rape which basically stripped the ability of married women to say no to sexual intercourse. (amnesty.org.au)
I met children raped by their fathers and elderly women confined to wheelchairs raped by robbers. (huffpost.com)
Will guns protect women who are raped by family members or friends? (newint.org)
A question that does not grab the attention of our middle classes or wealthy sections, is that poor women have always been raped by wealthy men with total impunity. (newint.org)
The other seriously neglected question is the rape and ongoing sexual violence perpetrated on dalit and adivasi women over the most innocuous, often merely perceived offences, to 'teach the community' a lesson. (newint.org)
And then the real Maoist insurgents descend on adivasi women and rape them for 'colluding' with the armed forces. (newint.org)
Women are raped in police stations by cops on duty and in the north east there have been protests against sexual molestation and rape for decades now. (newint.org)
During these conflicts, systematic rape has been used as a weapon of war to break women and communities. (bvsalud.org)

Sen. McCaskill has led a bipartisan effort to require that anyone convicted of "rape, sexual assault, forcible sodomy, or an attempt to commit any of those offenses" be dismissed or given a dishonorable discharge. (propublica.org)
In some states marital rape is considered non-forcible as well. (huffpost.com)

In 2018, Sweden introduced a so-called 'consent law' ( samtyckeslagen ), which changed the legal definition of rape. (thelocal.se)
We learned that the Republicans had been trying since the first days of taking over the House in 2011 to change the definition of rape. (huffpost.com)
We've got a definition of rape that requires consent, it's defined in the act as free agreement. (abc.net.au)

In two years, Sweden has seen a 75 percent rise in rape convictions, a result which rights campaigners have hailed as a success for a law change that made all non-consensual sex illegal. (thelocal.se)
But when it comes to convictions for rape, that hasn't been a long-term increasing trend. (thelocal.se)

On September 8, 2023, and September 12, 2023, the prosecution informed the NYPD that the People would decline to prosecute any charges brought by the NYPD against Ms. Jabbari related to the belated allegations made by defendant regarding the incident on March 25, 2023. (yahoo.com)
Commanders have an incentive to ignore rape allegations , advocates of the change say, because it reflects poorly on their leadership. (propublica.org)
The influencer was served legal papers for alleged rape and abuse by UK lawyers at the Bucharest compound where he's under house arrest over allegations of human trafficking. (vice.com)

Every generation before and after mine will have been exposed to some type of aspect surrounding rape culture. (bartleby.com)

This series is intended to show readers how incredibly inept colleges and universities are when it comes to rape complaints on their campuses. (huffpost.com)
It's so common to hear about young girls getting raped on college campuses or at high school parties. (bartleby.com)

The rape of someone with an intellectual disability remains one of the hardest crimes for police to investigate and one of the hardest for prosecutors to win in court. (wypr.org)

A victim of sexual assault claimed, 'Having an 8-0 unanimous panel speaks volumes to how seriously this country is taking the stance against rape in the military. (upworthy.com)
The alleged victim, Terry Mitchell, was the key witnesses in the murder trial of a serial killer Roberts was prosecuting. (truecrimedaily.com)
In a taped phone call with the victim obtained by the Colorado Independent , the suspect responded to the question "You do realize that…it's rape? (motherjones.com)
Before Drill-Mellum's conviction, there were more than 1,000 sex assaults reported since 2010 to the Aurora Center, the school's rape prevention and victim advocacy department, according to a Star Tribune review of the center's reports. (startribune.com)
We need to stop allowing rape jokes to be passed off as harmless, the over sexualization of young girls, victim-blaming, and put an end to the double standard surrounding rape . (bartleby.com)
Date rape often involves the offender creating conditions which make the victim more susceptible to rape including: using date rape drugs, planning the date in a secluded area, or inducing the victim to become excessively intoxicated. (legalmatch.com)
As a result, both parties' judgment tends to be compromised and the victim is often too inhibited to give proper consent or fight the rape. (legalmatch.com)
The victim said the man forced her into her car and took her to a wooded area, where he raped her twice. (wndu.com)
The Indiana State Police Lab then compared the suspect standards from the San Diego Police Department with the DNA from the rape kit and found the DNA profile to be at least one trillion times more likely if it originated from the victim and Todd than if it originated from the victim and an unknown person. (wndu.com)
Previously a factor such as threat, force, or the victim having been taken advantage of in a vulnerable situation (such as under the influence of drugs or alcohol) was necessary for a rape classification. (thelocal.se)
So today, I'm not sure if media figures are actually absorbing their own reporting on "legitimate rape" and VAWA -- by now they should have taught themselves that rape is rape and that victim-blaming and slut-shaming perpetuate rape culture. (huffpost.com)
Participants (N = 496) reviewed an ambiguous rape scenario involving a "perpetrator," either in a high or low authority position, and a "victim," who had or had not consumed alcohol. (bvsalud.org)

Rodriguez Todd, 53, of La Mesa, Calif., was convicted after a three-day jury trial for kidnapping and raping a Logansport woman on Nov. 23, 1999, in Warsaw. (wndu.com)

Stockport Trading Standards have successfully prosecuted two shopkeepers for sales of e-cigarettes to a 14-year-old Trading Standards volunteer. (thebusinessdesk.com)

When the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the U.S. military's sexual assault crisis, lawmakers grilled Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine officials on the alarmingly high number of rapes and other sexual abuses in their ranks. (propublica.org)

the National Prosecuting Authority alleged that he had raped a woman at a hotel in Mokopone and had subsequently attempted to bribe her R400 to keep quiet about the incident. (wikipedia.org)
A woman found dead in a pool of blood in a Wisbech hotel room had been raped and asphyxiated, a court has heard. (felicitygerry.com)
The other side is rarely spoken about because it implies that a woman may have lied about being raped. (huffpost.com)
There's a trial scheduled in March at the marble courthouse in Newark, N.J., of a man charged with kidnapping and raping a young woman with an intellectual disability. (wypr.org)
And those lessons are being applied to the trial of Khrishad Clark, the man charged with kidnapping and raping a 29-year-old woman with an intellectual disability. (wypr.org)

Victoria's Attorney-General says she was 'appalled' by the courtroom treatment of a teenager who alleged she was raped, and has again backed an inquiry into how the justice system responds to sexual offences, after an ABC investigation revealed the cross-examination methods used by two defence barristers in a rape trial. (abc.net.au)

Trent Mays, 17, left, and co-defendant 16-year-old Ma'lik Richmond sit in court before the start of the third day of their trial on rape charges in juvenile court on Friday, March 15, 2013 in Steubenville, Ohio. (huffpost.com)

Human Rights Watch interviewed 4 activists involved in online campaigning against sexual violence, 3 of whom have been in contact with the rape survivor and 2 of whom have been in contact with families of the witnesses and their acquaintances. (hrw.org)

Councillor Frankie Singleton, Cabinet Member for Communities, Culture & Sport, said: "We are committed to protecting our young people and we will do all we can to prosecute those who break the law in this way. (thebusinessdesk.com)
He goes on to add, that he is fully committed to prosecuting the people who engage in this conduct, and will work with law enforcement partners to hold them accountable. (kxl.com)
The worst part about date rape is that it is often between people who know one another: friends, dates, boyfriends/girlfriends or acquaintances. (legalmatch.com)

We have continued to accept rape culture as normal in our lives because we grew accustomed to the sexual violence that we were exposed to on a daily basis. (bartleby.com)
I believe that rape culture is a product of our ignorance as a society. (bartleby.com)
Even schools are enforcing dress codes that further perpetrate rape culture by telling girls that dressing provocatively will incite the uncontrollable sexual desires of others. (bartleby.com)
Many individuals might wonder, what is rape culture? (bartleby.com)
Thesis: Due to overexposure our society has become desensitized to the effects of rape and sexual abuse allowing a rape culture to flourish. (bartleby.com)
Rape culture is everywhere. (bartleby.com)
Rape culture exists because we don't believe it does. (bartleby.com)
The legislature wouldn't be so keen to do something- anything -about the so-called campus "rape culture" if the federal government wasn't demanding action and threatening to withhold precious education funding if states don't show results. (city-journal.org)
It refocuses and completely ignores the issues of assault and rape across the world to demonize our culture. (startribune.com)
Nothing has changed in the rape culture or the US. (startribune.com)
Social media, in particular, may serve a critical role in shaping rape culture. (bvsalud.org)

A perpetrator is free to rape again. (wypr.org)

Every campus police department offers rape defense programs. (city-journal.org)

The most common date rape drug is alcohol. (legalmatch.com)

In 1986, however, Congress passed a law exempting crimes punishable by the death sentence from the five-year statute of limitations-including rape. (upworthy.com)
Congress revised the code, making it even clearer that rape could be prosecuted "at any time without limitation. (upworthy.com)

In August 2021, the National Prosecuting Authority announced that Mashamaite faced corruption charges relating to multimillion-rand tender irregularities at the Mogalakwena Local Municipality between 2016 and 2019. (wikipedia.org)
Do I Need a Lawyer for Assistance With Date Rape Charges? (legalmatch.com)
At a later trial, one of the two accused men was found not guilty of four charges of rape, while the other was convicted of one count of anal rape. (abc.net.au)

Rape and sexual assault has never be lower in America. (startribune.com)
Remember 2012 when America was awash in "legitimate rape" stories? (huffpost.com)
I wrote about the relationship of prosecuting HIV and how and why HIV and AIDS had become so lodged in Black America within the United States. (medscape.com)

It was designed to counter rape myths. (abc.net.au)
Researchers have established that myths about both rape generally, and child sexual abuse (CSA) specifically, appear with regularity in criminal trials of children who have made an allegation of CSA. (bvsalud.org)
This work suggests that attorneys are, at times, strategic in their use of myths and employ these adult rape myths in ways that are plausible, purposeful, and likely impactful. (bvsalud.org)
Increased access to information online (e.g., social media) provides opportunities for exposure to rape myths (i.e., false beliefs about incidents of sexual assault). (bvsalud.org)
Thus, it is important to identify ways to assess online exposure to rape myths, especially given the influence online exposure may have on offline behaviors. (bvsalud.org)
We used exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA, CFA) to evaluate the relatedness of nine items adapted to reflect rape myths posted by friends on social media. (bvsalud.org)
We split the sample into training (50%) and testing (50%) sets for the EFA and CFA, respectively, then evaluated the correlation between experiences of sexual violence, substance use, and social media use and exposure to online rape myths. (bvsalud.org)
Our findings support assessing exposure to online rape myths, which may be important for informing sexual violence prevention and intervention efforts. (bvsalud.org)

Democrats have slammed Ken Buck, the tea party Republican candidate for Senate in Colorado, for failing to prosecute an alleged rape as district attorney in largely rural Weld County five years ago. (motherjones.com)
Several months ago, then-Senate nominee and Missouri Congressman Todd Akin made a claim that in a legitimate rape a woman's body would "shut the whole thing down. (huffpost.com)

Every campus has a rape crisis center of some kind, with counselors on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (city-journal.org)

But D.A. Schmidt has recently come under fire by some of those officials, after he has previously declined to prosecute hundreds of demonstrators that have been arrested recently in Portland. (kxl.com)

A man who admitted raping a 12-year-old girl has walked free from court. (abovetopsecret.com)
Mays and Richmond are accused of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl in August of 2012. (huffpost.com)

date rape is simply sexual intercourse without consent from all parties. (legalmatch.com)
In many states, sex with a person who is too drunk to give consent is considered date rape. (legalmatch.com)
One of the main areas of contention with date rape is the concept of consent. (legalmatch.com)
Rape laws, which were strengthened in 2009, do not allow any child under the age of 13 to give informed consent about sexual intercourse. (abovetopsecret.com)
The rape charge was brought as it was a part of Law due to the girls age regarding consent. (abovetopsecret.com)

No crime, much less one as serious as rape, has a victimization rate remotely approaching 20 or 25 percent, even over many years," Mac Donald observes. (city-journal.org)
Reported rapes have gone up steadily for several years, we think that's due to growing awareness in society [around what constitutes rape] and the #MeToo movement, and we think it's more about increased motivation to report the crime than actual increase in the crime," Brå research advisor Stina Holmberg told The Local. (thelocal.se)

Going through the trial and having him get out made me feel worse than going through the actual rape, because I had to relive the rape and gruesome details to a court full of strangers," she shared. (upworthy.com)

Majors is facing up to a year behind bars if found guilty on claims being prosecuted by D.A. Alvin Bragg's office. (yahoo.com)

The other side of facts and evidence will actually show you that sometimes the wrong person is accused, incidents can be filed without the knowledge of either party involved, sometimes complaints are filed out of vengeance, some are filed because "all drunk sex is rape", and occasionally, a false report is made. (huffpost.com)

Rape is a very difficult thing to prosecute," he told the Sacramento Bee . (city-journal.org)

Tarhata Brazsal experienced rape and intimate partner violence from her high school boyfriend. (rainn.org)

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